Academic Vocabulary

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A word that means the same as another word

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synonym

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Words that have opposite or contrary meanings.

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antonym

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letters attached at the end of a word

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suffix

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letters attached at the beginning of a word

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prefix

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Reach a conclusion based on facts or information

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infer

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a shorter version of a story, in your own words

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summary

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The reason why an author wrote the story (to persuade, inform, entertain, explain, or describe)

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author's purpose

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the theme, or what a text is mainly about

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central idea

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It refers to the text that surrounds a word, it can help you understand the meaning of unknown words

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context clues

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The way an author organizes an informative text. Some examples are descriptive, sequence, cause and effect, compare and contrast, etc.

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text structure