Unit 3 Academic Vocabulary
CommonLit Vocabulary
Unit 2 Vocabulary
Key Terms and Literary Devices
Synonyms
100

Worthy of praise.

What is commendable?

100

Making sense; reasonable.

What is logical?

100

Stiff and unbending.

What is rigid?

100

Comparing two things using like or as.

What is a simile?

100

Intense.

Vigorous.

200

To prove to be true.

What is verify?

200

Energetic; forceful.

What is vigorous?

200

A nervous, worried, or excited condition that makes relaxation impossible.

What is tension?

200

Writing about objects, actions and ideas in such a way that it appeals to any number of the five senses.

What is imagery?

200

Judge.

What is evaluate?

300

To guess without evidence.

What is speculate?

300

Fully in agreement.

What is unanimous?

300

In a nervous or worried way.

What is anxiously?

300

Representing a thing or idea with human qualities.

What is personification?

300

Allowed.

What is entitled?
400

A witty, sharp reply.

What is retort?

400

Fill in the blank: You're not ____ to my time.

What is entitled?

400

Holding back.

What is restraining?

400

The repetition of sounds.

What is alliteration?

400

Enrage.

What is provoke?

500

To correct or set right.

What is rectify?

500

Fill in the blank: The scientists didn't want to ____ on the origin of the new species.

What is speculate?

500

The sudden feeling that something bad is going to happen.

What is foreboding?

500

When the audience knows something that a character does not.

What is dramatic irony?

500

United.

What is unanimous?
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