droop
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tall coarse perennial American herb having small white flowers followed by blackish-red berries on long drooping racemes; young fleshy stems are edible; berries and root are poisonous
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Vocabulary lists containing droop
From waterfalls to Jenga towers to cartoon coyotes, this list has words for everything that drops, droops, or topples. For more synonym lists, explore our Say What You Mean resources.
Edge: Level C, Volume 1, Unit 4, Cluster 1. Here are links to the other clusters within Unit 4: "Face Facts: The Science of Facial Expressions" and "Silent Language", "They Speak for Success" and "Breaking the Ice", "My English" and "How I Learned English"
Trees are often compared to people. In a vignette from the novel "The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros, a young narrator believes that four skinny trees are "the only ones who understand me." Here are all the word lists to support the reading of Grade 12 Unit 1's texts from SpringBoard's Common Core ELA series: My Papa's Waltz, in just-, The Last Word, Mushrooms, I Remember, Invisible Man, Four Skinny Trees, Dirty Work, On Seeing England for the First Time, Speaking with Hands, The White Man's Burden, The Poor Man's Burden, Shooting an Elephant, Lindo Jong: Double Face, Stranger in the Village