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Doubling Final Consonants

-ing-ed

dripdrippingping

dragdraggingging

starstar ringring

knotknot tingting

thinthin ningning

quitquit tingting

snapsnap pingping

scarscar ringring

knitknit tedted

plugplug gedged

tugtug gedged

mopmoppedped

riprip pedped

chopchoppedped

hisshiss eded

shoppingshopping

sobbingsobbing

clappingclapping

pettingpetting

beggedbegged

The Latin root form means “shapeshape”.

platform

-a usually raised horizontal flat surface; especially : a raised flooring

The Latin root form means “shapeshape”.

uniform

-presenting an unvaried appearance of surface, pattern, or color <uniform red brick houses> - same form as others.

Etymology: Middle French uniforme, from Latin uniformis, from uni- + -formis -form

The Latin root form means “shapeshape”.

transform

-to change the outward form or appearance

Etymology: Middle English, from Latin transformare, from trans- + formare to form

The Latin root form means “shapeshape”.

reform

-to make or change for the better

Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French reformer, from Latin reformare, from re- + formare to form

The Latin root form means “shapeshape”.

inform

-to tell, to give information

Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French enformer, from Latin informare, from in- + forma form

The Latin root sens means “to feelto feel”.

sensation

-a mental process (as seeing, hearing, or smelling)

Etymology: Medieval Latin sensation-, sensatio, from Late Latin, understanding, idea, from Latin sensus

The Latin root sens means “to feelto feel”.

sense

-to feel something

Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French or Latin; Middle Frenchsens sensation, feeling, mechanism of perception,

meaning, from Latin sensus,

The Latin root sens means “to feelto feel”.

sensitive

-easily hurt

Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French sensitif, from Medieval Latin sensitivus,

The Latin root sens means “to feelto feel”.

sensible

-having or showing good sense

Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French, from Latin sensibilis, from sensus,

The Latin root sens means “to feelto feel”.

sensory

-of or relating to sensation or to the senses

The Latin root vac means “emptyempty”.

vacant

-empty

Etymology: Middle English, from Old French, from Latin vacant-, vacans, present participle of vacare to be empty, be free

The Latin root vac means “emptyempty”.

vacation

-a period of rest from an activity

Etymology: Middle English vacacioun, from Middle French vacation, from Latin vacation-, vacatio freedom, exemption, from vacare

The Latin root vac means “emptyempty”.

vacuum

-emptiness of space, a cleaning device

Etymology: Latin, from neuter of vacuus empty, from vacare to be empty

The Latin root vac means “emptyempty”.

evacuate

-to leave, empty, or remove

Etymology: Middle English, to draw off morbid humors, from Latin evacuatus, past participle of evacuare to empty,

from e- + vacuus empty

The Latin root vac means “emptyempty”.

vacate

-to exit

Etymology: Latin vacatus

VocabularyVocabulary

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tidal

The tidal wave destroyed the village.

Having to do with the seaHaving to do with the sea

                       

                          

                                                                   

wreckage

When the tsunami hit, there was a massive amount of wreckage left

behind.

What is left after something is What is left after something is destroyeddestroyed

                       

                          

unconscious

After the surgery, the patient was still unconscious.

Unaware of what is happening

sorrowfully

She looked very sorrowful when her friend had to move to New York.

Full of sadness

                                                      

                                                      

                                        

unfortunate

You might consider yourself unfortunate if you lost the wrestling match.

unlucky

                                                      

                                        

Background KnowledgeThe Big WaveThe Big Wave could have happened in real life, so its genre is realistic could have happened in real life, so its genre is realistic

fiction.fiction. • A small Japanese fishing village is hit by a destructive tidal wave.

•Survivors of a physical disaster is typically followed by an emotional trauma.

•Pearl S. Buck lived at one time in a little Japanese house on a hillside above the sea, overlooking a small fishing village on the beach below it. One summer, a big awave came up and washed the village away. The book, The Big Wave, grew out of her memory of this event. And so, in a way, the story of Jiya and Kino may be said to be a true one.

Purposes for readingPurposes for reading

• As you preview this story’s first few pages, what do you think it has to do with survival?

• What does the title of the story mean?

Videos of tsunami (for background)