Definitions
This adjective means "accessible and ready for use or service."
What is available?
"The teacher made sure every student had a pencil before the test began." Which vocabulary word best replaces "made sure"?
What is ensure?
This noun means "the number that is greater than half of the total."
What is majority?
“The available seats were quickly filled.”
What part of speech is available?
What is an adjective?
This term means writing about invented people, places, and events.
What is fiction
“After the argument, the students felt ______ knowing that their teacher would help them solve the problem.” Which vocabulary word means safe, comfortable, or free from fear or doubt?
What is Secure?
Clue: This verb means "to make certain of."
What is ensure?
"Only students with permission could enter the room." Which vocabulary word best describes what the rule did to other students?
What is exclude?
This noun means a system of ranking according to status, power, or importance.
What is hierarchy?
“The students will convene after lunch.”
What part of speech is convene?
What is a verb?
This is a long work of fiction.
What is a novel?
Clue: Which vocabulary word can mean “to be in control of” OR “to be larger in number, quantity, or power”?
Answer: What is dominate?
This verb means "to have confidence or faith in someone or something."
What is rely?
"The team knew they could count on their captain during a difficult game." Which vocabulary word best describes the team's confidence in the captain?
What is rely?
This noun means the state of having power or control over someone or something.
What is dominance?
Clue: “The team hoped to secure a victory.”
What part of speech is secure?
What is a verb?
This is a short work of fiction that focuses on a small number of events or on just one event.
What is a short story?
Clue: Which vocabulary word can mean either “to give someone a companion” or “a companion in an activity or journey”?
Answer: What is partner?
This adjective means "possible; capable of happening or becoming real."
What is potential?
"The new student could become an excellent athlete someday." Which vocabulary word describes what the student has? (Hint: a capable student has...)
What is potential?
Clue: Oil and water can both be examples of this: something valuable that comes naturally from the Earth.
What is a resource?
Name the part of speech of potential in each sentence. (half points for getting one out of two right)
1. “The potential winner practiced every day.”
2. "I was so excited when my coach told me I had the potential to be a great player."
1. What is adjective?
2. What is noun?
This term means a specific category of literature, art, music, or film.
What is a subgenre?
Clue: Which vocabulary word means “to place limits on” and can also mean “to prevent someone from doing something”?
Answer: What is restrict?
This verb means "to prevent someone from being included, considered, or accepted."
What is exclude?
"The school limited the number of students allowed in the gym at one time." Which vocabulary word best describes what the school did?
What is restrict?
A person who is honorable, good, helpful to others, and admirable could be described with this adjective.
What is noble?
Name the part of speech of partner in each sentence. (half points for getting one out of two right)
1. “We decided to partner with another class for the project”
2."My lab partner accidentally forgot his safety glasses and couldn't do the experiment"
1. What is verb?
2. What is noun?
A student is reading a lengthy fictional book that took place in World War II. In the story, a young girl lives with her foster parents and steals books from a neighbor's library so she can learn to read when resources grow scarce. What subgenre would best describe this story, and what type of story is it (novel, short story, or fable)?
What is a historical fiction novel?
Clue: Which noun describes the state of having power or control over someone or something?
Answer: What is dominance?