These are the good things that result from something.
What are benefits?
100
These are the seven words we refer to as the FANBOYS.
What are for, and, nor, but, or, yet, and so.
100
This is the first sentence of an essay's introduction that should catch the reader's attention.
What is a hook?
100
This is when you read very quickly to try to pick out the main idea of a text.
What is skimming?
100
This is the number of residents a city must have in order to qualify as a 'megacity'.
What is 10 million?
200
This is an adjective that we use to describe something that exists all over the world.
What is global?
200
Part of a sentence that begins with 'if' is one of these.
What is a dependent clause?
200
This sentence appears at the end of the introductory paragraph and contains the main idea/writer's position of the essay.
What is the thesis statement?
200
This is a reading strategy in which you read very quickly through a text looking for specific information.
What is scanning?
200
This is how people greet each other in India.
What is 'namaste'?
300
This is an adjective that describes behavior that is not suitable for a particular situation.
What is inappropriate?
300
This is the name for the punctuation mark that may separate two independent clauses.
What is a semi-colon.
300
This is the 'crime' of copying someone's ideas or words.
What is plagiarism?
300
These are the parts of a text you should look at when you preview.
What are title, pictures, captions, graphics...
300
This is an adjective that describes a menu that includes foods from many different cuisines.
What is eclectic?
400
This verb means to leave a place.
What is abandon?
400
This is the name we give sentences that do not include an independent clause.
What is a fragment?
400
This is the quality that every good paragraph has. It means that every sentence connects to the main idea or topic sentence.
What is unity?
400
This is a strategy in which you read source material and then write the ideas using your own words.
What is paraphrasing?
400
This is the name of a diet in which people eat simple foods like those eaten by relatively poor, agrarian people.
What is the peasant diet?
500
This is a noun that refers to the framework and facilities in a society or organization. It includes things like roads, power lines, water service, etc.
What is infrastructure?
500
This is the name we give words such as 'before', 'because', 'unless', and 'even though'.
What is a subordinator?
500
These are the two things that a conclusion should have.
What are restatement of the main idea and a strong final statement?
500
This is the part of an author's name you should use inside parentheses ( ) when citing a source/author.
What is the last name/family name?
500
This is what generally happens to a society's diet as it becomes more affluent.