7th grade 2nd semester Vocabulary

known for being bad

• convey

• infamy

• embellish

• intentional

break a law or rule

• conserve

• remote

• cope

• infringe

make more interesting by adding extra details that are not true

• embellish

• convey

• conserve

• infringe

distant

• convey

• intentional

• cope

• remote

communicate

• conserve

• convey

• embellish

• infamy

protect from loss

• conserve

• remote

• cope

• intentional

done on purpose

• remote

• infamy

• conserve

• intentional

deal effectively with something difficult

• cope

• infringe

• convey

• embellish

Author's Purpose

• the reason for writing a text

• the theme of the story

• the claim

• using context clues

Claim is ALWAYS...

• a fact

• an opinion

• a question

• a topic sentence