Vocabulary Test Prep

The benefit of brushing your teeth is that you won't get a cavity. What does benefit mean?

• the message or lesson

• to make known to others

• something that helps

• to give information

What does paragraph 3 reveal about how the narrator was treated? What does reveal mean?

• a part of a larger text

• to make known to others

• something that helps

• the message or lesson

The archeologist described the new fossil she found to a group of scientists. What does described mean?

• the message or lesson

• a part of a larger text

• using details to talk about something

  (see, hear, taste, smell, feel)

• something that helps

The teacher evaluated the student's understanding of fractions. What does evaluated mean?

• to decide if something is good/bad or right/wrong

• to make information known

• to show an idea in words using details

• something that is helpful or positive

Able to be believed, convincing

• credible

• relevant

• opinion

• summary

What is the meaning of the underlined word?

• the school clinic

• comfortable

• good health

• great pain

The detective identified the clues in the crime. What does identified mean?

• to make a connection between 2 or more things

• to make an idea easier to understand by giving more information

• to show an idea in words using details

• to figure out what something is or what something means

Have you heard the phrase, "It's raining cats and dogs"? What does the word phrase mean?

• what the whole text is about

• a group of words that express a single idea

• to give information

• the message or lesson

Susie summarized the story she read in class. What does summarized mean?

• to make known to others

• a statement that answers a question

• to tell the most important information from a text you have read

• the text structure of the passage

I made an inference about why the main character went to the desert. What does inference mean?

• coming to a conclusion using both details and background knowledge

• a part of a larger text

• to make known to others

• the message or lessons