Vowel Sounds
This is the vowel sound in the word cat.
What is short a?
This is the meaning of the word defy, in Do not defy the rules your teacher gives you:
A. to refuse to obey
B. expecting something to happen
C. went looking for
What is
A. to refuse to obey
?
This is a synonym for big
What is huge, large, enormous, gigantic, massive, humongous, etc.?
This is a possible cause for staying home from school.
What is being sick, having an appointment, missing the bus, etc.?
A noun is this type of word
What is person, place, thing, or idea?
This is the vowel sound in the word meet.
What is long e?
This word means being honest and saying what you think:
A. neutral
B. outspoken
C. unequal
What is
B. outspoken
?
This is an antonym for happy.
What is sad, unhappy, depressed, morose, etc.?
This is a possible effect of a severe thunderstorm.
What is a power outage, flooding, tree damage, etc.?
This is the vowel sound in the word bite.
What is long i?
This is the vowel sound in the word kid.
What is short i?
A. wages
B. prosper
C. risk
What is
B. prosper
?
This is a synonym for angry.
What is mad, furious, enraged, livid, etc.?
This is the cause in the following sentence:
I got an A on my test because I studied very hard.
What is "I studied very hard"?
In the book The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963, the Watsons live in this city before they go on their road trip.
What is Flint, Michigan?
This is the vowel sound in the word nose.
What is long o?
This is the meaning of accustomed as in, "After a few weeks, I became accustomed to my new school."
What is "used to, adapted to"?
This is an antonym for difficult.
What is easy, simple, cinchy, etc.?
This is the effect in the following sentence:
The milk went bad because I forgot to put it back in the fridge.
What is "the milk went bad"?
This is an example of a proper noun:
A. school
B. question
C. October
D. dinosaur
What is C. October?
This is the vowel sound in the word bug.
What is short u?
This is the meaning of scarce, as in "water is scarce in the desert."
What is "hard to find, in short supply"?
This is a synonym for funny.
What is hilarious, humorous, amusing, etc.?
This is a possible cause of certain animals becoming endangered.
What is habitat destruction, hunting, poaching, environmental changes, etc.?
This is a genre of story that is not true but could be true and is set during a particular time period.
What is historical fiction?