4th grade Academic Vocabulary II

Climax

• convince

• show importance of something

• funny

• the most exciting part of the story

Approaches

• to look up to someone

• a way of doing something

• what the character does

• annoying

Persuade

• to look up to someone

• a way of doing something

• convince

• annoying

Conflict

• the events in the story

• the problem, something that is causing trouble

• what the character does

• when and where the story takes place

Action

• a way of doing something

• how the problem is solved

• the events in the story

• what the character does

Similar

• a problem

• sad

• the same

• how something ends

Purpose

• little bits of information

• a problem

• the reason

• how something ends

Gloomy

• to put in order

• sad

• make something more likely to happen

• same

Details

• how something ends

• the events in the story

• little bits of information

• what the character does

Idiom

• comparing two things without using "like" and "as"

• a word or phrase that says one thing, but means another

• an exaggeration

• match