California Vocabulary List Grade 3

Unit 1 Lesson 3 "Good-bye, 382 Shin Dang Dong"

Unit 1 Lesson 1 "Rugby & Rosie"

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chores

mood

affection

patient

bother

ignore

moped

worried

whined

energy

nervous

commands

trainers

Unit 1 Lesson 2 "The Legend of Damon and Pythias"

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assure

farewell

thoughtfulness

pastel

ripest

glum

plumpest

enthusiastic

brightened

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peculiar

streaked

insisted

picturing

sacrifice

possessions

adopt gathered

especially

graduate

cruel

rule

permission

graduation

rebel

appointed

monsoon

grateful

persuaded

resist

foreign

harness

curious

severe

translation

exchanged

heartbroken

condition

certain

deserted

astonished

struggled

bargain

faith miserable

October 10, 2008

California Vocabulary List Grade 3

Unit 1 Lesson 4 "Beauty and the Beast"

Unit 1 Lesson 5 "Teammates"

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magnificent

jealous

kindness

tremendous

prejudice

peer pressure

mercy

misfortune

leagues

apathetic

flattered

dawn

challenge

treated

clung

host

complete

opportunity

willingly

blooming

possess

opposing

timidly

pale

series

organizations

sighed

grief

responded

provoked

despair

suffer

splendor

equal standard

merchant

October 10, 2008

California Vocabulary List Grade 3

Unit 2 Lesson 1 "One Small Place in a Tree"

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except

suppose

shelter

glimpse

bore

maze

actually

tunnels

line

hollow

fungi

stored

colony

dwellers

grubs

swarming

roost

chambers bacteria

Unit 2 Lesson 3 "Wolf Island"

Unit 2 Lesson 2 "Make Way for Ducklings"

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male

meadows

wildlife

female

several

drift

depended

aboard

raft

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mainland

boards

mild

collected

strange

pond

environment

layer

remained

enormous

flapped

gnawed

drifts

delighted

waddled

balance

horrid

suited

population

responsibility

dither

bringing up

cozy

satisfied

settled down

opposite

molt

beckoned hatch

October 10, 2008

California Vocabulary List Grade 3

Unit 2 Lesson 4 "Two Days in May"

Unit 2 Lesson 5 "Crinkleroot's Guide to Knowing Animal Habitats"

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protest

hooves

protect

habitats

surface

ecosystem

relocates

solemnly

rich

moist

stranded

territory

variety

swamps

exclaimed

announced

patch

shallow

sharp

surrounding

migrating

provide

detect

anxiously

cautiously

city limits

appreciate

grazed

extended fawns

vast

plains

recognize

ledges

predator

explorer

prey species

October 10, 2008

California Vocabulary List Grade 3

Unit 3 Lesson 3 "Lemons and Lemonade"

Unit 3 Lesson 1 "It's a Deal!"

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deal

marbles

ancient

hoes

valuable

stamped

Concept Vocabulary Words worth

Unit 3 Lesson 2 "The Go-Around Dollar"

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stack

stand

benefit

balance

completely

supply

break

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product

expanded

competition

proud

currency

profit

customer

expenses

sold out

solution

worth

mark

honesty

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kingdom

trusted

circulation

nation

eventually

barter

portrait

design

forms

notes

formula

weighs

terms

traders

official

pyramid

demand

goods

remains

symbol

scarcity

inspect

presses

seal

serial numbers

debts

legal tender

partners

counterfeit emblem

October 10, 2008

California Vocabulary List Grade 3

Unit 3 Lesson 4 "Madam C.J. Walker: Self-Made Millionaire"

Unit 3 Lesson 5 "Uncle Jed's Barbershop"

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hired

freely

consumer

lathered

relative

savings

managed

causes

shack

barber

millionaire

warned

unconscious

lotion

charged

supervising

bundled

hitched

wealth

lawyers

failing

examine

donated

civil rights

disappointed

delayed

ingredients

segregated

stations

Great Depression

factory

agents

county

operation

secretary sued

equipment segregation

October 10, 2008

California Vocabulary List Grade 3

Unit 4 Lesson 1 "Sun"

