Everything you need to know for Year 5 English in one book. Become the first ten-year-old to run an environmental campaign, or to write a critical essay on hyperbole, or to revolutionise the use of parentheses in poetry. This book covers vocabulary, grammar, punctuation, spelling, reading comprehension, writing, and more! This is not your average English workbook. Become the next child prodigy.Ages 9-10 Synonyms of disseminate include broadcast, disperse, and promulgate. Of these, to broadcast, to spread abroad, make widely known, is closest in meaning to disseminate. To disperse may mean to move or scatter in different directions, as the crowd dispersed; to send or drive off in different directions, as the police dispersed the crowd; or, like disseminate, to spread abroad or about, distribute, as to disperse heat or a disease dispersed throughout the city. To promulgate (pro-MUHL-gayt or PRAHM-ul-gayt) means to make known formally or officially, publish, proclaim, as to promulgate a new policy of amnesty, or to teach publicly, advocate openly, as to promulgate the doctrine of nonviolence. Synonyms of grandiose include pretentious, highflown, ostentatious (AH-sten- TAY-shus), bombastic (bahm-BAS-tik), grandiloquent (gran-DIL-uh-kwint), and turgid (TUR-jid). Synonyms of emaciated include scrawny, gaunt, shrunken, skeletal, haggard, malnourished, rawboned, and wizened (WIZ-und). Antonyms include obese, portly, rotund, corpulent (word 39 of Level 4), and pursy (PUR-see), which means short-winded from being overweight; hence, fat. Word Tag ® unites learning and fun through gameplay by immersing kids in an open-world adventure where they are able to interact with over 1000 words per year, personalized to their individual learning level. Word Tag ® is designed so kids learn new vocabulary as they earn rewards.

One last example: Though it may be a mental workout to decide when to write the two words “work out” versus the single word, “workout,” you now have the tools necessary to work out the right answer every time. To grovel (GRAH-vul or GRUH-vul), from Middle English and Old Norse words meaning facedown, prone, is to lie or crawl with one's face down. Because, in days of yore, this position was assumed to show humility and obedience before a noble person or one's superiors, grovel came to be used figuratively to mean to humble oneself out of loyalty, remorse, or fear. Varied or diverse in an interesting way; selecting, or consisting of selections, from a variety of sources, especially the best of those sources. Not confined to any one model or system, says The Century Dictionary, but selecting and appropriating whatever is considered best in all. Moving to the other side of “work out or workout,” the phrase “work out” has several meanings, and is a phrasal verb of the word “work.” Here is each definition of “work out,” paired with example sentences to show correct usage.Notice how “workout” here indicates a session of strenuous exercise ( in this case for the brain), and “work out” in this context means to figure out and resolve. Just remember: when you’re trying to figure out whether to use “work out” or “workout,” the easiest way to decide is to ask: “Am I talking about a timed period of intense exercise, like a 30-minute cycling circuit?” If so, that is a noun or thing, so use the single word, “workout.” If not, you’ll need the two words, “work out.” Start boosting younger kids’ vocabulary with our Epic Life duo of illustrated vocabulary books, which cover everything from emotions to technology. You can use these alongside our Mrs Wordsmith's 37 House Rules printable vocabulary worksheets, which were designed to help develop emotional intelligence. Once your kids master these words, move on to our Storyteller's Word a Day books: huge collections of illustrated words and easy-to-access information on word pairs, usage in literature, and examples. Depravity began as the shorter word pravity, which came to English in the 16th century through Middle French pravité from the Latin pr a vit a s, crookedness, irregularity, deformity. The prefix de-, which has several meanings, was added by the mid-17th century and in this instance means completely, thoroughly, to the bottom or core, as in denude (di-N[Y]OOD), to strip completely, make bare; despoil (di-SPOYL), to take all the spoils, and thus to rob, plunder, pillage; and deliquesce (DEL-i- KWES), to melt away completely, dissolve.

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Ex2a: Though the lesson was very confusing at first, it all worked outin the end because the students who understood the concept helped teach the kids who were still struggling to learn it. Flashy suggests sparkling or brilliant showiness that is momentary or superficial: flashy piano playing; flashy travel destinations like Las Vegas. Both the adjective consummate and the verb to consummate (KAHN-suh-mayt), to complete, fulfill, come from the Latin consummāre, to complete, form a whole, bring to perfection. You can consummate a business deal, complete it, or consummate a vision or goal, fulfill it. You can also consummate a marriage by having sexual intercourse, which symbolically completes or fulfills the union. Voracious may be used either literally, of great physical hunger, or figuratively, either of a great appetite for intellectual or emotional nourishment or of an excessive eagerness or greed for something. A voracious reader is an extremely avid reader; a voracious lover is one whose appetite for erotic pleasure cannot be satisfied; a voracious look is a hungry, desirous, and perhaps predatory look. Varied or diverse in an interesting way; selecting, or consisting of selections, from a variety of sources, especially the best of those sources. "Not confined to any one model or system," says The Century Dictionary, "but selecting and appropriating whatever is considered best in all."