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Fluency Practice No. 1

The Crow and the Pitcher

a. Perched - a resting place or vantage point
b. Muttered - to complain in a quiet or endured way
c. Terrific - extremely good

Fluency Practice No. 2

Fox, Alligator, and Rabbit

a. Porridge - a soft food made by boiling meal of grains or legumes in milk or water until thick
b. Chuckling - to laugh in a quiet way
c. Fur - to cover or coat
d. Gobbled - to make eagerly to swallow or eat greedily

Fluency Practice No. 3

The Grasshopper and the Ant

a. Chirping - to make short high-pitched sound or to say in a cheerful and live way
b. Scurrying - to move quickly and with short steps
c. Bask - to lie or relax happily in a bright and warm place
d. Morsel - a small piece of food

Fluency Practice No. 4

The Pumpkin in a Jar

a. Smashed - broken to pieces
b. Clever - showing intelligent thinking

Fluency Practice No. 5

Tiger and Anansi

a. Slithered - to move by asking sliding your entire body back and forth
 b. Fetched - to go after and bring back

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Fluency Practice No. 6

Life in A Rainforest
a. Shadowy - full of shadows ; not clearly seen
b. Prowl - to roam around an area stealthily in search of prey, food, or opportunity

Fluency Practice No. 7

The Mouse's House

a. Scampering - to run or move quickly and after playfully
b. Scurried - to move quickly and with short steps
c. Nibble - to eat slowly or with small bits

Fluency Practice No. 8

Animal Helpers
a. Harness - a set of straps that are placed on a animal
b. Straps - a narrow and usually flat piece of a material that is use for fastening, holding together, or whipping
something

Fluency Practice No. 9

Are Sport Utility Vehicles (SUV) worth their High Price

a. Traction - the power that is used to pull something
b. Maneuver - a clever or skill full action or movement
c. Adage - an old and well-known saying that express a general truth
d. Collide - to hit something or each other with strong force
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Fluency Practice No. 10

Natural Habits
a. Fidget - uneasiness or restlessness as shown by nervous movement
b. Jerking - a quick full or twist or a sudden sharp movement
c. Fierce - eager to fight or kill

Fluency Practice No. 11

Stone Soup
a. Spare - to chose not to furnish or harm
b. Trilled - to flow in a small stream
c. Crusty - harsh and unfriendly

Fluency Practice No. 12

The City Mouse and The Country Mouse

a. Scurried - to have quickly and with short steps
b. Scampering - to run or move quickly and often playfully
c. Slathered - a great quantity
d. Squeaked - to make a short, high-pitched cry or noise
e. Pounce - the claw of a bird a prey

Fluency Practice No. 13

Frogs helps Snake

a. Strained - feeling or showing the effect of too much work, use, effort etc.
b. Slither - to move by sliding your entire body back and forth
c. Trotted - a ride or horseback
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Fluency Practice No. 14

Somewhere in the World Right Now

a. Velvety - soft and smooth
b. Sighs - to take a deep audible breath
c. Murmurs - a low sound made when many people are speaking
d. Chuckle - to laugh in a quiet way

Fluency Practice No. 15

The Ant and The Chrysalis

a. Chrysalis - a pupa of a butterfly
b. Fluttered - to move with quick, light movement

Fluency Practice No. 16

The Theory of Plate Tectonics

a. Dubious - unsure or uncertain about an outcome or conclusion
b. Tectonics - study of Earth's crust
c. Rifts - a gap or break in something where it has split apart
d. Colliding - to hit something or each other with strong force

Fluency Practice No. 17

Energy: What It Is and Where It Comes from

a. Fossil - the remains of an animal or plant preserved from an earlier era inside a rock
b. Hydrogen - reactive gaseous element
c. Drawbacks - something that cause problems
d. Reservoirs - a substantial reserve supply of something intangible
e. Noxious - harmful to life or health
f. Emissions - something that is produced or given out
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Fluency Practice No. 18

Models of the Atom

a. Philosopher- somebody who seeks to understand and explain the principles of existence
b. Theory - belief about something arrived at through speculation or conjecture
c. Bombarded - hit something with high-energy particles
d. Orbits - revolution of as astronomical object
e. Pinpoint - identify something correctly

Fluency Practice No. 19

DNA and Cell Division

a. Chromosomes - red-shaped structure carrying genes
b. Vital - extremely important and necessary
c. Offspring - the product, consequence, or effect of something
d. Heredity - the inherited right to something
e. Genes - basic unit of heredity

Fluency Practice No. 20

Mathematics as a Language
a. Emphasis - special importance, significance, or stress
b. Vocabulary - all the words used in a language as whole
c. Convey - to communicate or express something
d. Notably - especially, or in the most significant case

Fluency Practice No. 21

Museums Under the Waves

a. Scuba - apparatus for breathing underwater
b. Sonar - system for detecting underwater objects
c. Artifacts - an object made by a human being
 d. Synchronized - to make something work at the same time or the same rate as something else
e. Fabled - famous because of being describe or recounted in legends

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Fluency Practice No. 22

The Golden Touch

a. Merry - lively and cheerful
b. Goblet - a drinking vessel with a stem and base
c. Chuckling - to laugh in a quiet way
d. Nugget - lump of gold or metal
e. Greedy - strongly desiring more than required
f. Foolish - seeming ridiculous

Fluency Practice No. 23

What is a Computer?
a. Forecaster - suggest what will happen
b. Grocer - food seller
c. Arithmetic - branch of mathematics that deals with addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division

Fluency Practice No.24

Reference Books
a. Reference - a spoken or written comment that either specifically mentions

Fluency Practice No.25

Quicksand
b. Provoke - to make somebody feel angry or indignant
c. Buoyed - to keep something from falling or sinking
d. Engulfed - swallow something up
e. Molecules - smallest part of chemical compound; tiny amount
f. Mush - a soft pulpy mass
g. Cushion - something soft and yielding
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Fluency Practice No.26

Farming the Ocean

a. Tremendous - extremely large, powerful, or great
b. Acre - unit of area
c. Moored - wild area of countryside

Fluency Practice No.27

The Flight of Daedalus

a. Glistened - to shine brightly
b. Pondered - to think about something carefully over a period of time
c. Plume - a feather, especially a large or ornamental one
d. Swooped - to descend quickly and suddenly with a sweeping movement

Fluency Practice No.28

The Nervous System

a. Hemisphere - one half of a sphere or of anything spherical in shape
b. Groove - a narrow channel or path in a surface
c. Hiccupping - sudden contraction of diaphragm

Fluency Practice No.29

Swifter, Higher, Stronger

a. Swifter - happening or done very quickly or sudden
b. Wreath - put on somebody's head as a sign of honor
c. Conquered - to take control of a place by force of arms
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Fluency Practice No.30

The Great Mountain Ranges of the World

a. Upheaval - a sudden raising of part of the Earth's crust
b. Glaciers - a large body of continuously accumulating ice and compacted snow
c. Pioneers - a person or group that is the first to do something or that leads in developing something new
d. Jute - coarse fiber from the stems of an Asian plant