ELA EOG Vocab Review

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Context clues: a strategy to determine word meanings from text usage.

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A strategy to determine word meanings from text usage.

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Summarize

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Present main points of a text concisely.

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Central idea

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Main topic or concept of a text.

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Analyze:

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Consider in detail to discover essential features.

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Choose:

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To select from various options. Synonyms: select, pick, determine, identify.

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Define:

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Meaning of a word, phrase, or definition.

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Compare: common characteristics; identifies how things are alike or similar.

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common characteristics; identifies how things are alike or similar.

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Contrast: characteristics that are not alike; identifies things that are different.

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Contrast refers to differences between items.

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Describe:

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Presents a clear picture of a person, place, thing, or idea; uses details or sensory words.

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Explain:

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To clarify by answering the 5 W’s: who, what, when, where, why, or how.