Collection 4: My Wonder Horse

As you read Sabine R. Ulibarri's "My Wonder Horse," learn this word list. Here are links to lists for texts in Grade 6's Collection 4: My Wonder Horse, texts about wild animals, Eleven, poems about being an American
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  1. potentate
    a powerful ruler, especially one who is unconstrained by law
  2. mystic
    beyond ordinary understanding
  3. lethargy
    inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy
  4. virile
    characteristic of a man
  5. vigil
    a purposeful surveillance to guard or observe
  6. talismanic
    possessing or believed to possess magic power especially protective power
  7. hurl
    throw forcefully
  8. mandate
    a formal statement of a command to do something
  9. ferment
    a state of agitation or turbulent change or development
  10. spume
    foam or froth on the sea
  11. recoil
    draw back, as with fear or pain
  12. ultimate
    furthest or highest in degree or order; utmost or extreme
  13. indignity
    an affront to one's self-esteem
  14. indomitable
    impossible to subdue
  15. transcendent
    beyond and outside the ordinary range of human experience
Created on Sun Jul 13 17:01:03 EDT 2014 (updated Thu Jul 24 11:38:15 EDT 2014)

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