Starr Vocabulary

commonly understood cultural or emotional association that any given word or phrase carries, in addition to its explicit or literal meaning

• Connotation

• Convey

• Concrete Details

• Effect

To communicate to someone directly or indirectly through symbols, words, or actions

• Convey

• Emphasize

• Irony

• Infer

To put special attention or significance on something. To show that something is important.

• Concrete Details

• Irony

• Emphasize

• Connotation

To draw a conclusion based on evidence and reasoning

To use what the text says/includes AND your background knowledge to draw a conclusion about something unknown

• Infer

• Connotation

• Effect

• Emphasize

A contrast between what is being said and what is actually going to happen or current reality. Sometimes done to show humor, anger, or frustration.

• Irony

• Infer

• Emphasize

• Effect

What is the definition of Acknowledge?

• To make a mark on something

• To believe what someone says

• To accept or admit the existence of truth

• To get rid of your dirty laundry

What is the correct definition of endure?

• to think of yourself before others

• To fight with someone

• To buy things when you don't have money for them.

• To go through hard or difficult times and to do it patiently and never give up.

What is the correct use of the word emblem?

• You are very emblemed today.

• I rushed over to work because I was emblem.

• My mother bought me a necklace with the emblem of the science club on it.

• The lake had an emblem of green on it.

What is the definition of fathom?

• to foam at the mouth

• to understand a difficult problem after much thought

• to find somthing

• To talk more than is neccessary

What is the definition of gaudy?

• extravagantly  bright or showy, typically so as to be tastless

• over dramatic

• someone who is a Christian

• very mean and cruel