Vocabulary Words that are Adjectives
What is an adjective?
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate vocab word:
When you wrote the 10 sentence setting descriptions in your projects for "The Run," we asked that you include a lot of ________ so that readers could visualize where your story took place.
Details
If your teacher asks you to draw a picture of the setting in the book you are reading, they are asking you to _________.
Illustrate
Counterclaim
This vocabulary word is similar to excerpt, but means "a short piece of writing."
Passage
What vocabulary word has the following definition?: Suitable or proper, given the situation.
Appropriate
This vocab word is the action that a food critic does or what teachers do when they grade students' work.
Critique
When you answer a question on an ELA test, you may have to _________ why your answer is correct using textual evidence.
Explain
An example of using _______ from the text to support your response is using a quote from the text and then explaining how the quote relates to your answer.
Evidence
This vocabulary word means, "The feeling a reader gets from a writing."
Mood
What vocabulary word has the following definition?: Special or unique to something
Specific
Fill in the blank with the correct vocab word:
I needed to ________ the books by their genre before putting them on the bookshelf, so that all genres will be together.
*Hint: A synonym of this word is classify
Categorize
Infer
Synonyms of this vocabulary word include "evaluation" and "review."
Critique
An antonym of this vocabulary word is "opinion."
Fact
When finding articles to use as sources for research projects, you need to make sure your sources are _______ and reliable.
Credible
What is the best vocab word to fill in the blank?:
If someone doesn't understand your explanation for something, you need to ________ and make it more clearly understood.
Clarify
What vocab term has the definition "a restatement of a passage or text in somewhat different words to simplify or clarify its meaning"?
*Hint: It is similar to summarizing, but it is for a shorter amount of text.
Paraphrase
The following is an ________ from "The Run":
"Everything went black. When Dennis’s eyes reopened, Mac was gripping the wheel and yelling his name. Like a grotesque puppetmaster, Anna’s leg wriggled into the cab, pulling the rest of her along with it."
Excerpt
Credible examples of these that you could use in a research paper include websites ending in ".org" and ".edu," published journals, or statistics that have been verified.
Source
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The student asked a question about hippos in gym class, and the teacher was frustrated because the random question was not ___________ to what they were learning.
Relevant
What vocabulary word has the following definition?:
To describe in detail; to state the exact limits or extent of something.
Delineate
When you combine multiple ideas from various credible sources in one research paper, what action are you doing?
Synthesizing
Standard ____________ of English that you will be tested on during the PSSAs include areas such as capitalizing the word "I," having proper punctuation at the end of a sentence, and spelling words correctly.
Conventions
A boss wrote in an email to his employee, "Please submit your report by the end of the business day on Friday. Thank you."
Based on the boss's word choice, we can tell that the ________ of the email is formal and serious.
Tone