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odd • poky

odd • adjective peer • verb
Something is odd if it is strange or You peer when you look very hard at
unusual. something to see it better.

A penguin is an odd bird because it Sean peered into the aquarium full of
does not fly. fish and tried to find the tiny snail.

odor • noun peppy • adjective
An odor is a smell. A peppy person or animal is full of

Skunks have a strong odor that can energy.
be smelled from far away. My peppy baby sister jumped up and
down in her crib.
Pp
permit • verb
panic • verb
You permit something when you allow
When you panic, you become very it to happen.
afraid and don’t know what to do.
Will you permit me to go to the beach
The people inside the elevator began to with Sam and his family?
panic when the door would not open.
pest • noun
pantomime • verb
A pest is someone or something that
You pantomime when you tell a really bothers you.
story with movements and facial
expressions rather than words. Ants can be pests when they walk all
over our picnic food.
There wasn’t a sound as the
kindergartners pantomimed how to pity • noun

make scrambled eggs. You have pity when you feel sorry for
someone.
patient • adjective
A patient person does not get upset Sam felt pity for the people who lost
when things take a long time. their homes when the hurricane hit.

The patient teacher repeated the poky • adjective
directions over and over until everyone Someone or something that moves
knew what to do. slowly is poky.

pause • verb Sometimes my dog is poky on walks
You pause when you stop what you because she stops to smell everything
are doing for a short time. she sees.

Let’s pause for lunch and then finish
our work when we come back.

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