Unit 3 Academic Vocabulary
Worthy of praise.
What is commendable?
Making sense; reasonable.
What is logical?
Stiff and unbending.
What is rigid?
Comparing two things using like or as.
What is a simile?
Intense.
Vigorous.
To prove to be true.
What is verify?
Energetic; forceful.
What is vigorous?
A nervous, worried, or excited condition that makes relaxation impossible.
What is tension?
Writing about objects, actions and ideas in such a way that it appeals to any number of the five senses.
What is imagery?
Judge.
What is evaluate?
To guess without evidence.
What is speculate?
Fully in agreement.
What is unanimous?
In a nervous or worried way.
What is anxiously?
Representing a thing or idea with human qualities.
What is personification?
Allowed.
A witty, sharp reply.
What is retort?
Fill in the blank: You're not ____ to my time.
What is entitled?
Holding back.
What is restraining?
The repetition of sounds.
What is alliteration?
Enrage.
What is provoke?
To correct or set right.
What is rectify?
Fill in the blank: The scientists didn't want to ____ on the origin of the new species.
What is speculate?
The sudden feeling that something bad is going to happen.
What is foreboding?
When the audience knows something that a character does not.
What is dramatic irony?
United.