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chum • dangle

chum • noun cooperative • adjective
A chum is good friend. A cooperative person works well

Gabe likes to sit next to his chum with other people.
Aidan on the school bus. I love having cooperative teammates

who play well together.
clever • adjective
A clever person is smart and can create • verb
quickly figure things out. You create something when you

The clever police officer looked at make it from your own ideas.
the clues and figured out who had I want to create a puppet using paper
robbed the store. plates, colored paper, crayons,
and glue.
cluster • noun
A cluster is a number of things of the creep • verb
same kind that grow or are grouped People who creep move carefully and
close together. quietly so that no one will see or hear

Mom tucked a small cluster of them.
green grapes into my lunchbox. My brother likes to creep up behind

me when I’m reading a book. Then he
cluttered • adjective
says “Boo!”
A cluttered place is messy and
full of things. crunch • verb

The drawer is so cluttered that When you crunch, you chew noisily
I can’t find a pencil. on something.
I could hear my brother crunch his
collection • noun
potato chips.
A collection is a group of things that
are alike. Dd

Emily has large and small seashells damp • adjective
in her shell collection. A damp object is a little bit wet.

compete • verb My dog does not like baths, so I use

People who compete take part in a damp towel to clean her.
contests, sports, or games.
dangle • verb
I am going to compete in a spelling Something dangles when it hangs
bee to win a big trophy. down and swings loosely.

When I dangle a piece of yarn in front

of my cat, she jumps up and grabs it.

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