Summer of Fire Vocabulary Author-Patricia Lauber

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Summer of Fire VocabularyAuthor-Patricia Lauber

• By
• Mr. Ochoa

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Yellowstone (click on the link)
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withering

• Causing to dry up and shrivel up

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tinder

• A material, such as dry twigs, that is used to
  start a fire because it burns easily.

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Threaten

• To be in danger or express hostile intentions
  toward somebody

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oxygen

• One of the gases that makes up air, needed for
  all burning

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Merge

• To combine or unite

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canopy

• A roof like cover the covering formed by leaves
  and branches in the forest

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ember

• A small glowing bit of burning wood.

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Roman Candles

• Fireworks that shoot out showers of sparks and
  balls of fire.

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thunderheads

• The spreading upper parts of thunder clouds

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geyser

• A natural hot spring that at time sprouts water
  and steam into the air

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bear

• To move forcefully

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veer

• To turn aside swerve