Vocab Definitions
This word names a ghost or something haunting.
What is a specter?
within
What is intro?
This is a really, really long sentence.
What is a run-on sentence?
A good reader can __________ the hidden meaning of the author’s words
What is infer?
The Native Americans were placed into reservations, areas without enough _____________ soil to grow the crops they needed to feed themselves.
What is fertile?
This word means that something is notable.
What is spectacle?
Around
This connects words, phrases, or clauses in a sentence (FANBOYS).
What is a conjunction?
The actress was certain to win an Academy Award for her _______ performance in the drama.
What is superlative?
While I usually do my homework as early as I can, I ______________ my history reading until the last day so that I won’t forget it before taking the test.
What is deferred?
To spread, grow, or multiply very quickly
What is proliferate?
To carry
What is lat?
This is a group of words with a subject and predicate.
What is a complete sentence?
Regretting all his past mistakes, he sat thinking of his life in __________.
What is retrospect?
Yelling and stomping his feet, Michael was making a _______________ of himself in church.
What is spectacle?
To conclude based on facts, clues, or logic.
What is infer?
Down, away
What is de?
Since I can't eat.
What is a fragment?
She needed to do some serious __________ and look within to make the right choice for her future.
What is introspection
When a species of animal has no predators and plenty of food, they can ______________ into a huge population.
What is proliferate?
Highest degree of something
What is superlative?
Marked by
What is ile?
Ms. Zhang gets frustrated when students are talking over each other, don't listen, and cheat.
What is a comma?
Tim is usually very selective and __________ in his choice of friends; he looks around before he trusts someone
What is circumspect?
Only after a great deal of _________________ was I able to realize who I truly was inside.
What is introspection?