From Mississippi Solo Vocabulary

A memoir is

• a story about someone's life

• a big event about a friend

• an autobiographical account of someone's personal experiences or significant events; written in first person

• the life events of someone important

Affect is a (what part of speech), and it means

• Adjective, and it means to have an influence on or effect a change in something.

• Verb, and it means to have an influence on or effect a change in something.

• Verb, and it means to make something happen.

• Noun, and it means to effect change in something.

To allow something to break up into sharp, thin pieces means

• Capture

• Branch

• Splinter

• Lump

When you insulate something, you

• Let heat or cool air in and out

• Open a window in the house and car to keep air flowing out.

• Prevent the passage of heat through it.

• Allow the passage of heat through it.

A large mass of snow, ice, dirt, or rocks falling quickly down the side of mountain is the definition of an

• Earthquake

• Tsunami

• Avalanche

• Tornado

Read the passage from the excerpt, Mississippi Solo and then determine which word best completes the sentence. "I was more amazed than anything, trying to analyze the voice I had heard or whatever instinct or intuition it was that urges me to park in these trees. It had been something so very definite that I could feel it and yet so _____________ that I could not put my finger on it."

• insulate

• splinter

• ethereal

• specify

An element is

• something that affects the weather

• a part or aspect of something

• to make sure or certain

• to have an influence on something

To make sure or certain means

• certainly

• ensure

• participate

• specify

Which word means to state exactly or in detail what you want or need, and is related to the word forms nonspecific, specification, specific heat?

• ensure

• participate

• specify

• affect

Which word means to be active and involved in something or to share in something, and is related to the word forms participation, participator, non-participant?

• specify

• practice

• pertinent

• participate