Academic Vocabulary Quiz 13

Define Research

• To search again

• The systematic study of materials and sources in order to establish facts and reach new conclusions.

• a mission and fort in San Antonio, Texas, where Mexican forces massacred rebellious Texans in 1836

• to restate in other words

What is an abolitionist?

• the 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.

• the process of reasoning

• A person who wanted to end slavery in the United States

• A fighter in the Alamo

Define implicit

• understood though not put clearly into words

• the arrangement or framework of a sentence, paragraph, or entire work

• explicitly or clearly stated

• the transportation of people to a new settlement

What is emancipation?

• closely connected or appropriate to the matter at hand

• a name for a steam locomotive

• the freeing of slaves

• the transportation of people to a new settlement

Define Comparison

• a statement of the similarities among two or more people, events, ideas, etc.

• differences

• to restate in other words

• A person who wanted to end slavery in the United States

What is a tactic?

• a breath mint

• Federal land set aside for Native Americans

• a word or phrase that links different ideas

• An action or strategy carefully planned to achieve a specific end

Define Informative

• a type of writing with characters that tell a story

• A type of writing in which the author makes a strong claim

• use of language to communicate information or report facts

• metaphor

What does it mean to lobby?

• to try to persuade officials to support or reject a cause

• waiting room

• the arrangement or framework of a sentence, paragraph, or entire work

• To dance slowly

What is a biography?

• a word or phrase that links different ideas

• the arrangement or framework of a sentence, paragraph, or entire work

• story of a person's life written by another person

• a story that is fake or untrue

Define advocate

• Fredick Douglass

• a mission and fort in San Antonio, Texas, where Mexican forces massacred rebellious Texans in 1836

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• to speak in favor of