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AIG words
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| confound | confuse or mix someone up |
| misconstrue | to get the wrong idea about something |
| overt | something that is open to view, not secret |
| oblivious | not aware of what is happening |
| canny | smart and clever |
| covert | something not shown openly; secret |
| interminable | something that seems forever as if there is no end in sight |
| longevity | long life |
| benign | harmless |
| infallible | never makes a mistake |
| incorrigible | unable to be corrected |
| loquacious | talks too much |
| verbose | using more words than is necessary |
| benevolent | kind and caring |
| excessive | goes beyond the usual limit |
| notorious | widely and unfavorably known |
| commodity | something of use or value |
| surveyor | measures land |
| hoodwink | trick |
| excursion | a short trip or outing |
| coincidence | occurence of two or more events happening by more chance |
| beseech | beg |
| astute | clever; shrewd |
| alleviate | make easier to endure |
| agile | quick and well coordinated in movement |
| vilidity | loyalty |
| intrepid | fearless |
| hinder | prevent from doing |
| exasperate | annoy extremely |
| epoch | a period of time marked by distinctive features or events |
| corrigible | capable of being reformed or corrected |
| composure | calmness in thinking or acting |
| dearth | a shortage of something |
| consecutive | following one after another without a break |
| devout | devoted to religion |
| bellow | to say loudly and powerfully |
| belle | beautiful popular woman |
| explicate | to make clear or explain clearly |
| extreme | very great to the highest degree |
| fatigue | tired |
| threshold | entry door sill stone or wood that lies under door |
| timid | shy |
| speculate | assumption to make guesses or wonder about something |
| siege | attack |
| renovate | repair restore, to put in good condition |
| impinge | to clash |
| immerge | to dip or plunge |
| noteworthy | deserving notice |
| multitude | a great number |
| mimic | to immitate, copy |
| exhibit | show, display |
| exonerate | relieve or clear of some charge |
| fascinate | charm; captivate |
| furrow | trench made by a plow |
| dowel | wooden pin fitting into a hole |
| inert | no energy |
| falsetto | an unnaturally or artficially high pitched voice |
| viscous | sticky |
| acme | highest point |
| skulk | to keep in hiding |
| fiction | a made up story |
| non-fiction | a true story |
| narrative | a story that is told or written |
| drama | a writing that tells a story through action and speech and is acted on the story |
| poetry | written with rhythm that repeats |
| memoir | a story of a personal experience |
| summary | expressing or covering the main points briefly |
| menu | a list of dishes served for a meal |
| biography | a history of a person's life |
| autobiography | a biography written by the person its about |
| article | a separate part of a document dealing with a set of instuctions for making something, recipe |
| stanza | part of a poem like a paragraph |
| novel | long fiction story usually a chapter book |
| moral | lesson in a fable or story |
| fables | stories with talking animals that have a moral |
| advertisement | a public notice published to get people's attention |
| almanac | a book that contains statistical information over a long period of time |
| repetition | act of repeating something said or done |
| legend | folktales full of people from history |
| fairytale | stories with royalty good versus evil start once upon a time |
| realistic fiction | make-believe story that could really happen |
| historical fiction | make-believe story which could have happened a long time based on historical facts |
| folktales | fiction stories that have been told for generations |
| mood | feeling you get from a piece of writing |
| atlas | book of maps |
| opinion | a person's thoughts, feelings, or beliefs on a subject |
| similar | alike |
| text | words of a selection |
| italics | writing that is thin and slanted |
| bold | writing that is thick and heavy |
| headings | titles within a selection usually found in nonfiction |
| setting | where the story takes place |
| character | animal or person that plays a part in a story |
| plot | action of a story, main part of a story |
| cause | an action that makes something else happen |
| effect | what happens as a result |
| fact | information that can be proven |
| graphic organizer | visual aid to help organize information |
| personification | giving human characteristics to objects |
| metaphor | comparing two unlike things by saying one is the other |
| simile | comparing two things using like or as |
| prefix | a word part added to the beginning of a word and changes the meaning of the word |
| suffix | a word part added to the end of the word and changes the meaning of the word |
| author's purpose | the reason for writing |
| predict | smart guess about what might happen next in the story |
| announced | to make known |
| appear | to come into view |
| attached | to fasten to |
| attract | to be appealing to |
| available | capable of being had |
| natural | produced by nature |
| significant | having special value |
| median | the middle number in a set of ordered data |
| mode | the number that occurs the most |
| range | the difference between the highest and the lowest number |
| parallel lines | lines that do not intersect |
| perpendicular lines | lines that form a right angle when they intersect |
| rotate | to turn |
| reflection | to flip |
| translation | to slide |
| numerator | top number of a fraction |
| denominator | bottom number of a fraction |
| quadrilateral | a four-sided figure |
| trapezoid | a four-sided figure with only one pair of parallel lines |
| congruent | same size same shape |
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