Promises to Keep Vocabulary Practice #2

Something successfully completed

• barrier

• accomplishment

• infer

• contribute

To restate in a concise way.

• main ideas

• defining

• admire

• summarize

A written stories of a person's life

• chronicled

• Jim Crow

• biography

• background

The historical practice of segregation and discrimination against African Americans.

• Jim Crow

• chronicled

• amendments

• opposed

To use what you know and what the text says to figure out something the author doesn't explicitly say

• summarize

• infer

• opinion

• key details

Information in a text that support the main ideas

• key details

• summarize

• opinion

• define

the big idea of an argument or written work; can also be called the central idea

• main idea

• key details

• sumarize

• opinion

not in favor of; against

• main ideas

• opposed

• violate

• commitment

to choose or decide

• favor

• encourage

• accomplish

• elect

separated or placed apart from others

• desegregate

• segregate

• oppose

• chronicles