Academic Vocabulary Week 8+Review

to roughly calculate or solve (round)

• evaluate
• estimate
• solve
• add

a conclusion based on what you know and what the text tells you

• inference
• guess
• predict
• theme

a lesson you are supposed to learn from the story, the theme

• character
• plot
• moral
• setting

words that take the place of a noun (he, she, them, her)

• noun
• verb
• preposition
• pronoun

written in stanzas and lines, can rhyme and have rhythm

• story
• fiction
• fable
• poem

text that contains facts and true information that can be proven

• nonfiction
• fiction
• poem
• drama

words that are spelled differently, have different meanings but are pronounced the same

• synonyms
• antonyms
• homophones
• homographs

the main points of a story

• plot
• setting
• theme
• summary

the exact meaning of a word

• definition
• dictionary
• thesaurus
• point of view

lines that meet at 90 degrees/a right angle

• intersecting
• pararall
• perpendicular
• straight angle