Spelling Words 5/16-5/20

Spelling Words 5/16-5/20 Words with Silent Consonants
1. island       11. autumn
2. column    12. knuckles
3. knee        13. numb
4. often        14. Illinois
5. known     15. rhyme
6. castle       16. climber
7. thumb      17. limb
8. half          18. plumbing
9. calf          19. ghost
10. whistle   20. clothes

Vocabulary Words (Taken from the reading text The Man Who Went to the Far Side of the Moon)

as-tro-nauts pilots or members of the crew of a spacecraft
cap-sule the enclosed front section of a rocket made to carry instruments, astronauts, and so forth, into space. In flight, the capsule can separate from the rest of the rocket and go into orbit or be directed back to Earth.
hatch a trapdoor covering an opening in an aircraft's or ship's deck
ho-ri-zon line where Earth and the sky seem to meet; skyline. You cannot see beyond the horizon
lu-nar of, like, or about the moon
mod-ule a self-contained unit or system within a larger system, often designed for a particular function
quar-an-tine detention, isolation, and other measures taken to prevent the spread of an infectious disease