6th Grade Project - Words

1. Antonyms – up : down

2. Synonyms – great : wonderful

3. Part : whole – trunk : tree

4. whole :part – school : classroom

5. tool : its action – crayon : draw

6. tool user : tool – carpenter : hammer

7. tool: object it’s used with – hammer : nails

8. category : example – dog : Golden Retriever

9. effect : cause – flood : rain

10. cause: effect – practice : improve

11. increasing intensity – unhappiness ; misery

12. decreasing intensity – hot : warm

13. action : thing acted upon – read : book

14. action: subject performing action – teach : teacher

15. object or place : its user – chalk : teacher

16. noun: closely related adjective – elephant : enormous


alight

(v.) to get down from, step down from; to come down from the air, land; (adj.) lighted up
To light up; to burn
To happen upon something accidentally

cow
to frighten with threats, violence, etc.; intimidate; overawe.
older female (usually after calving)

dapper
neatly and stylishly dressed (usually a man)

flail
To strike out or swing wildly; to thrash about.

an instrument for threshing grain

foppish
(of a man) concerned with his clothes and appearance in an affected and excessive way.

founder
to sink, fail, collapse;
a person who casts metal, glass, etc.;
a person who establishes a company, society, etc.

furrow
n. a trench in the earth made by a plow; a wrinkle

genesis
beginning; origin; first book of the Bible

glean
to collect bit by bit; to gather with patient labor

helm
At the head of a ship;
Wheel used for steering

huckster
a person who sells small items, either door-to-door or from a stall or small store

mountebank
A swindler; a charlatan; a trickster

myriad
a countless or extremely great number

nucleus
Control center of the cell; contains DNA

outlandish
Looking or sounding bizarre or unfamiliar;
strange, freakish, weird, foreign-looking

pantomime
A performance using gestures and body movements without words

priggish (prig)
a person who displays or demands of others pointlessly precise conformity, fussiness about trivialities, or exaggerated propriety, especially in a self-righteous or irritating manner; prude

sinew
lean and muscular;
strong tissue that connects muscles to bones

spawn
to bring forth; to produce a large number;
offspring
of or relating to the spawning of a character or item in a video game: a spawn point;

staccato
Detached or disconnected in sound or style;

marked by abrupt, clear-cut sounds

straddle
to come down on both sides of an issue;
sit or stand with one leg on either side of

straitlaced
extremely strict in regard to moral standards and conduct
to bind, confine, or restrain with or as if with laces.

unbridled
uncontrolled, lacking in restraint

vacillate
To sway physically; to be indecisive

wellspring
The source; a source or supply of anything, especially when considered inexhaustible





Air pressure= The definition of air pressure is the force exerted onto a surface by the weight of the air

Weather= the state of the atmosphere at a place and time as regards heat, dryness, sunshine, wind, rain, etc.

Climate= the weather conditions prevailing in an area in general or over a long time.

Wind= the perceptible natural movement of the air, especially in the form of a current of air blowing from a particular direction.

Cloud= a visible mass of condensed water vapor floating in the atmosphere, typically high above the ground.

Energy= the strength and vitality required for sustained physical or mental activity.

Humidity= a quantity representing the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere or gas.

Condensation=water that collects as droplets on a cold surface when humid air is in contact with it.

Evaporation= the process of turning from the liquid into vapor.

Precipitation= rain, snow, sleet, or hail that falls to the ground.

Air mass= a body of air with horizontally uniform temperature, humidity, and pressure.

Rain shadow= a region having little rainfall because it is sheltered from prevailing rain-bearing winds by a range of hills.

Ocean Current= An ocean current is a seasonal directed movement of seawater generated by forces acting upon this mean flow, such as breaking waves, wind, the Coriolis effect, temperature and salinity differences, while tides are caused by the gravitational of the Sun and Moon.

Oceanic= relating to the ocean.

Circulation= movement to and fro or around something, especially that of fluid in a closed system.

Heat reservoir= A heat reservoir is a constant temperature heat source or sink. Because the temperature is uniform, there is no heat transfer across a finite temperature difference, and the heat exchange is reversible.

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