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Key PSSA vocabulary
Reading Vocabulary
Writing Vocabulary
Math Vocabulary
Science Vocabulary
100
To tell about or make known in advance, especially on the basis of present knowledge to foretell.
What is Predict?
100
A story told through dialogue and actions (plays).
What is Drama?
100
Not relating to an issue or that which does not support an issue.
What is Irrelevant?
100
Replace a numerical expression with its simplest name.
What is Simplify?
100
The tendency for a system to remain in a state of equilibrium by resisting change.
What is Homeostasis?
200
To follow the successive stages in the development of.
What is Trace?
200
Words or phrases that aren't literally what they mean; used to represent ideas.
What is Figurative Language?
200
An adjective, adverb, phrase, or clause that describes/modifies other words in the sentence.
What is a Modifier?
200
The rate for one unit of a given quantity.
What is Unit Rate?
200
An assertion subject to verification or proof as a premise from which a conclusion is drawn.
What is Hypothesis
300
To restate briefly.
What is Summarize?
300
Examples to support or prove something.
What is Evidence?
300
Evidence that is pertinent and that supports a given claim.
What is Relevant?
300
A mathematical sentence that contains greater than, less than, greater than and equal to, less that and equal to, or not equal.
What is an Inequality?
300
The sequential differentiation and segregation of replicated chromosomes in a cell's nucleus that precedes complete cell division.
What is Mitosis?
400
To find out, judge, or estimate value or worth of.
What is Evaluate?
400
Related to a topic / not related to a topic.
What is Relevant / Irrelevant?
400
Evidence that is adequate to support.
What is Sufficient?
400
A set of positive whole numbers, their opposites and 0
What are Integers?
400
Search for understanding the natural world using inquiry and experimentation.
What is Science?
500
To conclude form evidence; deduce.
What is Infer?
500
To recognize something clearly.
What is Distinguish?
500
As established by the writer, the attitude that is expressed toward the audience and topic through a piece of writing.
What is Tone?
500
What should happen in theory.
What is Theoretical probability?
500
A nonliving factor or element (e.g., light, water, heat, rock, energy, mineral).
What is Abiotic?