McGraw Hill Wonders – Unit 2 – Vocabulary Words – Second Grade
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Animals and Nature
Animals in Stories
Animal Habitats
Baby Animals
Animals in Poems
1. adapt – When
1. believe – If you
1. buried – When
1. adult – An adult is a
1. behave – When you
something has to adapt to
believe something, you
behave, you act in a way
something is buried, it is
person or animal that is
a new place, it must adjust
think this is true.
that is good or correct.
covered up or hidden.
fully-grown.
to it.
2. delicious – The dogs
2. express – When you
2. escape – If you
2. alive – If something is
2. climate – The climate
ate all of their food.
express your feelings,
escape something, you
alive, it is living.
of a place is the weather
When food is delicious, it
you tell or show how you
get out of it or away
3. covered – If
that it usually has.
tastes very good.
feel about something.
from it.
something is covered,
3. eager – When you are
3. feast – If you feast,
3. feathers – Feathers
3. habitat – A habitat is
there is something all
eager to do something,
you eat a large or fancy
are the soft things that
the place where an
over it.
you want to do it very
meal.
cover a bird’s body.
animal or plant usually
4. fur – Fur is thick
much.
4. fond – When you are
4. flapping – If
lives or grows.
animal hair.
4. freedom – If you have
fond of something, you
something if flapping, it is
4. journey – A journey
5. giant – Something
freedom, you can do what
like it a lot.
moving up and down.
is a trip.
that is giant is very
you want and go where
5. lessons – Lessons
5. poem – A poem is a
5. nature – Nature is all
large.
you want.
are things you can learn
form of writing that
5. fresh – When
the things outdoors not
6. groom – When
ideas or rules from.
express imagination or
something is fresh, it is
made by people.
animals grooms each
6. remarkable – If
feelings.
new or not spoiled.
6. peeks – If a person
other, they clean each
something is remarkable,
6. rhyme – When two
6. sense – Sense means
peeks, they take a quick
other.
it is wonderful or
words rhyme, they have
a feeling you have about
look.
7. mammal – A
outstanding.
the same ending sounds.
something.
7. restless – If you
mammal is any warm-
7. snatch – If you snatch
7. rhythm – Rhythm is
7. shadows – Shadows
cannot stay still or quiet,
blooded animal that
something, you grab it
the repeating accents, or
are dark shapes that are
then you are restless.
feeds milk to its babies.
quickly.
beats, in a poem.
made when something is
8. spies – If a person
8. offspring – Offspring
8. stories – When you
8. word choice – Word
in front of a light.
spies something, that
are children or young
tell stories, you tell made-
choice is the use of rich,
8 silence – If there is
person watches for
people or animals.
up tales.
colorful, exact words.
silence, it is still and quiet.
something and sees it.