Academic Vocabulary Terms

Hesitate

• Willing to do anything

• To be reluctant or pause to do something

• To hurry up

• To stop and ask for directions

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

Supposed

• A confused feeling

• Intensely focused

• Believe to be true

• Necessarily

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2E

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.L.5.6

CCSS.L.6.2B

CCSS.L.6.6

A form of hyperbole that takes a normal situation to an extreme. Someone does something foolish or a senseless act.

• Hyperbole

• Comic Diction

• Absurdity

• none

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

Taut

• Believed to be true

• Intensely focuses

• Stretched tightly

• Clear or obvious

Tags

CCSS.L.1.5D

CCSS.L.2.5B

CCSS.L.3.5C

CCSS.L.K.5D

Rime

• A structure used for supporting vines, which wind around the arbor as they grow.

• A variation on the word rhyme

• To understand or see

• Extremely big

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C

Use the term GLARE in a sentence.

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2E

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.L.5.6

CCSS.L.6.6

Perceiver

• Away from one's homeland

• Foolishness, stupidity, or senselessness

• To understand or see

• A person who has been in the military

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4C

CCSS.RF.3.3A

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

Perforce

• Intensely focused

• Clear or obvious

• A variation on the word rhyme

• Necessarily

Tags

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.L.5.6

CCSS.L.6.2B

CCSS.L.6.6

Use the term Ordinary in a sentence.

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2E

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.L.5.6

CCSS.L.6.6

Entrechats

• Away from one's homeland

• Dance-like jumps in which the performer taps his feet together quickly while in the air

• To understand or see

• A variation on the word rhyme

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E