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Focus Skills & Strategies: Sequence and Authors Message The Be Verbs, Response to Literature Genre:
1. conserved 2. strict 3. absence 4. shelters . permanently ". drifts $. scarce %. dim &. harsh 1(. bleak

*Spelling Words* Test: Friday, January 31th

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Robust Vocabulary - Test: Thurs., January 31th

If something is rare and important, it should be conserved, or kept carefully. If you are stern and demand obedience, you are strict. An absence means that something or someone is not present. Something that shelters you protects you and keeps you safe. If something stays one !ay forever, it stays that !ay permanently. #hen something drifts, it moves along !ithout direction. Something is scarce if there is not much of it to be found. It is dim !hen there is not much light. If something is hard to stand up to, like a bli''ard, it is harsh. If something is cold and gloomy, it is bleak.

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