Academic Vocabulary 9-10.1

conforming exactly or almost exactly to a standard; correct, true

• standardized
• classic
• accurate
• appropriate

indicating an undesireable situation or feeling is very severe, serious, or intense; chronic

• adequate
• allusion
• acute
• obnoxious

having the requisite or enough qualities or resources to meet a task

• accurate
• appropriate
• adequate
• diction

modifies a noun or pronoun - tells us what kind or number of person(s), place(s), or thing(s) the noun or pronoun is

• adjective
• adverb
• article
• descriptor

modifies an active verb or verb phrase by expressing manner, place, time, degree, or number

• noun
• adverb
• adjective
• affix

benefit resulting from some event or action

• appropriate
• adequate
• significant
• advantage

one or more letters occurring as a bound form attached to the beginning, end, or base of a root word and serving to produce a derivative word or an inflectional form

• suffix
• prefix
• inflectional ending
• affix

a form of extended metaphor in which objects, persons, and actions in a narrative are equated with meanings that lie outside the narrative; the underlying meaning may have moral, social, religious, or political significance, and characters are often personifications of abstract ideas such as charity, greed, or envy

• allegory
• analogy
• simile
• personification

the repetition of initial sounds in neighboring words

• simile
• affixes
• alliteration
• metaphor

an implied or indirect reference to a familiar person, place, or event

• allusion
• objective
• context clues
• aloof