Definitions
Clue: This word means great difficulty or suffering.
What is hardship?
The detective carefully examined every piece of evidence to figure out what happened. Which word means to examine something in detail?
What is analyze?
If you want to find something you have lost, you might ______ it out.
What is seek?
Grandpa's garden gets plenty of sunlight and water, so the plants ______ and grow.
What is thrive?
Clue: Harry Potter, Percy Jackson, and Charlotte's Web are examples of stories about invented people, places, and events. What type of writing is this?
What is fiction?
This word means an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest.
What is defeat?
I didn't know what the word enormous meant, so I looked at the words around it for clues. Which vocab word describes the surrounding words/clues?
What is context?
A student says, “The dark clouds ______ that it might rain.” Which word means to be a sign of something?
What is indicate?
The team lost the championship game. Their ______ meant they did not win the contest.
What is defeat?
Clue: A student reads a long work of fiction that follows a character through many events. What is it called?
What is novel?
This word means the ability to recover after something difficult happens.
What is resilience?
Carlos had no proof that it would rain, but he ______ that he should bring an umbrella because the sky was dark. What word best fits in the blank?
What is assumed?
Clue: Your teacher asks, “What is your ______ for solving this problem?” Which word means an idea or action meant to deal with a problem?
What is approach?
Clue: Moving to a new country without knowing the language can be a great ______.
What is hardship?
Clue: A student reads a fictional story that is only a few pages long and focuses on one main event. What is it called?
What is a short story?
This word means noisy confusion caused by the excitement or agitation of a crowd.
What is tumult?
The teacher asked Mia to ______ or pull outwhat the author was trying to say by using clues from the story.
What is derive?
Clue: After discussing the evidence, the class decided what they believed had happened. Which word means to decide by reasoning?
What is conclude?
Clue: When the concert suddenly ended, hundreds of excited people began shouting and pushing toward the exits. There was a great deal of ______.
What is tumult?
Clue: Science fiction, mystery, and fantasy are different categories of stories. What vocabulary word means a specific category of literature, art, music, or film?
What is a subgenre?
This word means to determine and explain what something means (like a language)
What is interpret?
The students needed to ______ information from the library before they could finish their research project. Which word means to come into possession of something?
What is obtain?
Which word can mean to accept something as true even though you do not have proof that it is true?
What is assume?
Clue: After breaking her leg, Ava worked hard to recover and eventually returned to playing soccer. Her ability to recover showed great ______.
What is resilience?
“Before starting her science project, Lily looked for information about how volcanoes work.”
Which vocabulary word means to try to locate or discover something?
What is seek?