The Ultimate List of Fifth Grade Sight Words
Sight words are an essential aspect of language that is often difficult for young kids to grasp fully. You see, they fill a niche in the English language that people who have been speaking the language all their life will instinctively know regardless of your actual education on the matter.
However, young students may have a hard time understanding or identifying sight words, making teaching them a bit more tricky. Thankfully, young kids are like sponges who love innovative and exciting ways for them to absorb information. Today, we are publishing a list a fifth grade sight words that you can use with your students.
| Abdicate | equivalent | painstaking |
| Abolish | erode | pardon |
| Absurd | erupt | pasture |
| Accelerate | escalate | patient |
| Access | establish | pedestrian |
| Accommodate | evade | penetrate |
| accomplish | evident | perish |
| accurate | exasperate | petrify |
| accustom | excavate | pledge |
| afflict | exert | population |
| aggressive | expand | portrait |
| agony | expel | predict |
| alert | experiment | prelude |
| altitude | export | premature |
| ample | extinct | preserve |
| ancestor | extract | previous |
| animated | exult | prey |
| anxious | famine | primitive |
| approximate | fascinate | proceed |
| aroma | feeble | proclaim |
| ascend | ferocious | prohibit |
| assemble | fertile | prone |
| assign | Flail | prosper |
| associate | Flee | protrude |
| assume | flimsy | provide |
| available | foolhardy | provoke |
| avalanche | formal | puny |
| banquet | former | purchase |
| barren | fracture | pursue |
| bask | frigid | reassure |
| betray | frivolous | rebel |
| beverage | fume | refuge |
| bland | Gale | reign |
| blizzard | gigantic | reluctant |
| boisterous | gorge | remote |
| bondage | Grim | require |
| brace | guardian | resemble |
| brilliant | hangar | restrict |
| brittle | harbor | resume |
| budge | harsh | retain |
| bungle | harvest | retire |
| burden | heroic | revert |
| burly | Hew | revive |
| carcass | hilarious | ridicule |
| cargo | hoist | rigid |
| carnivore | horizon | riot |
| cask | hostile | ripple |
| catapult | huddle | rouse |
| celebrate | Idle | route |
| challenge | illuminate | saunter |
| character | immense | scald |
| cluster | indignant | seldom |
| colony | inflict | sensation |
| combine | intense | sever |
| companion | intercept | significant |
| compassion | introduce | slither |
| compatible | investigate | sluggish |
| compensate | Jest | snout |
| comply | jostle | soar |
| comprehend | jubilation | solitary |
| conceal | jubilee | solo |
| concept | Kin | somber |
| confident | liberate | sparse |
| conquer | likeness | spectator |
| consist | loathe | stall |
| consume | lumber | steadfast |
| contact | lurch | stimulate |
| convalesce | Lure | stupendous |
| convince | major | subsequent |
| course | makeshift | substantial |
| crave | maximum | suffocate |
| crevice | meager | summit |
| cultivate | meddle | superior |
| cumbersome | methodical | survive |
| decade | mimic | suspend |
| decline | minor | taper |
| decrease | mirth | task |
| dedicate | mischief | taunt |
| delicate | molten | teem |
| denounce | monstrous | tempest |
| dense | moral | terminate |
| depart | morsel | terse |
| deposit | navigation | thwart |
| despair | negotiate | tolerant |
| desperate | nonchalant | topple |
| destination | nostalgia | transform |
| deteriorate | notable | translate |
| dictate | numerous | tremor |
| disaster | oasis | tropical |
| distract | obedient | unwieldy |
| distress | obscure | upbringing |
| dominate | obsolete | urban |
| donate | obstacle | vertical |
| dormant | occasion | visible |
| drought | oppose | vow |
| duration | optimist | voyage |
| edible | option | waddle |
| elegant | outskirts | wilderness |
| employ | overdue | wither |
| encounter | overthrow | yearn |
