List 2 8th Grade STAAR Vocabulary

Indicate means to:

• follow stealthily or recur constantly ans spontaneously to

• praise vociferously

• give evidence

• fix firmly and stably

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Significantly means:

• well-meaning

• transparent

• geographical

• noteworthy

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

difference means:

• the activity of managing something

• the act of public worship following prescribed rules

• an inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities

• a variation that deviates from the standard or norm

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

express means to:

• resolve

• ponder

• convey

• induce

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Which of the following statements would most likely be considered a comparison?

• She is always optimistic.

• The big bear bounded away.

• He was as mad as a hornet.

• Newborn kittens are helpless.

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

represent means to:

• serve as s means of expressing something

• remove

• to gain with effort

• be the cause or sources

Tags

CCSS.L.6.2B

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.2B

CCSS.L.8.2C

CCSS.L.9-10.1.C

provide means to:

• supply means of subsistence; earn a living

• suffer from an illness or disease

• suddenly appear or become visible

• annoy continually or chronically

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C

description means:

• tendency

• prayer

• figure

• report

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

message means:

• language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense

• an extended fictional work on prose

• the highest power of a term or variable

• what a communication that is about something is about

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

why might someone read a paraphrase?

• to learn how to operate something

• to get the main idea

• to enjoy the rhythm of the langugage

• to focus on the details

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4