Vocabulary Words - Third Grade - T:

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• tackle
  (v.) In games, such as football, when players try to get the ball by making their opponent fall.
  
  
• tacos
  (n.) Tortillas filled with meat, lettuce, cheese, etc.
  
  
• tale
  (n.) A story.
  
  
• talk
  (v.) To speak.
  (n.) A speech or presentation.
  
  
• tame
  (adj.) When animals aren't wild because of the training they have received.
  
  
• tardy
  (adj.) Late.
  
  
• target
  (n.) A person or organization that you use as an example.
  (v.) To choose as an example or for studying.
  
  
• tease
  (v.) To make fun of someone.
  
  
• teddy
  (n.) Same as teddy bear, a stuffed animal in the shape of a bear.
  
  
• tennis
  (n.) A game where two players use rackets to throw a small ball back and forth to each other.
  
  
• tenth
  (n.) The one numbered ten in a series; one of 10 equal parts of something.
  
  
• thank
  (v.) To express your gratitude.
  
  
• thaw
  (v.) To melt something frozen.
  
  
• thick
  (adj.) Not thin.
  
  
• think
  (v.) To form ideas in your mind or to have an opinion about something.
  
  
• third
  (adj.) The number three in a series.
  (n.) One of three equal parts of anything.
  
  
• thorn
  (n.) A short, hard, sharp branch on a plant.
  
  
• thud
  (n.) The low sound that you hear when a heavy object hits something else.
  
  
• ticker
  (n.) In the past, a machine that printed stock prices.
  
  
• ticket
  (n.) A printed piece of paper that allows you to enter a concert or movie or ride a bus, train, or airplane.
  (n.) A printed piece of paper that shows that you have paid to do something.
  
  
• tickle
  (v.) To touch a sensitive part of someone's body to make them laugh.
  
  
• tidy
  (adj.) Neat.
  
  
• tight
  (adj.) Not loose.
  
  
• timber
  (n.) Trees that people cut down and use for building or making things.
  
  
• timer
  (n.) A device for measuring time.
  
  

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