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1st quarter
These are the academic words for 1st quarter
Term | Definition |
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analyze | To discover or reveal something though detailed examination. |
audience | Spectators or listeners. |
capitalize | To make a lower case letter to a capital letter. |
central idea | The idea of the story. |
character | A person in a novel, play or movie. |
cite | To say where you got your information. |
comma | A punctuation mark indicating a pause in the sentence. |
conclusion | Summing up of specific details of a text. |
connotation/denotation | Connotation- The feeling that the word suggest Denotation- The dictionary definition of a word. |
conventions | Punctuation and grammar |
coordinate adjective | Are adjectives that appear in sequence with one another to modify the same noun. |
elaborate | Very detailed |
elicit | To evoke or draw out. |
evidence | The facts or information indicating whether a belief or proposition is true or valid |
formal style | Academic words and phrases |
inference | An educated guess |
main idea | Important information that tells more about the overall idea of a paragraph or section |
objective | A goal. |
parts of speech | The main parts of speech are noun, pronoun, adjective, determiner, verb, adverb, preposition, conjunction, and interjection. |
plot | The main events of a play, novel, movie, etc. |
prefix | The word placed before the root word. |
pre-write | To write before. |
punctuate | To insert marks indicating the ending of a sentence. |
purpose | The reason for which something is done. |
reflect | To look back on. |
relevant | Closely connected or appropriate to the problem at hand |
revise | Reconsider or alter. |
rhyme | Correspondence of sound between words. |
role | A character in a movie, book. etc. |
root | Base word. |
stanza | A paragraph in a pome |
style | A manner of doing something |
suffix | The word added to the end of the root word. |
summary | A brief statement of the main points of a story. |
supporting detail | Gives us the full detail. |
technical meaning | The literal meaning. |
theme | The lesson the story tells us. |
tone | The attitude of a place, piece of writing, or situation. |
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