Sentences

Every week in Room 18 we have to write down 5 spelling sentences. We not only have to write down the sentences but we also have to get the meaning from the dictionary. 

Here are my sentences for this week:

Spelling Words	Dictionary Definition	Complex Sentence
Spelling Word Example: departed	Leave, especially in order to start a new journey.	I departed for America so that I could be reunited with my family.
Spelling Word One: Receded	to go or move away; retreat; go to or toward a more distant point;withdraw.	When I was sitting on the beach I noticed that the waves receded back to sea because the tide was going out.
Spelling Word Two: Exasperation	an act or instance of exasperating; provocation.	My mum looked at me with exasperation when I told her that once again I left my bag at school.
Spelling Word Three: Drenched	to wet thoroughly; soak.	I tramped up the rough hill while it was pouring down with rain so when I got back to the lodge I was DRENCHED.
Spelling Word Four: Dormant	lying asleep or as if asleep; inactive, as in sleep; torpid:	The speaker suddenly woke the dormant crowd by singing then he started to speak again and they all went back to being dormant.
Spelling Word Five: Emerged	to come forth into view or notice, as from concealment or obscurity:	One night every year, one ghost EMERGES from the grave to haunt a little boy named Billy.