Academic Vocabulary
the ability to understand something
What is "comprehend"?
Fill in the blank
Now that she had hit three home runs, she felt ______ that she had a place on the team.
A. available
B. potential
C. secure
What is "secure"?
defined as physically weak, unhealthy, delicate, or easily broken or damaged
What is "frail'?
from "Thank You, M'am"
The reason an author writes a text
What is Author's Purpose?
Based on the context of the passage, what does the word composed show about Maya's actions?
What is B?
B. She was trying to hide her nervousness by acting calm and cool.
Going beyond the author's words to understand what is not being said in the text
What is "Inferencing"?
A crossing guard at a school works to ________ the safety of the children while they are crossing the street.
A. ensure
B. convene
C. rely
What is "Ensure"?
a question or comment that you write directly on a text to capture your reaction to what you are reading
A writer uses dark, stormy imagery, eerie sounds, and isolated settings to create a feeling of suspense and dread for the reader. What literary term describes this overall atmosphere experienced by the reader?
What is B?
Mood is the emotional atmosphere or climate that a piece of writing creates for the audience or reader.
The robotics team followed its written instructions and completed the steps needed to run the program.
What did the team do?
A. They executed the plan
B. They questioned the plan without acting
C. They erased the plan
D. They delayed the plan indefinitely
What is "A"?
To execute something is to carry it out or complete it.
To understand the word's meaning, the teacher told the students to look at the surrounding text for helpful _________ clues.
What is "Context"?
(Context Clues)
We shop there because we can ______ or depend on that store to sell only the freshest fruits and vegetables.
A. dominate
B. rely
C. ensure
What is "rely"?
Even when the hike became steep and tiring, Amira stayed determined to reach the summit and kept
moving forward. Amira was resolute. What does RESOLUTE mean?
A. Easily distracted
B. Unsure of every choice
C. Firmly determined
D. Unwilling to begin
What is "C" Firmly determined?
Memoirs, autobiographies, biographies, personal narratives are all examples of.....
What is Literary Nonfiction?
One article explains steps in order, while another compares two animals and describes their differences.
The authors organized the information in different ways. What are these ways called?
A. Text structures
B. Inferences
C. Author messages
D. Revisions
What are Text Structures?
What is "Emphasize"?
Kai ambition is to become an engineer, design useful machines, and attend college. What does
ambition mean?
A. Annotations
B. Goals
C. Text structures
D. Revisions
What are "Goals"?
23. The tablet transmitted a photo to the classroom computer, and the image appeared on the computer
screen a moment later. What does transmitted mean?
A. Deleted from every device
B. Moved from one machine to another
C. Printed on paper only
D. Changed into a drawing by hand
What is "B" Moved from one machine to another?
the 5 Author's Purposes
What is Persuade, Entertain, Inform, Explain, and Describe?
An author writes, "The ancient oak tree groaned and clawed at the windowpane during the fierce storm." How does the specific choice of the verbs groaned and clawed impact the scene?
What is B?
Personification is giving human actions (groaning and clawing) to a non-human object creates vivid, eerie imagery and builds suspense.
to judge, appraise, or calculate the quality, importance, amount, or value of someone or something
What is "evaluate"?
It is difficult to imagine a surfeit of talent in one individual, yet Leonard Bernstein simply does not have the time to make complete use of his talent as conductor, performer, writer, and lecturer.
What does the word surfeit mean in this sentence?
A) A complete lack
B) An excess or overabundance
C) A hidden type
D) A steady decline
What is "B"?
B — The context shows that Bernstein has so much talent across multiple fields—conductor, performer, writer, and lecturer—that he cannot use it all).
Only the team's most skilled runners qualified for the special race. They were considered the elite
runners in their group. What does elite mean?
A. Least experienced
B. Best in their group
C. Most recently hired
D. Most frequently absent
What is "B" The best in their group?
Which of the following best defines the term "connotation"?
A. The literal dictionary definition of a word without any emotional or personal associations.
B. The emotional or cultural meaning and feeling associated with a word beyond its literal definition.
C. An intentional exaggeration used for emphasis or dramatic comedic effect in a narrative.
D. A direct comparison between two unlike things without using the words "like" or "as."
hint
Think about how certain words make you feel (such as the difference between "slim" and "skinny") rather than what you would look up in a strict dictionary lookup.
What is B? The emotional or cultural meaning and feeling associated with a word beyond its literal definition.
If the author replaced the word tenacious with the word stubborn, how would the meaning or tone of the sentence change?
What is C? It would shift the tone from a positive compliment to a slightly negative criticism.
Tenacious implies hard-working and persistent, while stubborn can imply being difficult or uncooperative.