Second semester E. Word Scramble
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| Term | Definition |
| Contact | Touching communication |
| Presentable | IN proper order for the being seen or met by others |
| Barren | Empty bare |
| Correspondingly | In a consistent way |
| Resolute | Determined resolved |
| Conviction | Strong belief certainty |
| Compare And Contrast Characters | Look for similarities and differences among the people in a story |
| Characters Perspective | The way a person understands the world |
| Characters Traits | The personal qualities attitudes and values that make a character unique |
| Round Characters | Are complex showing many different character traits |
| Flat characters | Are one sided showing just a single trait |
| Distinctions | The noting of differences between things |
| Refugees | People who flee from their homes in times of trouble |
| Melancholy | Sad depressed |
| Acute | Sensitive sharp |
| Distinctness | Clarity awareness of detail |
| Ceased | Stopped |
| Derision | Contempt riducle |
| Logical | Reasonable sensible |
| Indicate | To show to hint at |
| Conclude | To decide by reasoning |
| Evidence | Facts that serve as clues or proof |
| Infer | To draw conclusions based on facts |
| Point of view | The perspective from which a story is told |
| First Person | Narrator participates in the action of the story and can tell only what he or she sees knows thinks or feels |
| Third Person | Narrator is not a character in the story but tells events from the outside |
| Refute | Give evidence to prove an argument or statement |
| Obscure | Conceal or hide |
| Introspective | Inward looking thoughtful |
| Renounced | Gave up |
| Simultaneously | At the same time |
| Incredulously | With doubt or disbelief |
| Rational Appeals | Are based facts |
| Emotional Appeals | Are based on feelings |
| Symbol | Is a person place or thing that represents something beyond its literal meaning |
| Discreet | Careful about what one says or does |
| Credibility | Believability |
| Revelation | Something not previously known |
| Authentic | Genuine real |
| Procession | A group moving forward as in a parade |
| Unseemly | Inappropriate |
| Biography | Is a life story written by another person |
| Autobiography | Is a writers account of his or her own life |
| Persuasive Writing | Meant to convince the reader to adopt a particular point of view or take a particular course of action |
| Expository Writing | Presents facts and and ideas or explains a process |
| Narrative writing | Tells the story of real life experiences |
| Reflective Writing | Addresses an experience and includes the writers insights about the events importance |
| Authors Tone | Is the writers attitude toward his or her audience and subject |
| Voice | Is a writers distinctive way of speaking in his or her writing. |
| Organization | Is the way a writer chooses to arrange and present information in a single piece of nonfiction |
| Chronological Organization | Presents details in time order first to last |
| Comparison-and-contrast Organization | Shows the ways in which two or more subjects are similar and different |
| Cause-and-effect Organizations | Shows the relationship among events |
| Problem-solution Organization | Identifies a problem and then proposes a solution |
| Main Idea | Is the central point or message conveyed in a passage or text |
| Pertinent | Relevant having a connection |
| Topic | The subject |
| Focus | Concentrate on one thing |
| Suggest | Show indirectly imply |
| Imply | Hint at suggest |
| Iimplied | Suggested |
| Synonyms | Words that have nearly the same meaning |
| Fugitives | People fleeing from danger |
| Incentive | Something that makes a person act |
| Disheveled | Untidy messy |
| Mutinous | Rebellious |
| Fastidious | Not easy to please very critical of anything crude or course |
| Devices | Techniques or means for working things out |
| Evaded | Avoided |
| Ignorance | Lack of knowledge or awarence |
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