4th grade Academic Vocabuary

irritating

• annoying

• not sure

• nervous about something

• feeling embarrassed or guilty of something

climax

• convince

• show importance of something

• funny

• the most exciting part of the story

humor

• match

• what the character does

• funny

• irritating

resolution

• when and where the story takes place

• a way of doing something

• how the problem is solved

• the problem, something that is causing trouble

setting

• when and where the story takes place

• who the story is about, the people in the story that carry out the actions

• a part of a book or passage

• the events in the story

emphasize

• funny

• convince

• show importance of something

• and educated guess

worried

• annoying

• unhappy because something you hoped for didn't happen

• nervous about something

• not sure

support

• match

• the events in the story

• convince

• to look up to someone

admires

• funny

• nervous about something

• to look up to someone

• not sure

theme

• the events in the story

• how the problem is solved

• the message about people, life, and the world we live in that the author wants the reader to understand

• what the character does