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Open Court - Level 5 Unit 5 Lesson 5

tangled-up The playful cat left the ball of yarn in a tangled-up mess on the floor. Generally, it would be a tangled- up mess of grasshoppers and worms and praying bugs and little nasty tree lizards.

adjective: tangled-up (p. 462) and stuck together mixed up

whopper We listened as Travis told a whopper of a tale of catching a two-foot-long catfish with his bare hands. We all laughed. She said that if he ever told a bigger whopper than the ones I used to tell, she had yet to hear it.

noun: (p. 465) whopper a tall tale; an exaggerated story

yarns My dad likes to tell yarns about his life as a small boy. We know that most of them aren’t true. I think Mom had let him tell so many big yarns about his catching live game that he began to believe them himself.

made-up stories yarns noun: (p. 466)

frantic The woman was frantic when she could not find her purse. She raced around the store looking every place she had been. Little Arliss’s second scream, when it came, was louder and shriller and more frantic sounding than the first.

adjective: very worried and afraid (p. 467) frantic

spooked Hearing the coyote howl really spooked me. I was afraid to go to sleep. That spooked me. Up till then, I’d been ready to tie into that bear myself. Now, suddenly, I was scared out of my wits again.

verb spooked (p. 471) scared