Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Aliens
100

The most exciting part of the story, we learn the outcome

What is climax?

100

Where the main character faces a series of conflicts

What is rising action?

100

Events leading to the end of the story

What is falling action?

100

To calm and focus the mind

What is meditate?

100
These are the 3 steps used when answering an extended response questions.

What is RAP (restate, answer, prove)?

200

To be uncomfortably hot

What is swelter?

200

A large fire that is out of control

What is inferno?

200

The problem the character faces in a story

What is conflict?

200

A body of air or watch moving continuously in a certain direction

What is current?

200

inspecting or examining something very closely, especially to see if there are any problems with it

What is scrutiny?

300

To make dirty or pollute

What is foul?

300

The end of the story

What is resolution?

300

To move back or away

What is recede?

300

A point where two or more things meet

What is junction?

300

coming from or existing outside planet Earth

What is extraterrestrial

400

beginning of the story, we learn the characters, setting

What is exposition?

400

A person unfairly blamed for something

What is scapegoat?

400

A close friend you spend a lot of time with

What is comrade?

400

An icicle-shaped chunk of rock that hangs down from the ceiling of a cave

What is stalactite?

400

a state of uncontrolled excitement or wild activity

what is frenzy

500

Dirty, wet or limp from being in the rain

What is bedraggled

500

A very large city and its surrounding suburbs

What is a metropolis?

500

To throw a person into confusion

What is confound?

500

A large amount of liquid flowing rapidly and violently

What is torrential?

500

a very small organism

What is a microorganism?

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