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ELA Unit 5 Vocab
ELA Flashcards Unit 5 Vocabulary Words
| Term | Definition | Sentence |
|---|---|---|
| Quarrels n. | Arguments/Disagreements | At one point me and my brother quarrelled, over something silly. |
| Gestapo n. | Secret police force of Nazi Germany; known for their brutality. | In 1933, the Gestapo were established as a secret police force. |
| Foreboding n. | Sudden feeling that something bad is going to happen. | She was filled with a sense of foreboding. |
| Apprehension n. | Fearful feeling about what will happen next. | The thought of moving to a new city fills me with apprehension. |
| Intuition n. | Ability to see the truth of something immediately without reasoning. | Intuition was telling him that something was very wrong. |
| Mounting adj. | Increasing gradually; building up. | She anticipated her trip abroad with mounting excitement. |
| Rigid adj. | Stiff, and unbending. | Several colleges in our study have rigid rules about student conduct. |
| Insistent adj. | Demanding that something should happen. | The child was insistent in his whining and eventually his father caved. |
| Deportation n. | The act of expelling someone from a country. | Several of the refugees detained at the border now face deportation. |
| Detention n. | The act of keeping someone in custody. (ex. A political prisoner.) | Because he was late for school, the student was kept in after-school detention. |
| Fugitive n. | A person who has escaped or is in hiding to avoid arrest. | He was a fugitive of the state now. |
| Devoted adj. | Showing strong commitment, loyalty, and dedication over a long period of time. | The actors were devoted to the play. |
| Preserving v. | Protecting something important so it is not lost, damaged, or forgotten. | The fossil was preserved over 100,00 years. |
| Resembled v. | Looked very similar to someone else. | The baby resembled his older siblings. |
| Relic n. | A treasured object kept because it has strong emotional or historical importance. | The tower is a relic of when big houses had to be fortified against invaders |
| Humanity n. | Kindness, compassion, and belief in the goodness of people. | We appealed to his sense of humanity |
| Legacy n. | What a person leaves behind that continues to influence others after their death. | Her artistic legacy lives on through her children. |
| Analyze v. | to look closely at the small parts of a text to see how they work together and affect the whole. | In class, we had to analyze the article. |
| Background Information n. | the (new) information that helps a reader better contextualize and understand a specific text. | The background information set the stage for the story to start. |
| Context n. | encompasses a text, its speakers, its audience, its purposes, and the circumstances that surround the text, including the time period, and major historical, cultural, or literary events may impact the context. | We need to look at the event within the larger context of world history. |
| Latin Suffix: -tion state of being; quality | Word: Abduction n. | He was charged with abduction after it was found he had taken a child. |
| Latin Suffix: -ent act of | Word: Accident n. | The car accident was all over the news. |
| Latin Prefix: co- together | Word: Coding n. | My uncle loves coding and does it as a hobby. |
| Latin Root: -mit- to release; to send | Word: Emit v. | Industries shouldn't emit black smoke due to air pollution |
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