Vocabulary Words - Fifth Grade - O:

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• observe
  (v.) To see or notice something.
  
  
• occupy
  (v.) To live, work, or stay in a particular place.
  
  
• occur
  (v.) To take place or happen.
  
  
• official
  (n.) Someone who is in a position of authority.
  (adj.) Formally or publicly done.
  (n.) Someone who enforces the rules.
  
  
• Olympics
  (n.) International athletic events held every four years.
  
  
• online
  (adj.) Using the Internet.
  
  
• operator
  (n.) A person who works with a kind of equipment; a person who helps with telephone calls.
  
  
• opponent
  (n.) Someone you compete against in a competition or fight.
  
  
• option
  (n.) Choice, selection.
  
  
• ornament
  (n.) An object used for decoration.
  (v.) To decorate.
  
  
• outward
  (adj.) Having to do with the outside and not the inside.
  
  
• overflow
  (v.) When a container cannot carry everything being put into it.
  (n.) When there is not enough room or space to contain something.
  
  
• owner
  (n.) A person or business who owns something.
  
  
• oxygen
  (n.) A gas in the air that most plants and animals need to live.
  
  

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