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Vocab Rev 1-10 '14
100 Words from Ten tests
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Trace | Outline, list the steps |
| Analyze | Break apart, Study the Pieces |
| Infer | A Good Guess, Read Between the Lines |
| Evaluate | Judge, In Your Own Words |
| Formulate | Put Together, Create |
| Describe | Tell All About |
| Support | Give the Facts, Back Up With Details |
| Explain | Tell How, Put in Your Own Words |
| Summarize | Sum It Up, Give Me the Short Version |
| Predict | Make a Guess, What Will Happen Next |
| extravagant | excessive, going beyond reasonable bounds |
| tangible | able to be touched or felt |
| leaden | heavy and sad |
| sullen | gloomy, sad, in a bad mood |
| timorous | Scared, reluctant |
| moderation | Not going to extremes. |
| Discrete data | Information with only a finite or specific number of values possible |
| Continuous data | Information with an infinite or unlimited number of values possible |
| compare | tell the differences and similarities |
| contrast | tell the differences |
| Antagonists | people or forces that work against the main character of a story(e.g., other characters, nature, setting, inner thoughts, etc.) |
| Characterization | the author’s means of conveying to the reader a character’s personality, life history, values, physical attributes, motives, etc. |
| Conflict | a tension or struggle between opposing forces (e.g., character vs. self, person, society, nature, or fate) |
| Dialogue | the words spoken aloud by characters in the story |
| Mood | the atmosphere or emotional condition created by the piece (e.g., gloomy, tense, silly, suspenseful, somber, etc.) |
| Narrator | the voice which is used to tell the story |
| Plot | the sequence of events in a story |
| Protagonist | the main character of a story |
| Setting | where and when a story is taking place |
| Tone | the attitude or emotions of the speaker/narrator as conveyed through language and sentence structure |
| Narrative Structure | the five segments that a story’s plot can be divided into, often represented by a mountain or pyramid shape |
| exposition | important background information is presented (about setting, events occurring before the main plot, characters’ back stories, etc.) |
| rising action | the series of events that sets up and leads to the climax |
| climax | the turning point in the story when the tension and conflict is the most dramatic |
| falling action | the conflict winds down and the author provides answers to unresolved questions or mysteries |
| resolution/denouement | the final outcome, which usually involves a return to normalcy for the characters and a release of tension and anxiety for the reader |
| Point-of-view | the identity of the narrative voice |
| First-Person | narrated by a character in the story (reliable or unreliable) |
| Third-Person | narrated by an abstract voice that is not a character in the story |
| Omniscient | the narrator has knowledge of all character's inner thoughts |
| canyon | a deep and narrow valley with steep walls |
| cape | a point of land that extends into a river, lake or ocean |
| lake | a sizable inland body of water |
| mesa | broad, flat-topped landform with steep sides; smaller than a plateau |
| mountain | land with steep sides that rises sharply (1,000 feet or more) from surrounding land; generally larger and more rugged than a hill |
| basin | an area of land drained by a given river and its branches; an area of land surrounded by lands of higher elevations |
| ocean | one of the 4 major bodies of salt water that surround the continents |
| pastor | a minister or priest in charge of a church or parish |
| imams | Muslim religious leaders |
| priest | Christian religious leader |
| mouth (of a river) | a place where a stream or river flows into a larger body of water |
| bay | the part of a large body of water that extends into a shoreline |
| source (of a river) | a place where a river or stream begins |
| strait | a narrow stretch of water joining 2 larger bodies of water |
| Tributary | a small river or stream that flows into a large river or stream; a branch of the river |
| gulf | part of a large body of water that extends into a shoreline |
| peninsula | a body of land jutting into a lake or ocean, surrounded on 3 sides by water |
| hill | elevated land with sloping sides and a rounded summit; generally smaller than a mountain |
| island | a land area, smaller than a continent, completely surrounded by water |
| isthmus | a narrow stretch of land connecting 2 larger land areas |
| Objective | Something worked toward or striven for; a goal. |
| Rubric | A tool to assess work describing different levels of performance. |
| Evaluation | Examining and carefully judging something |
| Assessment | An activity that shows what you know and can do. |
| Geography | the study of the earth in all its variety—human and natural—focusing on how locations affect all other aspects of a place. |
| Standard | A degree or level of requirement, excellence, or attainment |
| Strategy | A way of doing something difficult |
| Percent | Out of each hundred, per hundred |
| Grammar | Rules of language and how words and punctuation combine to form sentences. |
| Punctuation | The standard marks and signs, besides letters, in writing and printing |
| Climate | Typical weather of a region |
| Humid | Damp; with a relatively high level of moisture in the air |
| Temperate | Without extremes, has a range of temperatures within moderate limits |
| Frigid | Very cold |
| Tundra | The level or nearly level treeless plain between the ice cap and the timber line of North America, Europe, and Asia that has permanently frozen subsoil |
| Steppe | An extensive, usually treeless plain, often dry and grass-covered |
| Savanna | A flat grassland, sometimes with scattered trees, in a tropical or subtropical region |
| Marine | Relating to, found in, or living in the sea |
| Tropical | Very hot and often combined with a high degree of humidity |
| Biome | A division of the world's vegetation that corresponds to a defined climate and is characterized by specific types of plants and animals |
| Implore | to beg |
| Primly | stiffly; daintily |
| recede | to move backward; to withdraw |
| rueful | sad |
| venture | bold or risky act |
| anguish | extreme pain or sorrow |
| helter-skelter | without order; messy |
| Immense | very large |
| Melancholy | Depressed |
| Pickle | difficult situation |
| axis | straight line around which something rotates |
| fragrant | sweet-smelling |
| teeming | filled to overflowing |
| accomplice | assistant to a crime |
| arc | curved path |
| ebb | to decrease in force or level |
| impulse | sudden act |
| indefinitely | for an unlimited time |
| ponderous | of great weight |
| pry | to pull by using a lever |
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