Vocabulary Words - Fifth Grade - S:

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• sacrifice
  (v.) To give up something to help someone.
  (n.) Something given up to help someone else.
  
  
• salsa
  (n.) Latin American dance and music.
  (n.) A type of tomato-based sauce eaten with tortilla chips.
  
  
• sample
  (n.) A small amount of something that shows you what it will be like.
  (v.) To test something to see if you will like it.
  
  
• sandwich
  (n.) A food item consisting of meat, cheese, and/or vegetables between two pieces of bread.
  
  
• sausage
  (n.) A tube-shaped piece of meat.
  
  
• scold
  (v.) To lecture or criticize someone.
  
  
• scuff
  (v.) To become rough or scratched.
  
  
• seawater
  (n.) Water from the sea.
  
  
• section
  (n.) An area or part of something.
  
  
• seek
  (v.) To look for something.
  
  
• seldom
  (adv.) Rarely.
  
  
• selfish
  (adj.) Being primarily concerned with one's own needs and wants.
  
  
• servant
  (n.) Someone who works in someone else's house, cleaning, cooking, etc..
  
  
• setting
  (n.) The location and environment of a story or situation.
  (v.) Present participle of set.
  
  
• settlers
  (n.) People who move to a place and build it up.
  
  
• shadow
  (v.) To keep out the sun's rays.
  (n.) An area blocked from the sun.
  (v.) To follow someone.
  
  
• shallow
  (adj.) Not deep; having a short distance from the top to the bottom.
  (adj.) Not very strong or firm.
  
  
• shame
  (n.) A painful emotion you feel when you do something wrong.
  
  
• share
  (v.) To divide something with other people, or give out.
  (n.) An equal part of a company that a person can own.
  
  
• she's
  (conjunction) Contraction of she is.
  
  
• should've
  (v.) Contraction of should have.
  
  
• shred
  (v.) To tear or cut into small pieces.
  
  
• shrimp
  (n.) A small curved sea animal that has ten legs and a soft shell.
  
  
• shrink
  (v.) To become smaller.
  (n.) A psychiatrist.
  
  
• shrug
  (v.) To raise and lower your shoulders to show that you don't know or don't care about something.
  
  

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