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Unit 3 Vocabulary
No Risk, No Reward Academic and Content Vocab.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| consequence | a result or effect of an earlier event |
| impetus | a reason or driving force behind an action |
| stagnate | to become stagnant; to stop growing or changing |
| evidence | facts, statistics, numerical data, quotations, |
| thesis | is a statement that an author wants to discuss; the main idea or argument of an essay or presentation |
| informative text | writing that presents information or ideas about real people, places, things, or events |
| text structure | the order or pattern a writer uses to organize information |
| apathetic | showing little or no emotion |
| deduce | to conclude by reasoning |
| empathy | the feeling that you understand and share another person’s experiences and emotions |
| induce | to bring about; to cause something to happen |
| sympathy | a feeling of understanding or concern for the condition of another person |
| ominous | threatening; suggesting that something bad will happen |
| myriad | a large indefinite number; multitude |
| detached | unemotional; unconcerned |
| anguish | severe suffering or distress |
| grace | beauty of movement, form, or expression; elegance |
| objective | undistorted by emotion or personal bias |
| summarize | to state the most important ideas, events, and details in a text in your own words |
| paraphrase | to restate an entire passage from a text in your own words |
| compare and contrast | a text structure that explains similarities and differences between two or more things |
| sequential | a text structure in which events or steps are presented in the order in which they have taken place |
| descriptive | a text structure that details a subject’s characteristics |
| cause and effect | a text structure that explains how or why something happened |
| fluency | skillfulness in oral reading and comprehension |
| sneer | to smile meanly |
| prudence | good judgment that helps a person avoid problems |
| console | to comfort |
| bear | to be oppressive, to weigh down |
| simile | a figure of speech that uses the word like or as to compare two seemingly unlike things |
| metaphor | a figure of speech that compares two seemingly unlike things but implies a comparison instead of stating it directly with the word like or as |
| contrary | very opposed in nature, character, or purpose |
| compulsion | an urge to do or say something |
| problem and solution text structure | a text structure that presents a problem or series of problems with suggestions on how to solve them |
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