Vocabulary
Editing
Editing Checklist
Analogies
Context Clues
100
Two words that share the same meaning.
What are synonyms?
100
Correct this sentence: Even though lighthouses have changed over the years,  there work is not very different.  
What is change "there" to "their?"
100
1. The beginning of every sentence 2. Names of people and places 3. Titles
What is capitalize?
100
Ant : six legs :: spider : _________________________.
What is eight legs?
100
Many ships have vanished during hurricanes. No survivors from the lost ships have ever been found. A synonym for vanished.
What is disappeared?
200
To inform, to explain or to persuade.
What is author's purpose?
200
Correct this sentence: Most lighthouses can be found on rocky coasts,  and those rocks could wreck ships if they sailed to close.
What is change "to" to "too?"
200
1. At the end of a declarative sentence. 2. After abbreviations
What is a period?
200
Goose : flock :: fish : ___________________.
What is school?
200
I took the tome off the bookshelf and opened it to page 94. Then I began to read. A synonym for tome
What is book?
300
Joins two complete thoughts with a comma and a conjunction.
What is a compound sentence?
300
Correct this sentence: The many odors that floated through the air only  come once a year and I did not want to miss a thing.
What is add a comma after year?
300
1. To separate items in a series. 2. To join compound sentences. 3. To separate the day and year.
What is a comma?
300
petrified : ________ ::  elegant : beautiful
What is frozen?
300
Hurricanes and tornadoes are treacherous. Only a very foolish person would go out during that kind of weather. A synonym for treacherous.
What is dangerous?
400
A commonly used expression or phrase that is understood figuratively, not literally.
What is an idiom?
400
Correct this sentence: When you yell, "Hello," a little explosion of air flys out of your mouth.
What is change "flys" to "flies?"
400
1. In contractions 2. To show ownership
What is an apostrophe?
400
push : pull :: repel : _________
What is attract?
400
I'm really hungry! That apple didn't appease my hunger. I want a sandwich now. A synonym for appease
What is satisfy?
500
A meaning that the reader understands from a text, although the author does not expressly state it.
What is an inference?
500
Correct this sentence: When it bounced back to your side of the canyon, it will  bounce back again to the other side.
What is change "bounced" to "bounces?"
500
1. To show the exact words of a speaker. 2. Around names of magazine and newspaper articles, chapters in a book, songs, and poems.
What are quotation marks?
500
costly : expensive :: passionate : _________
What is enthusiastic?
500
Our new puppy was so rambunctious; all she wanted to do was run in circles around the house. A synonym for rambunctious
What is energetic?
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