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Scott Foresman Reading Vocabulary Unit 6
Saint Matthew Island
Narrative Nonfiction
| bleached | whitened by exposure to sunlight or by use of chemicals |
| carcasses | bodies of dead animals |
| decay | process of rotting |
| parasites | living things that live on or in others, from which they get their food, often harming the others |
| scrawny | having little flesh; lean; thin; skinny |
| starvation | suffering from extreme hunger |
| suspicious | beliefs, feelings, thoughts |
| tundra | a vast, treeless plain in the arctic regions |