6th GRADE VOCABULARY

SYNONYMS

100

HYPOTHESIS

What is big idea?

200

DEFIANCE

What is resistance?

300

NARRATE

What is to tell a story?

400

AUTHENTIC

What is real?

500

ANALYZE

What is to observe?

ANTONYMS

100

ANTAGONIST

What is protagonist? 

200

EXPENSIVE

What is cheap, inexpensive, etc.? 

300

MASSIVE

What is small, tiny, petite, etc.?

400

APPEAR

What is to vanish, leave, disappear, etc.?

500

ABSTRACT

What is real?

DEFINITIONS

100

ARRAY

What is an arrangement of objects, pictures, or numbers in columns and rows

200

PLOT

What is the structure or organization of events that make up a story

300

EXPOSITION

What is the beginning of a story where the conflict, characters and setting are introduced

400

RISING ACTION

What is the part of a story that begins to develop the conflict(s)

500

CLIMAX

What is the turning point of a story

Definitions Dos

100

FALLING ACTION

What is the part of the story that happens after the climax

200

RESOLUTION

What is the conclusion of the story

300

AREA

What is a measure of the how much space there is on a flat surface

400

HYDROLOGY

What is the study of water

500

CHRONOLOGICAL

What is to order items by the order they happen in

Greek/Latin Roots

100

-ology

What is the study of?

200

-phobia 

What is the fear of?

300

Auto-

What is self?

400

Chron-

What is time?

500

-meter

What is measurement?