Our Ambitious Vocabulary Wall
Welcome to our Ambitious Vocabulary Wall. Here you will be able to see all of the fantastic vocabulary which we have shared, discussed and used each week in each class! We are using this wall to support our language development and to gather wonderful ideas for our writing! Log in each week to see how our word bank is progressing!
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| Acorns/Cherry | admiral - officer rank high up in the Royal Navy furious - really angry squabble - to argue wail - to cry loudly | magnify - to make bigger (as explained by a 3 year old) shaggy - messy like a lion's mane | scrummy - extra yummy observe - to look really closely |
| Damsons | evil - mean / wicked foe - enemy giant - an imaginary or mythical being of human form but superhuman size beckon - to instruct someone to approach or follow usually by making a gesture with the hand | glossy - shiny and smooth refugee - a person who has been forced to leave the country to escape war or persecution empathy - recognising emotions and other people's feelings perspective - the way you see something resurrect - to restore to life | enormous - very large in size equator - a line that goes around the Earth that separates North and South community - people that are living or working together in the same place estimate - roughly calculating or judge the value scampered - run with quick light steps, especially through fear or excitement surprised - feeling or showing surprise delicate - fragile or easily broken promenade - a walkway by the seaside unspeakable - not able to be expressed in words |
| Elders | enormous - very big fairy Tale - a type of story boastful - showing off about one's achievements, possessions or abilities Hanukkah - a Jewish festival | glossy - shiny and smooth refugee - a person who has been forced to leave the country to escape war or persecution jealous - when you want something someone else has colossal - extremely large in size decade - 10 years | canal - a waterway used by boats arachnophobia - an extreme fear of spiders hogging - to keep something and not share brooder - a warm place for chicks to be raised territory - an area of land that is protected or ruled over gnarled - rough and twisted morsel - a small piece or amount of food simmering - just below boiling point while bubbling gently |
| Apples | indignantly - feeling cross because something is unfair exchanging - in maths when you can't take a bigger number away from a smaller number and you need go across to the next column and 'exchange' a larger amount for the equivalent smaller amount e.g. one hundred is the same as ten lots of ten boastful - showing off about one's achievements, possessions or abilities frock - dress | glossy - shiny and smooth refugee - a person who has been forced to leave the country to escape war or persecution shivered - to shake if you are scared or cold nectar - a sweet fluid founds in flowers that encourages pollination pail - a bucket | recommend - to suggest something you like to someone else community - a group of people in the same place supervillain - an evil person with evil super powers consider - to think about something biodegradable - can be decomposed by bacteria or other living organisms fearless - scared and having no fear morsel - a small piece or amount of food plains - large area of land wise - you know a lot and make sensible/good decisions |
| Peach | homonid - word used to describe The Early Stone Age Civilisation ambush - a surprise attack approximate - roughly correct or "a jolly good guess" deflate - to let the air out of something e.g. a balloon | tantalising - to tempt, torment or tease someone conglomerate - consisting of a number of different parts or items ignorant - rude or impolite lumber - move in a slow, heavy, awkward way | photosynthesis - the process by which plants and trees make their own food absorb - to take in and soak up energy or a liquid pollinators - an animal, plant or insect that helps move pollen around sprawl - to sit or lie loosely, spread out ombre - to create a mix of colours through shading gourmet - fine food of connoisseur quality frass - excrement produced by insects myth - an old story that contains ideas about ancient times and worlds lepidoptera - animals that go though metamorphosis |
| Fir | faint - very quiet sound sauntered - walked in a slow, relaxed manner imprisoned - kept in prison or held captive reluctant - when you don't want to do something but usually end up doing it | molecules - a group of atoms stuck together mischievous - showing a fondness for causing trouble in a playful way obscure - strange or abnormal impartial - being able to give a fair opinion, not taking sides in a situation | reconstruct - to build something again that has been damaged or destroyed ambitious - having or showing a strong desire and determination to succeed issued - to supply or distribute (give something out) apprehensive - anxious or fearful that some bad or unpleasant will happen seldom - not often, rarely permanent - lasting or intended to last forever premonition - a strong feeling that something is about to happen, especially something unpleasant giddy - full of excitement smattering - a small amount of something |
