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Inferences & New Words
Main Ideas & Differences
Organization & Mechanics
Style & Research
Microcosm
100
This is made by combining schema and observations.
What is an inference?
100
This means finding similarities.
What is comparing?
100
This is the correct spelling of the word that means to elect someone again.
What is r-e-e-l-e-c-t?
100
This is the place to go when you need to know the meaning of the prefix pseudo-.
What is a dictionary?
100
It is the punctuation that shows strong emotion.
What is an exclamation point?
200
By looking at the text before and after an unknown word, a reader would be using these.
What are context clues?
200
This means finding differences.
What is contrasting?
200
This is the sentence that tells the reader the main idea of the paragraph.
What is the topic sentence?
200
This is a school ceremony during May where the tone is usually formal and serious.
What is graduation?
200
It is a great place to get a hard copy of information about very current events.
What is a newspaper?
300
This is how someone would feel if his teeth were clenched, his hands were squeezed into hammerlike fists, and his pulse were racing.
What is angry?
300
A citizen would recite this in order to promise loyalty to the United States.
What is the Pledge of Allegiance?
300
This is the punctuation that lets people know that the writer is using someone else's words.
What are quotation marks?
300
This is the letter of encyclopedia volume you would want to grab if you needed information about the author Clive Staples Lewis.
What is L?
300
They surround an unnecessary appositive.
What are commas?
400
This is what chagrin means in the sentence: Suzanne's face flushed red with chagrin when she tripped on the steps during her beauty pagent.
What is embarrassment?
400
This is the main similarity between men and women.
What is humanity?
400
This is the word to fill the blank: Each of the girls must leave _________ purse in a locker.
What is the word her?
400
Some examples of these include Google, Bing, and Yahoo.
What is a search engine?
400
It is the punctuation mark that shows ownership.
What is an apostrophe?
500
By using word parts, we can see that this the meaning of trioptic in the sentence: Percy had to fight a trioptic beast before he could enter the cave.
What is three-eyed?
500
Republicans want smaller government with less interference, while Democrats want larger government to take care of the people better.
What is the main difference between Republicans and Democrats?
500
They are the sentences that validate the topic sentence.
What are supporting details?
500
They are the group of people most likely to enjoy physical comedy, such as people tripping.
Who are children?
500
It is a document whose main idea is to let King George III know that the American colonies no longer belong to him.
What is the Declaration of Independence?