Chapter 1 Vocab
Chapter 2 Vocab
Chapter 3-6 Vocab
Chapter 3-6 Vocab
Author's Purpose
100
A group of people or organization with similar interests. Synonyms: band, clan, club, crew, network, partnership, section, division
What is Faction
100
A small or closed or closable vessel or container especially for liquids. Synonyms: beaker,bottle, can, canister, canteen, capsule, carafe, cauldron, flask, jar
What is Vial?
100
Something that is complicated or confusing. Synonyms: baffle, puzzle, surprise, bewilder
What is Perplexing?
100
Having a common center or center point, as circles or spheres.
What is Concentric?
100
The reason the author is writing.
What is Author's Purpose?
200
To come in rough contact while moving; to push or shove. Synonyms: bulldoze, bump heads, crash, elbow, hustle, jab, jolt, nudge, press, push, push around, push aside, rough and tumble, scramble, shove
What is Jostles?
200
To move with a violent twist, to undergo twisting. Synonyms: bend, contort, distort, tweak, twist
What is Wrenches?
200
Not leading to a firm conclusion leaving you in doubt or continued dispute. Synonyms: unconvincing, indecisive
What is Inconclusive?
200
A very steep rock face or cliff, typically a tall one. Synonyms: abyss - cliff - chasm - gulf
What is Precipice?
200
The stance or belief an author, narrator, or character will make in the story or text.
What is Point of View?
300
An excessive or unretrained gratification of one's own appetites, desires, or whims. Synonyms: decadent, hedonistic, parsimonious
What is Self Indulgent?
300
An act of losing power to the authority or control of another such as in a wrestling move. Synonyms: backing down, bowing, cringing, defeatism, giving in, nonresistance, obedience, passivity, resignation, surrender
What is Submission?
300
Having an irritatingly strong and unpleasant taste or smell. Angry or bitter. Synonyms: pungent, biting, acrimonious, bitter, sharp.
What is Acrid?
300
Put an end to; destroy. Synonyms: extirpate - uproot - exterminate - root out - destroy
What is Eradicate?
300
The acronym(s) to describe the reasons why an author writes (persuade, inform, entertain, explain, describe)
What is PIEE or PIED?
400
To reprimand or criticize harshly and usually angrily. Synonyms: chewing out, chiding, rating, rebuke, reprehension, reprimand, talking to
What is Scolding?
400
Not clearly seen or easily distinguished. Synonyms: concealed, confusing, doubtful, esoteric, far-out, hazy, hidden,incomprehensible, inconceivable, indistinct, inexplicable, inscrutable, mysterious, occult, opaque,
What is Obscurring?
400
Incapable of corruption, in other words not subject to decay or dissolution; incapable of being bribed or morally corrupted. Synonyms: honest, straight, up-right, honorable, just, trustworthy.
What is Incorruptible?
400
Not easily upset or excited. Calm and peaceful, with little movement or activity. Synonyms: quiet - calm - peaceful - tranquil - serene - still
What is Placid?
400
The reason why authors wrote Harry Potter books, Poems, narrative essays about the big game, or scripts for a tv show.
What is to Entertain?
500
The excessive belief in one's own abilities or attractiveness to self. Synonyms: arrogance, big-headedness, conceitedness, ego trip, narcissism, ostentation, pretension, self-admiration, self-love, self-worship, showing off, smugness
What is Vanity?
500
Not endowed with reason or understanding. Synonyms: brainless, delirious, demented, disconnected, foolish, freaky, incoherent, insane,kooky, loony, mad, mindless, nonsensical, nutty, off-the-wall, preposterous, reasonless, unreasonable, unreasoning, unstable, unthinking,
What is Irrational?
500
The quality of being similar or comparable in kind and nature. Synonyms: uniformity
What is Homogeneity?
500
Sit, lie, or fall with one's arms and legs spread out in an ungainly or awkward way; Spread out over a large area in an untidy way. Synonyms: flop, lie, lie spread-eagle, loll, lounge, ramble, recline, sit, slouch, slump, spread, straddle, straggle, stretch
What is Sprawling?
500
The reason why political speeches, advertisements, a cover letter to a resume, an essay urging readers to recycle are written.
What is to Persuade?
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