Thanksgiving Word List

Christine B.
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  1. Thanksgiving
    fourth Thursday in November in the United States
  2. turkey
    large gallinaceous bird with fan-shaped tail
  3. gobble
    eat hastily without proper chewing
  4. gravy
    a sauce made by adding stock, flour, or other ingredients to the juice and fat that drips from cooking meats
  5. stuffing
    padding put in mattresses and cushions and upholstered furniture
  6. potato
    an edible tuber native to South America
  7. cranberry
    any of numerous shrubs of genus Vaccinium bearing cranberries
  8. cook
    transform by heating
  9. food
    any substance that can be metabolized by an animal
  10. family
    a group of people related to one another
  11. friend
    a person you know well and regard with affection and trust
  12. relative
    not absolute or complete
  13. football
    a team sport played with an oval or round ball
  14. game
    an amusement or pastime
  15. watch
    look attentively
  16. parade
    a ceremonial procession including people marching
  17. float
    be on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom
  18. celebrate
    have a festivity
  19. Pilgrim
    one of the colonists from England who sailed to America on the Mayflower and founded the colony of Plymouth in New England in 1620
  20. Indian
    of or relating to or characteristic of India or the East Indies or their peoples or languages or cultures
  21. first
    preceding all others in time or space or degree
  22. thankful
    feeling or showing gratitude
  23. feast
    a ceremonial dinner party for many people
  24. share
    assets belonging to an individual person or group
  25. help
    give assistance; be of service
  26. beads
    several beads threaded together on a string
  27. fish
    any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates
  28. feather
    a light growth that makes up the covering of a bird's body
  29. canoe
    a small, light boat propelled with a paddle
  30. pumpkin pie
    pie made of mashed pumpkin and milk and eggs and sugar
  31. together
    in contact with each other or in proximity
Created on Thu Jul 28 11:12:22 EDT 2011

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