Grade 5 · List 5 of 5 · 39 words

Long academic words

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The words

  • adventure
  • ancient
  • journey
  • discover
  • separate
  • necessary
  • temperature
  • knowledge
  • mysterious
  • celebrate
  • excitement
  • experiment
  • extraordinary
  • opportunity
  • environment
  • festival
  • tomorrow
  • experience
  • interesting
  • community
  • conversation
  • mathematics
  • independent
  • appreciate
  • communicate
  • vocabulary
  • particular
  • scientific
  • laboratory
  • encyclopedia
  • responsibility
  • organization
  • possibility
  • approximately
  • punctuation
  • calculator

Tricky words to learn by heart

These come up alongside this pattern but don't follow it.

  • shoulder
  • soldier
  • vegetable

In a sentence

  • adventure: Our dragon friend and I went on a great adventure today.
  • ancient: We found an ancient map hidden inside the old castle wall.
  • journey: We began a long journey through the magic forest.
  • discover: Can you discover the hidden door in the garden?
  • separate: Please separate the red gems from the blue ones.
  • necessary: It is necessary to bring a map on the quest.

Mistakes to watch for

For grown-ups helping at home: these are the kinds of slips this pattern tends to bring.

WordOften written as
adventureadventur, advencher
ancientanshent, ancent
journeyjurney, journy
discoverdicover, discuver
separateseperate, separat

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