USMS Reading Vocabulary

_______________of or relating to education and scholarship

• academic

• ad hominem

• antagonist

• authority

_________________an additional element placed at the beginning or end of a root, or word, or in the body or a word, to modify its meaning

• affix

• suffix

• stanza

• tone

_________________open to more than one interpretation; having a double meaning

• analyze

• antagonist

• authority

• ambiguous

____________________break into pieces and explain or clarify each part

• authority

• analyze

• affix

• antagonist

________________________a character against someone or something

• diary

• coinflict

• character

• antagonist

_______________________an account of a person's life written by that person

• connections

• dialogue

• autobiography

• Biography

______________________something happens and then something else happens as a result

• central argument

• character

• cause and effect

• point of view

_____________ the main point of a book or an essay

• climax

• convention

• dictionary

• central argument

________________ a person in a story, novel, play or movie

• theme

• character

• person

• main person

____________ make your answer clear, explain your answer.

• clarify

• retell

• convention

• conflict