Unit 4: Lesson 20

This list features words from "Bodies from the Ash: Life and Death in Ancient Pompeii" and "Since Vesuvius" (both are informational texts).

Here are all the word lists to support the reading of Grade 6, Unit 4's texts from HMH's Scope and Sequence series: Lesson 16, Lesson 17, Lesson 18, Lesson 19, Lesson 20, A Wrinkle in Time

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. tremor
    a small earthquake
  2. subject
    cause to experience or suffer or make vulnerable to
  3. dormant
    inactive but capable of becoming active
  4. salvage
    save from ruin, destruction, or harm
  5. unaffected
    undergoing no change when acted upon
  6. opulent
    rich and superior in quality
  7. meager
    deficient in amount or quality or extent
  8. luxurious
    rich and superior in quality
  9. imprint
    an impression produced by pressure
  10. crust
    the outer layer of the Earth
  11. igneous
    produced by the action of fire or intense heat
  12. landslide
    the descent of a large mass of dirt and rock down a slope
  13. sediment
    matter that has been deposited by some natural process
  14. seismic
    subject to or caused by an earthquake or earth vibration
  15. exterminate
    kill on a large scale
  16. interrupt
    make a break in
  17. intermediate
    lying between two extremes in time, space, or state
  18. intercept
    seize, interrupt, or stop something on its way
  19. disproportion
    imbalance among the parts of something
Created on Fri May 13 11:38:25 EDT 2016 (updated Fri May 13 15:49:26 EDT 2016)

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