Unit 4: Week 5

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  1. bluish
    of the color intermediate between green and violet
    I ran a garden hose on my feet and bluish ankles, and a chill ran up my back.
  2. cartwheel
    acrobatic revolutions with the body turned sideways and the arms and legs outstretched like the spokes of a wheel
    That Saturday, I went to Isaac's house where I ate plums and sat under an aluminum arbor watching my cousin, dressed in gymnastics shorts and top, do spindly cartwheels and back flips in his backyard while he instructed, "This is the correct way."
  3. gymnastics
    a sport involving acrobatic feats on different apparatuses
    For three days of my eleventh summer I listened to my mother yap about my cousin, Isaac, who was taking gymnastics.
  4. hesitation
    the act of pausing uncertainly
    I dipped my hands in flour to keep them dry and went back outside to do cartwheels and, finally, after much hesitation, a back flip that nearly cost me my life when I landed on my head.
  5. limelight
    a focus of public attention
    My cousin was a show-off, but I figured he was allowed the limelight before one appreciative dog who had come over to look.
  6. skid
    slide without control
    A friend skidded to a stop on his bike, one cheek fat with sunflower seeds.
  7. somersault
    do a somersault
    I was jealous because I had watched my share of Wide World of Sports and knew that people admired an athlete would could somersault without hurting himself.
  8. throbbing
    pounding or beating strongly or violently
    When one kid asked why I had white powder on my hands and in my hair, I gave up on Chinese checkers and returned home, my feet throbbing.
  9. wince
    draw back, as with fear or pain
    I pushed my feet into them, tugging and wincing because they were too small.
  10. conclusion
    a position or opinion reached after consideration
    A conclusion is a reasonable decision you make after you think about the facts or details you read.
  11. suffix
    a linguistic element that is added at the end of the word
    A suffix is a syllable added to the end of a root word that changes the root word's meaning.
  12. autobiography
    a book or account of your own life
    Autobiography is the story of a person's life or of major events in it, told by the person who lived it.
Created on Fri Jul 17 08:04:37 EDT 2020 (updated Mon Jul 20 15:50:30 EDT 2020)

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