Oxford Discover 3 Word List

Unit Get Ready Words in Context Word Study Passive Vocabulary

fair (event) athlete answer candles
family reunion band (musical) end children
festival championship laugh colorful
folk dance envelope (n) paint couple
player place decorate
Unit 1
race (n) show delicious
score married
team popular
wedding
winner
bounce balance get along anymore
canyon boa constrictor get around forest
cliff landing get away pebbles
drop toss get by rubber ball
kick get down sand
Unit 2
lake get over
plain
skip
stream
tag
dancing classmate unbuttoned angry
fishing curry uncovered camp (n)
ice skating monsoon unplugged canoeing
meeting
neighbors surgeon untangled coming over
moving untied hiking
Unit 3
packing unwrapped movies
raking leaves visit
shopping weather
sledding
throwing
snowballs
clinic belongings Australian change
country (nation) experiences Brazilian nearby
Unit 4
factory immigrant Chinese perhaps
hospital move abroad Irish possible

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 rural area Japanese reason
shopping mall Swedish reasons
suburb space
university
urban area
zoo
bee escaped article candle-light
beetle insect bubble creative
butterfly leaping gentle feelers
cricket shooting star handle joy
grasshopper single playwright
Unit 5
kangaroo staple poet
katydid
ladybug
raisin
thicket
adjective describe automobile become
angelfish exact calendar example
letter (alpha) imagine secretary ideas
noun observe television imagination
rhyming words thermometer lines
Unit 6
robin understand topic
sentence
snowflakes
syllable
verb
hour accurate celebrate complete
minute axis celebration disappeared
month opposite preparation divide
multiply planet prepare imaginary
noon suggest measure
Unit 7
orbit suggestion modern
second movement
spin plan
time zone
year
airport forehead He'll add
Unit 8
destination sneezing He's beside

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 doctor tissues I'll business trip
earache washcloth I'm continue
fever She'll gone
headache She's remembered
medicine They'll worried
passenger They're
passport We'll
sick We're
You'll
You're
coal fossil fuels conserve burn
electricity nonrenewable harm grain
natural gas renewable harvest hollow
oil source plant powers
pollution shield propeller
Unit 9
power plant waste pump
sailboat replace
wind farm
wind turbine
windmill
ambulance blades rebuilt bells
carpool button recharged company
elevator mask repaints heaters
escalator pedal replanted ordinary
fire engine retake power cord
Unit 10
helicopter rewrite recycled
subway roof
taxi stuck
traffic jam whistles
train
astronaut beekeeper amaze booming
bassoon deafening amazing buzzing
baton gym challenge confidence
cello mystery challenging enormous
Unit 11
circus trainer relax farmer
conductor relaxing humming
orchestra
scientist

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 timpani
trombone
clarinet material badge brass
didgeridoo pitch bridge cane
djembe traditional dodgeball certain
erhu vibrate edge percussion
flute hedge similar
Unit 12
panpipes partridge string
snare drum
tuba
violin
zummara
axe jar lids garbage bag bicycle
doorknob nails glasses board
hammer seesaw glider bottle opener
lever wheelchairs globe car
light bulb gramaphones chopping
Unit 13
ramp gum daily
screw sharp
stairs vehicle
wedge winds
wheel and axle
eyeglasses bump careful base
frames delicate careless bumped
furnace footsteps fearful curved
glass pound fearless pounded
glassblower harmful talented
Unit 14
glassware harmless wrapped
pitcher
vase
wire
workshop
humans flat length moisten
leaves important long remember
nectar round strength smooth
Unit 15
oxygen sprout strong sunlight
petals wide warmth
pollen width

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 roots
seeds
soil
stem
beans bloom (v) brave basket
community curious mature block
crowd empty raw glowing
garden water (v) ripe halfway
gardener unafraid mural
Unit 16
haze uncooked terrible
shopping cart
sweet potato
teenagers
vines
clouds healthy look after deck
coast journey look around die
fog sail look for journal
hail strait look out look up to
island look through lose
lightning look up narrow
Unit 17
river news
storm reach
waterfall remain
windy route
ship
stay
coral diver clownfish beneath
dolphin freezing sandcastles device
goggles hose seafloor protect
humpback whale tethered seagull suit
kelp shipwreck surface
Unit 18
leafy sea dragon swordfish underwater
octopus
otter
penguin
squid

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