Academic Vocabulary
To shorten a word
WHAT IS ABBREVIATE?
This is a passing score on the ELPAC.
WHAT IS 4?
This is a word that stands for a person, place, or thing.
What is a NOUN?
To carry.
What is PORT?
This is the biggest mammal on planet earth.
What is the blue whale?
To evaluate a situation.
WHAT IS ASSESS?
The four domains the ELPAC tests.
What are LISTENING, SPEAKING, READING and WRITING?
This is an action word.
What is a VERB?
To replenish fluids.
What is HYDRATE?
This is 20% of a $15 bill.
What is $3?
To make something more clear.
What is CLARIFY?
This is the semester when the ELPAC is given.
What is SPRING?
This is a word used to describe a verb.
WHAT IS AN ADVERB?
These are also known as spectacles.
WHAT ARE GLASSES?
This is the scientific classification of animals in the frog family.
What are AMPHIBIANS?
An incomplete piece of a sentence.
WHAT IS A FRAGMENT?
This is what EL stands for.
What is ENGLISH LEARNER?
Examples include: built, wept, slept and felt.
What are IRREGULAR PAST TENSE verbs?
This is the Greek root for hand.
What is MAN or MANU?
He is the god of the underworld in Greek mythology.
Who is HADES?
Not abstract.
What is CONCRETE?
What ELPAC stands for.
What is an abbreviation for ENGLISH LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY ASSESSMENTS for CALIFORNIA?
Examples include: getting, greeting, worrying, smoking.
What are GERUNDS?
This is the word for dead body.
What is corpse?
This is the month that Julius Cesar was stabbed in.
What is MARCH?