ELA Benchmark Review*Academic Vocabulary

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Influence

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to have an effect on someone or something

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Characterize

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Characterize means to describe someone or something

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Symbolize

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To represent or stand for something

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Point out or show

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Indicate

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Stating a piece of writing in your own words.

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paraphrase

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Briefly retelling the main ideas of a piece of writing in your own words is?

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summarizing

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If the questions includes suggests, I know that this is an

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inference

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Excerpt

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A piece of a larger writing

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primarily

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most or most importantly

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A question that asks for supporting details or something that supports an idea, it is asking for ...

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text evidence