MCAS Vocab

What does "Justify" mean?

• To show or prove to be right or reasonable

• To make a choice

• To summarize without going into details

• To list chronologically in order

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

What does "Cite" mean?

• To eliminate answers

• To judge

• To quote as an example

• To see

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

What does "Summarize" mean?

• to provide evidence

• to pull together the main point

• to say or make known in words

• to list chronologically in order

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

inference means:

• Scheme

• Bargaining

• Example

• Reasoning

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Contrast means:

• a person's financial situation

• the opposition of things that are compared

• gases ejected from an engine as waste products

• degree of figurative distance or separation

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Words, events, or circumstances that help determine meaning.

• Climax

• context

• connotation

• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

to look at something carefully by attention to its parts

• Climax

• Summarize

• Analyze

• a claim

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

A writer's or speaker's choice of words

• Diction

• Tone

• Plot

• Denotation

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

Consciously, he receives a meaning from the ________ of the words; subconsciously, he receives a suggestion from their connotation.

• calcification

• accusation

• rotation

• denotation

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

graph means to:

• chart

• pioneer

• scrutinize

• tense

Tags

CCSS.L.4.4B

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.4B

CCSS.L.7.4B

CCSS.L.8.4B