Collection 4: Texts About Wild Animals

As you compare USA Today's editorial "Wild Animals Aren't Pets" and Zuzana Kukol's commentary "Let People Own Exotic Animals," learn this word list. Here are links to lists for texts in Grade 6's Collection 4: My Wonder Horse, texts about wild animals, Eleven, poems about being an American
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  1. yen
    a desire for something or to do something
  2. exotic
    characteristic of another place or part of the world
  3. dictate
    determine, order, or control how something is done
  4. transfixed
    having your attention fixated as though witchcraft
  5. maim
    injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration
  6. intervene
    get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action
  7. lax
    without rigor or strictness
  8. exempt
    grant relief from a rule or requirement to
  9. menagerie
    a collection of live animals for study or display
  10. expire
    lose validity
  11. typical
    exhibiting the qualities that identify a group or kind
  12. regulate
    bring into conformity with rules, principles, or usage
  13. commercial
    connected with or engaged in the exchange of goods
  14. extinct
    no longer in existence
  15. deranged
    driven insane
Created on Sun Jul 13 17:15:19 EDT 2014 (updated Thu Jul 24 11:38:23 EDT 2014)

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