Taste
Bitter Buttery Creamy Crispy Crunchy Delectable Delicious Dry Flavorful Foul Fresh Mouth-watering Palatable Salty Savory Scrumptious Sharp Soggy Sour Spicy Stale Sweet Tangy Tart Unsavory
Adjectives for the Senses Touch Smell Sight
Bristly Coarse Dry Furry Fuzzy Glossy Grainy Greasy Gritty Muddy Oily Prickly Rough Sharp / Pointy Silky Slimy Slippery Smooth Soft Sticky Tattered Velvety Warm (tepid) / Hot / Cold Wet / Damp Wrinkled
Aromatic Fetid Flowery Foul Fragrant Fresh Harsh Indescribable Malodorous Musky Musty Odorous Overbearing Overpowering Perfumed Pungent Putrid Rank Reeking / disgusting Sickly-sweet Spicy Stale Stuffy Sweet Unbearable
See words associated with touch Blinding Breathtaking / awe-inspiring Bright / Brilliant / Intense Colourful (any colour) Dark / Shadowy Dazzling Dim / unclear / obscured / murky Dreadful Gleaming Glistening Glittery /sparkly Gloomy Glossy Grisly Gruesome /awful Horrific Indistinguishable Light / luminous / radiant Matte / Flat Misty / Foggy / Hazy / Cloudy Pale /ashen / gray /drab Psychedelic Shiny Vivid / Clear / Vibrant
Hearing
Booming / Banging Buzzing Clanging Clattering Clicking / Ticking Cracking / Splintering Creaking Deafening / Noisy Dripping / Dropping Echoing Hollow Humming Melodic / Musical Piercing Pounding / Thumping Resonating Reverberating Ringing / Jingling Screeching Silent / Hushed Squeaking Squealing Tearing / Ripping Thundering /Rumbling Whistling
Think of and write a synonym you could use to replace each word in bold to add interest. Write a word that can be used instead.
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CCSS 4.L.5.C Demonstrate understanding of words by relating them to opposites‌..
Name:________________________
Synonyms Directions: Write each word next to its synonym.
leap
handsome
bad
icy
messy
hard
fast
easy
right
small
noisy
present
stone
friend
angry
toss
quick
loud
mad
rock
buddy
throw
dirty
awful
simple
tiny
correct
cute
difficult
cold
gift
jump
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CCSS 4.L.5.C Demonstrate understanding of words by relating them to opposites‌..
Name:________________________
Synonyms
Directions: Circle the correct synonym for the underlined word.
1. Dylon was glum because he could not go to the party. chewy
happy
sad
glad
2. A little mouse ran under the kitchen table. tiny
furry
cute
big
3. Karlee was sleepy because she stayed up late last night. awake
tired
mad
small
4. Jakob found a small rock on the playground. ball
music
leaf
stone
5. Kayleigh knew all of the correct answers. wrong
right
same
left
6. The class was very noisy at lunch. loud
curious
quiet
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glad
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CCSS 4.L.5.C Demonstrate understanding of words by relating them to opposites‌..
Name:________________________
Antonyms Antonyms are words that are opposites. example: hot and cold are antonyms
Directions: Write the correct antonym next to each word.
dry
pretty
bad
icy
messy
hard
fast
easy
right
small
noisy
friend
asleep
night
angry
rich
big
happy
good
soft
wet
poor
clean
ugly
enemy
quiet
slow
wrong
difficult
hot
day
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CCSS 4.L.5.C Demonstrate understanding of words by relating them to opposites…..
Name:________________________
Antonyms Directions: Circle the correct antonym for each underlined word.
1. Taylor’s shirt was wet after the rain started. white
dry
happy
soaked
2. A little mouse ran under the kitchen table. tiny
furry
cute
big
3. Allison fell asleep while reading a book in bed. awake
tired
apart
small
4. Ashton could not watch a movie because her room was messy. dirty
cold
clean
awful
5. The room was very dark when the electricity went out. light
black
dirty
big
6. The class was very noisy at lunch. loud
curious
quiet
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glad
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CCSS
Name:________________________
Antonym or Synonym Directions: Circle the bubble if it contains synonyms. Put an X through the bubble to pop it if it contains antonyms.
handsome cute
messy dirty
awful terrible
dull boring
tiny little
enormous tiny
asleep awake
buddy pal
angry mad
strong powerful
correct wrong
loud noisy
light dark
friend enemy
happy glad
correct right
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easy difficult
quick slow
love hate
up down
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