ELA Vocab
What does the word "devastated" mean?
The word devastated means overwhelming saddness or grief.
A fundamental change in a political organization.
True or False
Biodegradable means that it CAN be decomposed?
True
What is an integer?
An integer is a whole number (not a fractional number) that can be positive, negative, or zero.
What is a suffix?
A suffix is a letter or group of letters at the END of a word that changes the words meaning.
What is the difference between fiction and nonfiction text?
The main difference between fiction and nonfiction is that fiction is based on imagination and creativity, while nonfiction is based on fact and reality.
What are records used in the past that have survived into the present called?
What is a document?
________ two or more atoms connected by chemical bonds.
What is a molecule?
What is the opposite of -4?
What is a prefix?
A prefix is a letter or group of letters are the BEGINNING of the word that changes the words meaning.
What is the difference between a biography and an autobiography?
A biography is a book written about a persons life, where an autobiography is written by the author themselves.
What does the word "domestic" mean?
Domestic means existing or occurring inside a particular country; not foreign or international.
What does it mean if something is synthetic?
Something made of artificial material, not natural items.
_________ is the distance between the number and 0 on the number line.
What is the absolute value?
What does the prefix in- mean?
The prefix in- means "not."
Use the word "resilience" in a sentence.
Answer must include using resilience and the ability to recover quickly.
Use the word annex in an educational sentence.
Answers vary..
Annex means to append or add as an extra or subordinate part, especially to a document.
What is the definition of an element?
A substance that cannot be broken down into simpler substances by chemical means.
a + (-a) = 0
a = a number
What is (-a) called?
-a is the additive inverse
What does the suffix -ful mean?
The suffix -ful means "full of."
What does a philanthropist do?
A person who seeks to promote the welfare of others, especially by the generous donation of money to good causes.
________ are taxes imposed by one country on goods or services imported from another country.
What is a tariff?
The word "polymer" comes from the Greek words
poly- meaning "_______"
and -mer meaning "_______"
Poly means many & mer means part.
Two numbers that add together to make 0.
What is a zero pair?
What is the definition of the word reviewer? You must say what re- and -er means to change the word view.
re- means again
view means to see
-er means a person with a particular job
reviewer- means a person who need to view something again.