Powerful Verbs

To look at something or someone very quickly.

• Glanced
• Grinned
• Sauntered

Choose the vocabulary word that best fills the blank: 
The girls __________slowly toward the MS442 cafeteria 

• Shuffled
• Strode 
• Sauntered 

To look directly at someone in an angry way.

•  Peered
• Scowled
• Glared 

Choose the vocabulary word that best fills the blank: 
Rio _______ into her locker, hoping to find her ELA notebook. 

• Grimaced 
• Peered
• Shuffled 

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Strode 

• to slide your feet without lifting them completely.
• to move slowly, without a clear purpose or plan. 
• To walk with long, confident steps. 

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Drifted  

• To walk or move with heavy or loud steps.
• To move slowly, without a clear purpose or plan. 
• make a facial expression in which your mouth and face are twisted. 

To smile widely 

• Scowled 
• Grinned
• Stomped

Choose the vocabulary word that best fills the blank: 
Ms. Onstad ___________when she saw a precious Fablehaven book thrown on the ground. 

• Scowled 
• Grimaced 
• Glared 

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Stomped 

• To walk or move with heavy or loud steps
• to make facial expressions in which your mouth and face are twisted in a way that shows disgust, disapproval, or pain. 
• To slide your feet without lifting them completely 

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Grimaced 

• to smile in an unpleasant way, because you are pleased with yourself or enjoying someone else's trouble. 
• To look directly at someone in an angry way. 
• To make a facial expression in which your mouth and face are twisted in a way that shows disgust, disapproval, or pain.