CAASPP Review: Words to Know

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

• renounced

• denounced

• announced

• dispensed

Smashed to bits

• pulverized

• explicit

• focused

• disinergrate

Able to concentrate on one thing

• focused

• develop

• conjecture

• idiom

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

• identity

• a driver's license

• photograph

• discipline record

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

• story

• plot

• flashback

• details

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

• details

• plot

• textual evidence

• thesis

To elaborate or expand in detail

• explain

• develop

• opinion

• exposition

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

• narrative

• plot

• story

• explain

Find similarities

• compare

• contrast

• describe

• implicit

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

• describe

• explain

• narrate

• story