VOCAB 1
VOCAB 2
WORD STUDY
GRAMMAR
STRATEGIES AND SKILLS
100
A train car that pulls the other cars
What is a locomotive?
100
To look at carefully
What is to inspect?
100
The meaning of the prefix re-
What is to do again?
100
A word that is used in place of a noun
What is a pronoun?
100
To describe something as larger or greater than it really is
What is exaggeration?
200
A person who opens the way for others to follow
What is a pioneer?
200
The house, buildings, and land where a family lives
What is a homestead?
200
The meaning of the prefix pre-
What is to do before or in advance?
200
Examples of these words are: me, he, she, it, I, you
What is are singular pronouns?
200
An author uses ___________, or conversation, to help move the plot of the story along, to describe a setting, or describe characters
What is dialogue?
300
The action of becoming larger or spreading out
What is expansion?
300
The movement of people or animals from one location to another
What is migration?
300
A new word that is formed when one or two words are shortened by replacing some of the letters with an apostrophe
What is a contraction?
300
They, we, our, their and you are all examples of _______________.
What are plural pronouns?
300
To understand why the author wrote the text, a reader makes _____________ about the _____________.
What is makes inferences about the author's purpose?
400
To trade goods or services for other goods or services
What is to barter?
400
To go up or climb up
What is to ascend?
400
The two words that are shortened to make the new word they've
What they and have?
400
A ____________ replaces a noun that is the subject of the sentence.
What is a subject pronoun?
400
Stories whose settings are in a specific time in history and in a historical place
What is historical fiction?
500
A place where nothing lives or a place that is empty or bare is a _____________ place
What is desolate?
500
A way of life
What is an existence?
500
Prefixes change ________________ of the root word.
What is the meaning?
500
A _____________ replaces a noun that is the object in a sentence: it usually follows an action verb.
What is an object pronoun?
500
Exaggeration used for humor or to point out something important, such as "Hungry as a bear ."
What is hyperbole?
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