GRADE: 5
Grade 5
1. plaza
2. stoke
3. luminous
4. cape
5. pluck
WORDMASTERS 2016 – 2017
MEET: 2
Meet 1 Definitions
-noun
1. a public square, marketplace, or similar open
space in a built-up area.
2. a shopping center.
Synonyms: square, yard, mall
-verb (used with object)
1. to add coal or fuel to a fire, furnace or boiler.
Their enemy thwarted their plans to attack.
2. to encourage or incite
The singer stoked the crowd by waving to his fans.
3. to excite or thrill
Antonyms: squelch
-adjective (stoked)
1. excited
I was stoked when I found out I had made the
team.
-adjective
1. Radiating or reflecting light; shining; bright.
2. Lighted up or illuminated; well-lighted: We
walked out of the dark into the luminous hall.
3. brilliant intellectually; enlightened, enlightening
4. clear; easy to understand.
She gave a luminous report.
Synonyms: bright, shining, radiant
-noun
1. a sleeveless piece of clothing wrapped over
shoulders and used like a coat. Darth Vader’s cape
billowed behind him.
2. a piece of land jutting into the sea or body of
water.
Synonym: promontory, peninsula
-verb (used with object)
1. to pull out or off, like a fruit, flower or feathers:
I plucked a rose from the bush.
2. to pull to sound the strings of a musical
instrument: The musician plucked the harp
strings.
-noun
1. a tug.
2. the heart, liver and lungs of an animal, used for
food.
3. courage or resolution during difficulties: She
showed enough pluck to keep working even when
her studies were tough.
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GRADE: 5
6. brackish
7. jetty
8. engulf
9. radiant
10. quagmire
11. extract
WORDMASTERS 2016 – 2017
MEET: 2
-adjective
1. having a slightly salty or briny flavor.
2. distasteful, unpleasant.
Synonyms: briny
-noun
1. a structure of large stones or piles that project
into a sea to protect a harbor.
2. a wharf or landing pier.
-adjective
1. looking like jet: a deep black color.
-verb (used with object)
1. to swallow up in or submerge: The flooded
river engulfed the small town.
2. to plunge or immerse: He engulfed himself in
his studies.
Synonyms: to deluge, to inundate, to bury
-adjective
1. shining, bright: The sun looks radiant today.
2. bright with joy, hope: She has a radiant future.
3. (science) made by radiation.
Synonyms: luminous
-noun
1. a point from which rays go out.
2. a point in outer space from which meteors go
out.
-noun
1. an area of boggy ground or wetlands where the
ground gives way if walked upon.
2. a situation that is very difficult to get out of.
3. anything soft or flabby.
-verb (used with object)
1. to get, pull, or draw out, usually with special
effort, skill or force: The dentist extracted the
tooth.
2. to interpret or understand a certain way.
3. to obtain (pleasure, comfort): She extracted
pleasure from the applause.
4. to take or copy out from a book. He extracted a
passage from a famous book to write in his essay.
3. to get secrets or information, often through
pressure: She extracted a secret from her brother.
4. to separate or take out (juice, ingredient): He
extracted the juice from the oranges.
-noun
1. a passage taken from a book or article: The
extract of Harry Potter was in the newspaper
2. a substance taken from a plant, drug or such:
The recipe calls for vanilla extract.
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GRADE: 5
12. briny
13. plume
14. brood
15. headstrong
16. estuary
17. incite
18. sullen
WORDMASTERS 2016 – 2017
MEET: 2
-adjective
1. salty: The wind lifted a briny spray off the sea
as we sailed along the coast.
Synonyms: brackish
-noun
1. a feather or a group of feathers.
She wore a blue plume in her hat.
2. a moving or rising line of smoke or water: A
plume of smoke rose from the chimney.
3. rising magma inside the earth’s mantle.
-verb (used with object)
1. to decorate with feathers.
2. (a bird) to preen (itself).
3. to feel satisfied with oneself: She stared at
herself in the mirror, pluming herself upon her
beauty.
-noun
1. a number of babies born or hatched at the
same time.
2. a breed or species, group, kind.
Synonyms: clutch
-verb (used with object)
1. to sit upon to hatch, to warm and protect.
2. to think moodily about something. He brooded
over the insult of his classmate.
-adjective
1. withered; shriveled: a wizened old determined
to have one’s own way, willful, stubborn:
The little girl was so headstrong that she would
not move until her father did what she wanted.
-noun
1. the mouth of a large river; where the river
meets the sea.
Synonyms: mouth (of a river), delta
-verb (used with object)
1. to encourage, stir up or persuade to act in a
violent or unlawful way: His insulting comments
incited a fight in the crowd.
-adjective
1. showing irritation by a gloomy silence or
reserve.
2. gloomy or dismal, as weather or a sound.
3. sluggish, as a stream.
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GRADE: 5
19. façade
20. ignite
21. lackluster
22. cove
23. whet
24. alley
25. undulate
WORDMASTERS 2016 – 2017
MEET: 2
-noun
1. the face of a building, especially the front that
faces a street. The façade of the Memorial Building
shows large pillars and stairs.
2. an outward appearance to hide a less pleasant
reality: Although she showed a confident façade,
she was actually quite anxious.
-verb (used with object)
1. to catch fire or cause to catch fire.
2. to arouse or inflame (an emotion or situation):
The speech ignited the crowd’s enthusiasm.
-adjective
1. without vitality, force or conviction; uninspired
or uninspiring. The lackluster presentation put
everyone to sleep.
2. (of hair or eyes) not shining, dull: Her
lackluster eyes showed her exhaustion.
Synonyms: boring, humdrum, colorless
Antonyms: interesting, spirited, shiny
-noun
1. a small, sheltered bay.
2. an arched structure in a building.
-noun
-verb (used with object)
1. to sharpen the blade of a tool or weapon. She
whetted the machete on the stone.
2. to make eager; stimulate: The smell of the
cookies whet my appetite.
-noun
1. something that whets; an appetizer or drink.
-noun
1. a passage between continuous houses or
buildings from the street to a yard, other street,
etc.
2. a narrow backstreet.
3. (bowling) a wooden lane where the ball is
rolled.
-verb
1. to move in a wavelike manner. The flag
undulates in the breeze.
2. to have a wavy form or surface.
3. (of a sound) to rise and fall in pitch
Synonyms: to wave
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GRADE: 5
WORDMASTERS 2016 – 2017
5
MEET: 2