Raising Dragons

Vocabulary

Chores

• Everyday jobs or responsibilities around a home, like washing dishes or feeding animals

Perch

• A place to sit or rest

appetite

• A strong desire for food; hunger

hitched

• Fastened an animal to a piece of farm equipment

plow

• To turn over dirt, often in long rows, so that seeds can be planted

sown

• Planted seeds

tended

• Took care of

harvested

• Picked and brought in a crop

shelling

• Removing the outside covering

atlas

• A book of maps

farewell

• Another word for good-bye

departing

• Leaving, going away

rainforest

• A thick forest in a hot region with high rainfall

scales

• A hard covering, made up of small, thin, plate like parts, used for protection on a fish or reptile

prey

• An animal hunted by another for food

saliva

• The watery fluid in the mouth that helps make chewing and swallowing food easier

infection

• A sickness that can be passed from one animal or person to another

glide

• To move slowly, quietly, and with ease

parachute

• A piece of tough material shaped like an umbrella that is used to safely slow the fall of a person or an object from the sky

crest

• A natural growth, cluster of feathers, or fold skin on an animal’s head

hind

• At the back or rear