Unit 4 Lesson 3 "The Moon Seems to Change"

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bursts

patches

astronomy

waxing

half

cycle

slightly

soaked

waning

lighting

oval

gases

silver

path

tilted

helium

usually

side

degrees

Celsius

occur

month

telescopes

Fahrenheit

full moon

midnight

devices

filters

quarter moon

east

orbit

axis

crescent moon

west

Unit 4 Lesson 2 "Grandmother Spider Brings the Sun" Selection Vocabulary Words

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horizon

directions

gathered

constellation

solar system

trickster

timid

sneak

struggled

bushy

stormed

squinty

soared

ringed

bald

clay

crackled

guards

chant

new moon phases

tight rays

October 10, 2008

California Vocabulary List Grade 3

Unit 4 Lesson 4 "Journey to the Moon“

Unit 4 Lesson 5 "Earth: Our Planet in Space"

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gigantic

mounted

mounted

desolation

layer

universe

pressure

desolation

stark

revolution

astronaut

stark

quarantine

broil

commander

quarantine

accomplished

vegetation

orbit

accomplished

missions

dwarf planet

gravity

missions

module

orbit

experiments

module

oxygen

magnetic field

launch

oxygen

temperatures

radiation

technology

atmosphere

engineers

aurora

October 10, 2008

California Vocabulary List Grade 3

Unit 5 Lesson 1 "The House on Maple Street"

Unit 5 Lesson 3 "Earthquake! The 1906 San Francisco Nightmare"

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fierce

alarm

transform

clerk

burst

community

sturdy

trembled

rumble

gas

stump

den

shattered

earthquake

tracks

remained

exactly

power lines

burrows

admire

damaged

shock waves

trickle

tepees

tough

tectonic plates

crumbling

arrowhead

section

aftershocks

treasures

carpenters

settlers masons

Unit 5 Lesson 2 "Days of Digging" Selection Vocabulary Words

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beats

site

relic

charted

boiled

unearth

thrilling

challenge

research

developed

creative

dig

excavation

laboratory

artifacts

customs

cultures

crust

mantle

faults frames

ruin origins

October 10, 2008

California Vocabulary List Grade 3

Unit 5 Lesson 4 "The Disappearing Island"

Unit 5 Lesson 5 "What Ever Happened to the Baxter Place?"

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voyage

foam

property

produce

partial

development

sheltered

waded

seasonal

elevated

ripples

century

particular

practically

claim

adjust

livelihood

reluctantly

toppled

stroked

necessities

ambitions

tide

bow

installed

profitable

eroding

foundation

featuring

crops

acres

horizon

discount

surplus

automatic buoys

expire lease

October 10, 2008

California Vocabulary List Grade 3

Unit 6 Lesson 1 "Tomas and the Library Lady"

Unit 6 Lesson 3 "Pueblo Storyteller"

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gulps

rusty

imagination

modern

natural

history

cot

finally

figures

works

howling

shared

pure

kneads

lap

downtown

modeling

treasured

setting

jumped

concentrate

contain

borrow

pile

pueblo

generations

eager

dump

traditions

mesa

package

iron

ancestors

kiln

jungle desert

Unit 6 Lesson 2 "Storm in the Night"

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streaming

mandarin

experiences

mantel

faucet

cylinder

siren

brandishing

elements

scarcely

bolt

drenched

bough

brave

clap

errand

flickers

scowling

mutterings

overcome natural

October 10, 2008

California Vocabulary List Grade 3

Unit 6 Lesson 4 "Johnny Appleseed"

Unit 6 Lesson 5 "McBroom and the Big Wind"

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stored

inspired

chronicle

deny

draft

cleared

settlers

common

raged

survived

invaded

shingle

sigh

boasted

grieved

barge

gazed

exhausted

recollections

battered

precious

affectionately

recalled

gust

pluck

absences

penetrate

huddled

funnel

exaggerated

certain

haste

hibernate

maintained claim

Concept Vocabulary Words humor

tuckered calculate

October 10, 2008