| Maple | hollow - something that is empty or has a space inside entice - to tempt or attract alight - to descend from a train, bus, or other form of transport tantalise - make you want something you can't have (torment or tease) | molecules - a group of atoms stuck together assumptions - something that is accepted as truth, without proof oppressive - to treat someone in a cruel and unfair way undoubtedly - without doubt, certain traction - the extent to which an idea becomes popular | amethyst - a precious stone violet in colour manure - animal dung used for fertilizing land churls - a peasant (Anglo-Saxon era) twined - to wind or twist around something right of abode - permission to live somewhere inhabitants - a person or animal that lives in or occupies a place corpse - a dead body ghoul - an evil spirit piratical - to resemble a pirate inquisitive - to ask a lot of questions |
| Palm | indignant - angry or frustrated because something is unfair inhospitable - a harsh and difficult environment to live in dimension - an aspect or feature of a situation instantaneously - immediately, straightaway | toiled - to work extremely hard empathy - the ability to understand and share feelings of another denominator - the number below the line in a fraction flabbergasted - greatly surprised or astonished ovule - part of a flower, which contains the female seed cell | exasperated - intensely irritated and frustrated improvise - create and perform spontaneously or without preparation insubordination - a defiance of authority, refusal to obey bemusement - the fact or condition of being bemused; puzzled extravaganza - a spectacular performance exquisite - extremely beautiful and delicate immaculate - perfectly clean, neat or tidy flamboyant - tending to attract attention because of their confidence discriminated - being treated unfairly or differently |
| Cedar | sagging - sinking under pressure and weight/lack of strength interact - communicate, be involved in something directly frazzled - the feeling of exhaustion or strain orbit - regular or repeated path around an object | toiled - to work extremely hard asylum - the protection given to a person who has left their home country otoscope - a medical device used for looking in people's ears perished - to die, especially in a violent or sudden way germination - the start of growth - e.g. of plants from seeds | detest - to dislike intensely distraught - very upset and worried vivid - producing powerful feelings or strong, clear images in the mind burnished - to be polished myriad - a countless or extremely great number of people or things diddle - to cheat or swindle as to deprive someone of something ostinato - a continually repeated musical phrase or rhyme insoluble - a material that cannot be dissolved |
| Sycamore | brobdingnagian - huge, gigantic (from Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift) flummoxed - confused tyranny - a cruel and oppressive government agitate - make someone troubled or nervous; arouse concern about a cause | imprudent - an unwise or rash decision gargoyle - a grotesque carved human or animal face or figure usually found on the sides of buildings quadragenarian - a person who is between 40 and 49 years old pneumatisation - the presence of air cavities in the bones of birds hypothesis - an idea or explanation for something that is based on known facts but has not yet been proven | colloquialism - a word or phrase that is not formal and used in ordinary familiar conversation idiom - a group of words that have a meaning but the meaning is not clear from the individual words teetotaller - someone who never drinks alcohol aerogel - the lightest material on earth kibbeh - a ball of meat and spices usually eaten in the Middle East Uy Scuti - one of the biggest stars in the universe Gömböc - a shape with a stable side and unstable side schadenfreude - pleasure taken from someone else's misfortune
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| Oak | dual-coding - to use pictures and diagrams alongside words to help us remember information hypothesis - idea or theory made on limited evidence segregation - the action of setting something or someone apart from others recurring - to occur again, repeating | imprudent - an unwise or rash decision amalgamate - to combine or unite to form one structure or organisation squander - to waste in a reckless and foolish manner invalid - a person made weak or disabled by illness or injury persecution - hostility or ill-treatment, especially because of race or religion | bolster - support or strengthen monosyllabic - a word that has only one syllable vehemently - in a forceful, passionate or intense manner contradictory - the be oppositional or behave in an opposite way claustrophobia - extreme or irrational fear of confined places mundane - ordinary or dull xenophobia - a dislike or prejudice against people from other countries beatific - feeling or expressing blissful happiness cremè de la cremè - to be the very best of something grit - a person's courage |