Figurative Language
Greek and Latin Roots
Reading vocab
Math vocab
Test taking tips
100

This is an extreme exaggeration. 

What is hyperbole?

100

This latin root means water.

What is aqua?

100

This word means a lesson, especially one concerning what is right, that can be derived from a story, a piece of information, or an experience.

What is moral?

100

This is a number that is only divisible by itself and one

What is prime?

100

Name 2 things you can do at home to make sure you are ready to test.

What are: get a good night sleep, eat a hearty breakfast (accept reasonable answer)

200

This is a comparison using like or as.

What is a simile?

200

This latin root means to see or look.

What is spec?

200

This word means a thing that is accepted as true or as certain to happen, without proof.

What is assumption?

200

A whole number that can be made by multiplying other whole numbers. In other words, more than one and itself can go into this whole number

What is composite?

200

When there is a long passage and several questions, what should you do before you read the passage?

What is read the question(s)?

300

This is a comparison that does not use like or as. Example, the sun is a yellow ball in the sky.

What is metaphor?

300

This latin root means foot.

What is ped?

300

This word means to build or erect (something, typically a building, road, or machine, but it could be a written answer too)

What is construct?

300

This is a fraction in which the numerator is greater than the denominator,

What is fraction greater than one?

300

This is you do when you get stuck, cannot figure out the answer, and are starting to get frustrated.

What is skip the question and come back to it.

400

A phrase that means something different than its literal meaning.

What is an idiom?

400

This greek root means heat.

What is therm?

400

This word means to make sure or demonstrate that (something) is true, accurate, or justified.

What is verify?

400

This triangle has 2 equal sides.

What is isosceles?

400

This is what you do when you come to a multiple choice question that you don't know the answer to.

What is eliminate the answers you can and then choose what you think is the best answer.

500

A future event is mentioned earlier in a story, or makes you predict what might be coming 

What is foreshadow?

500

This greek root means to write.

What is graph?

500

This word means to examine methodically and in detail the constitution or structure of something

What is analyze?

500

This shape has 7 sides.

What is a heptagon?

500

This is what you do when you think you are done with the test.

What is go back and recheck your work and make sure you have answered every question to the best of your ability.

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