- Action Verbs
Clue: This verb means “to look closely to understand something.”
Answer: What is analyze?
Clue: This word means “belonging to them.”
Answer: What is their?
Clue: This adjective means “important.”
Answer: What is significant
Clue: This verb means “to show how something works.”
Answer: What is demonstrate?
Clue: This is the message or lesson of a story.
Answer: What is theme?
Clue: This verb means “to show how things are alike.”
Answer: What is compare?
Clue: This word means “also” or “very.”
Answer: What is too?
Clue: This adjective means “clear and detailed.”
Answer: What is vivid?
Clue: This verb means “to recognize or name something.”
Answer: What is identify?
Clue: This is where and when a story takes place.
Answer: What is setting?
Clue: This verb means “to tell the main points of something.”
Answer: What is summarize?
Clue: This word means “belonging to you.”
Answer: What is your?
Clue: This adjective means “can be trusted.”
Answer: What is reliable?
Clue: This verb means “to judge or decide the value of something.”
Answer: What is evaluate?
Clue: This is the struggle or problem in a story.
Answer: What is conflict
Clue: This verb means “to make a guess based on clues.”
Answer: What is infer?
Answer: What is infer?
Clue: This word means “next” or “afterward.”
Answer: What is then?
Clue: This adjective means “related to the topic.”
Answer: What is relevant?
Clue: This verb means “to explain the meaning of something.”
Answer: What is interpret?
Clue: This is a comparison using “like” or “as.”
Answer: What is a simile?
Clue: This verb means “to improve writing by changing ideas or wording.”
Answer: What is revise?
Clue: This word means “belonging to it.”
Answer: What is its?
Clue: This adjective means “energetic or changing.”
Answer: What is dynamic?
Clue: This adjective means “energetic or changing.”
Answer: What is dynamic?
Clue: This is when the author gives hints about what will happen later.
Answer: What is foreshadowing?