VocabularyVocabulary

5th grade lesson 4

To agree to something he or she once refused

If you want to play outside instead of doing homework, but your mom makes you read inside for 30 minutes, you have relented.

relented

When something bothers or confuses you

It didn’t even faze me when my brother made fun of my new haircut.

faze

An eccentric person has habits or opinions that seem odd to other people.

The old man seemed eccentric because he never left his house during the day.

eccentriceccentric

To feel extremely angry

When my sister blamed me for the broken window, I was infuriated because I didn’t do it.

infuriatedinfuriated

If you are disheartened, you feel disappointed and less hopeful.

After making a bad grade on my Social Studies test, I felt disheartened because I studied for a long time.

disheartened

A road or a path that is impassable is impossible to travel on.

After the storm, Hwy. 52 became impassable because of a fallen tree.

impassable

crusaded

A person who has crusaded has worked hard to make a change based on his or her beliefs.

The brave young girl crusaded for more cancer research by starting a lemonade stand in her neighborhood.