Unit 1: Lesson 3

This list features words from "The Making of a Book" and "Portraying Portraits" (both are informational texts).

Here are all the word lists to support the reading of Grade 6, Unit 1's texts from HMH's Scope and Sequence series: Lesson 1, Lesson 2, Lesson 3, Lesson 4, Lesson 5

Here are links to all the 2014 Journeys units: Unit 1, Unit 2, Unit 3, Unit 4, Unit 5, Unit 6
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  1. painstaking
    characterized by extreme care and great effort
  2. explode
    burst and release energy as through a violent reaction
  3. submit
    refer for judgment or consideration
  4. negotiation
    a discussion intended to produce an agreement
  5. collaborate
    work together on a common enterprise or project
  6. repetitive
    characterized by doing or performing again
  7. appealing
    able to attract interest or draw favorable attention
  8. complement
    something added to embellish or make perfect
  9. appropriate
    suitable for a particular person, place, or situation
  10. impaired
    mentally or physically unfit
  11. edit
    prepare for publication or presentation by revising
  12. marketing
    the commercial processes in promoting and selling something
  13. domain
    territory over which rule or control is exercised
  14. publicize
    make known to people as a whole
  15. bountiful
    producing in abundance
  16. aloof
    distant, cold, or detached in manner
  17. adjoin
    lie next to another or share a boundary
  18. taut
    pulled or drawn tight
  19. turquoise
    a shade of blue tinged with green
Created on Thu May 12 18:26:35 EDT 2016 (updated Fri May 13 14:17:01 EDT 2016)

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