STAAR Vocabulary

What is the definition of flashback?

• action that interrupts a story to show an earlier event

• to resist authority and rules

• the use of hints to suggest what will happen later on int the story

• confused or perplexed

What is the definition of defiant?

• done in the order that events occur

• to look up to someone; a feeling of approval

• to resist authority and rules

• to brag, to speak with pride

What is the definition of foreshadowing?

• unusual, not typical or ordinary

• done quickly, fast

• to look up to someone, a feeling of approval

• the use of hints to suggest what will happen later on in the story

What is the definition of bewildered?

• confused, perplexed

• done in the order that events occur

• action that interrupts a story to show an earlier event

• to resist authority and rules

What is the definition of chronological?

• the use of hints to suggest what will happen later on in the story

• done in the order that events occur

• done quickly, fast

• no worries or troubles

What is the definition of admiration?

• real, correct, based on facts

• the struggle or problem within a story

• to rejoice in something, to honor

• to look up to someone, a feeling of approval

What is the definition of boastful?

• narrow-minded, not accepting difference in others

• trustworthy

• to brag, to speak with pride

• needing immediate attention

What is the definition of unique?

• having a great desire or interest in doing something

• unusual, not typical or ordinary

• modest, not bragging

• having an effect on someone

What is the definition of hasty?

• done quickly, fast

• gloomy, serious

• aggressive, unfriendly

• nervous, jittery

What is the definition of carefree?

• having a great desire or interest in doing something

• to feel anger toward someone for what they have done

• no worries or troubles

• great worry or anxiety, causing stress