5th Grade Vocabulary Words - List 18
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| Word | Definition | Practice Sentence | Synonyms | Antonyms | Part of Speech Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| industrious | Habitually occupied. | She's an industrious worker and will be very successful. | hardworking, diligent, productive | inactive, lazy, idle | Adjective |
| foreshadow | Show or warn beforehand. | The movie score helped to foreshadow the jump scare. | predict, foretell, portend | Verb | |
| lonely | Feeling friendless; without company. | I made a plan to visit my sister because I was feeling lonely. | alone, isolated, solitary | Adjective | |
| select | Choose from a group as the most suitable. | Select a book from the shelf to take home and read. | decide, pick, elect | reject | Verb |
| hungry | Feeling the need for food. | She studied the fresh pastries with a hungry look on her face. | starved, ravenous, famished | stuffed, full | Adjective |
| inherit | Gain something as an heir after someone's death. | He's going to inherit the family business. | take over, acquire, obtain | Verb | |
| lucky | Bringing or having good luck. | I'm so lucky to have you as a friend. | fortunate, opportune, advantageous | unlucky, unfortunate | Adjective |
| ratio | The relationship in size or amount between two or more things. | I don't like this peanut butter cup's ratio of chocolate to peanut butter. | percentage, proportion | Noun | |
| rebellion | An act of resistance or opposition to authority. | He dyed his hair black as an act of rebellion. | disobedience, uprising, dissent | obedience, submission | Noun |
| cruel | Causing suffering without remorse. | He upset his family by making a cruel joke. | vicious, brutal, pitiless | compassionate | Adjective |
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