CAASPP Review: Words to Know

To give up; to abandon; to cast off something; to disown; to repudiate

• renounced

• denounced

• announced

• dispensed

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E

Smashed to bits

• pulverized

• explicit

• focused

• disinergrate

Tags

CCSS.L.1.5D

CCSS.L.2.5B

CCSS.L.3.5C

CCSS.L.K.5D

Able to concentrate on one thing

• focused

• develop

• conjecture

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

The individual characteristics by which a thing or person is recognized or known

• identity

• a driver's license

• photograph

• discipline record

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

An account of imaginary or real people and events told for entertainment

• story

• plot

• flashback

• details

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

pieces of information that support or tell more about the main idea

• details

• plot

• textual evidence

• thesis

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RL.7.1

To elaborate or expand in detail

• explain

• develop

• opinion

• exposition

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

The telling of a story or an account of an event or series of events.

• narrative

• plot

• story

• explain

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

Find similarities

• compare

• contrast

• describe

• implicit

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Give an account in words of (something or someone), including all the relevant characteristics, qualities, or events.

• describe

• explain

• narrate

• story

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2