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ELA Unit 2
The Wise Old Woman
| Definition | |
|---|---|
| prediction | a logical guess about what future events might happen |
| confirm | or proves, |
| text feature | the table of contents, headers, and bold words, as well as visual elements such as maps, charts, and diagrams in your textbook |
| genre characteristic | the qualities that define certain types of writing, can also help readers make predictions |
| arrogant | having or revealing an exaggerated sense of one's own importance or abilities. |
| banished | send (someone) away from a country or place as an official punishment |
| deceive | cause (someone) to believe something that is not true, typically in order to gain some personal advantage. |
| commotion | a state of confused and noisy disturbance |
| commended | to praise or to recommend in approval |
| theme | the subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition |
| topic | a matter dealt within a text, or conversation; a subject |
| infer | deduce or conclude (information) from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements |