Unit 5 Week 2 Vocabulary

What does prospector mean?

• dried up

• to wrinkle

• an individual who explores for gold and other minerals

Match the following

• shriveled or dried up

• scoffed

• large areas or regions of land

• withered

• a colony or new region where people start living

• territories

• made fun of; teased; mocked

• settlement

What word means diving or falling suddenly in a downward direction

• shrivel

• topple

• plunging

What does scoffed mean?

• made fun of, mocked, teased

• topple

• territories

• withered

What does toppled mean?

• a colony

• large regions

• to fall or make fall forward