STAAR Vocabulary Quiz 1

Relating to performance or study of drama.

• Dramatic

• Illuminate

• Reluctant

• Conflict

To shine light on something; to make easier to understand.

• Conflict

• Resolution

• Dialogue

• Illuminate

Unwilling or hesitant.

• Reluctant

• Dialogue

• Excerpt

• Playwright

The main problem in a story; struggle.

• Playwright

• Illuminate

• Conflict

• Accelerate

Conversation between people in text.

• Illuminate

• Dialogue

• Playwright

• Accelerate

Conversation between people in text.

• Dialogue

• Resolution

• Envy

• Reluctant

A short piece of writing taken from a longer text.

• Dramatic

• Illuminate

• Conflict

• Excerpt

To be jealous of.

• Resolution

• Illuminate

• Envy

• Accelerate

The author of a script or play.

• Dramatic

• Illuminate

• Envy

• Playwright

To begin to move more quickly.

• Dramatic

• Conflict

• Accelerate:

• Reluctant