SBAC VOCAB PRACTICE 1

1. Information, measurements, and statistics are correct to a very detailed level.2. Statement or account gives a true or fair judgment of something 3. Can be used to describe the results of someone's actions when they do or copy something correctly or exactly.

• accurate

• observation

• character's action

• text structure -pro/con

• elaboration

What the character does

• accurate
• character's action
• elaboration
• text structure -pro/con
• inference

1. Telling someone what they have just said is wrong or suggesting that it is wrong by saying something different 2. When one statement makes the other appear to be wrong.

• purpose for writing-explanatory

• observation

• contradict

• inference

• text structure -pro/con

Details added to explain or describe the evidence.

• contradict
• purpose for writing-explanatory
• inference
• elaboration
• sensory language/details

A conclusion that you make about something by using information that you already have about it

• elaboration
• accurate
• character's action
• purpose for writing-explanatory
• inference

Something that you have learned by seeing or watching something and thinking about it

• elaboration
• text structure -pro/con
• accurate
• observation
• contradict

To explain or describe an event or situation using relevant information.

• contradict
• sensory language/details
• purpose for writing-explanatory
• observation
• character's action

Writing that uses the five senses: touch, taste, smell, sight, and hearing.

• accurate
• sensory language/details
• contradict
• elaboration
• observation

An essay format that looks at both the positives and the negatives of a given topic.

• text structure -pro/con
• accurate
• purpose for writing-explanatory
• inference
• sensory language/details

A letter or group of letters, for example, 'un-' or '-y,' which is added to either the beginning or the end of a word to form a different word with a different meaning. For example, 'un-' is added to 'kind' to form 'unkind.'

• affix
• author's intent
• resolve
• illustrate (7)
• punctuation