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semester 2 voc words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Distract | Draw attention away in another direction. |
| Emerged | Came into view; became visible. |
| Huddled | Crowed or nestled close together. |
| Reproach | Disgrace; blame. |
| Conspired | Planned together secretly. |
| Devastated | Destroyed; completely upset. |
| Character | A person or animal who takes part in the action of a literary work. |
| Character Motives | The emotions or goals that drive him or her to act way or another. |
| Character Traits | The individual qualities that make each character unique. |
| Characterization | Create and develop characters. |
| Direct Characterization | The writer describes states or describes the character's traits. |
| Indirect Characterization | The writer reveals a character's personality through his or her words and actions, and through the thoughts, words, and actions of others. |
| Elective | Optional course. |
| Scowl | Make an unpleasant expression by contracting the eyebrows and lowering the corners of the mouth. |
| Conviction | Belivef |
| Solemn | Serious; somber |
| Affects | Produces an effect on; causes a change |
| Inferences | Are logical assumptions about info. or ideas that are not directly stated. |
| Conclude | To from an opinion or make judgement on evidence presented. |
| Subject | The main idea or topic |
| Object | A thing can be seen or touched |
| Credible | Easy to believe |
| Perpective | An assessment of a situation, especially from one |
| Interplanetory | Between planets |
| Awe | Mixed feelings of fear and wonder |
| Expense | Financial cost |
| Senstive | Easily hurt |
| Meek | Timid, not showing anger |
| Coax | Use gentle persuasion |
| Laborious | Taking much work or effort |
| Exertion | Physical work |
| Presumptuous | Overconfident arrogant |
| Recognize Details | To form inferences |
| Conflict | A struggle between opposing forces |
| External Conflict | A character struggles with an outside force such as another character or nature |
| Internal Conflict | A character struggles with herself or himself t overcome opposing feelings, beliefs, needs, or desires. |
| Rash | Thoughtless reckless |
| Remote | Far away from everything else |
| Malicias | Spiteful; hateful |
| Devastating | Destructive; Overwhelming |
| Perpetual | Constant unending |
| Dispelled | Driven away made to disappear |
| Evading | Avoiding |
| Interplanetory | Between planets |
| Awe | Mixed feelings of fear and wonder |
| Expense | Financial cost |
| Sensitive | Easily hurt |
| Meek | Timid not showing anger |
| Coax | use gentle persuasion |
| Laborious | Taking much work or effort |
| Exertion | Physical work |
| Irony | Involves a contradiction or contrast of some kind |
| Simultaneously Irony | Something takes place that a character or reader does not expect to happen |
| Verbal Irony | A writer speaker, or character says something that deliberately contradicts what he or she actually means |
| Spectators | Onlookers |
| Intricate | Complex; detailed |
| Destiny | Fate; pre-planned course of events |
| Simultaneously | At the same time |
| Apparent | Seeming |
| Plausible | Seeming true ; acceptable |
| Proposal | Plan; offer |
| Leters /journals | Contain personal thoughts and reflections |
| Biographies/auto | Life stories |
| Autobiography | Is a writer account of his or her own life. |
| Media Accounts | Are nonfiction, works written for newspapors maginzes TV or radio |
| Essays/Articles | Are short nonfiction works about a particular subject. |
| Expository Writing | Presents facts discusses ideas or explians a process |
| Persuasive Writing | Is meant to convince the reader to adopt a particular point of view or take a particular course of action |
| Reflective Writing | Address an event or experience and includes the writers insights about the events importance. |
| Humorous Writing | Is meant to enterain and evoke laughter |
| Narrative Writing | Tells about real-life experiences |
| Descriptive Writing | Appeals to the five senses |
| Analytical Writing | Breaks a large idea into parts to help the reader see how they work together as a whole. |
| Chronological Organization | Presents details in time order from first to last or sometimes form last to first. |
| Comparison-and-contrast organization | Shows the relationship among events |
| Problem-and-effect organization | a problem and then proposes a |
| Main Idea | Central point of a passage or text |
| Relevant | Having a logical connection with |
| Irrelevant | Having a connection with |
| Significant | Not having a connection with |
| Insignificant | Having little or no meaning |
| Identify | Recognize something and be able to stay it is? |
| Spines | Backbones |
| Feeble | Weak; infirm |
| Blander | More tastless |
| Elaboration | Adding of more detials |
| Murmuring | Making low, indistinct, continuous sounds |
| Parallel | Extending in the same direction and at the same distance apart |
| Indispensable | Absolutely necessary |
| Skim | Look over the text quickly, to get a sense of the main idea before you began reading |
| Read closely | To learn what the main ideas are |
| Scan | Run your eyes over the text, to find answers to questions, to clarify, or to find supporting details |
| Reflective Essay | Is a brief prose work that presents a writers feelings and thoughts or reflections about an experience or idea. |
| Distant | Separate and different |
| Communal | Shared by all |
| Justifies | Excuses |
| Promote | Encourage contribute |
| Anonymous | Unaknowledged by someone whose name is withheld or unknown |
| Profusely | Freely plentifully |
| Radiant | Shining Brightly |
| Hindered | Held back |
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