Academic Vocabulary (unit 1 review)

What is the synonym for the word Characteristic?

• given details about something

• reasons

• quality; feature

• explain; show how

What does the word demonstrate mean?

• showing or explaining how to do something or how something works

• an interesting or important part or quality of a person or think

• reasons why something happened or why you did something

• a spoken or written statement that gives details about what someone or something is like

What does the word explanation mean?

• an interesting or important part or quality of a person or thing

• showing or explaining how to do something or how something works

• reasons why something happened or why you did something

• a spoken or written statement that gives details about what someone or something is like

What is a description?

• reasons why something happened or why you did something

• showing or explaining how to do something or how something works

• an interesting or important part or quality of a person or thing

• a spoken or written statement that gives details about what someone or something is like

When you give an explanation what are you sharing?

• spoken or written statement

• features

• reasons why something happened

• showing something

The two colors were a perfect _________________.

• record

• persist

• contrast

• respond

Write a good sentence using the word discard.

The art was so _______________I wasn't sure what it was supposed to represent.

Mom was so ________________when her wallet was stolen at the grocery store.

I was so embarrassed I did not want to _________I had made the error.