L.8.4 Vocabulary Words

Context clues

• refers to elements preceding and following an unknown or ambiguous word, phrase, or reference which can help define or identify it 

• refers to elements succeeding and following an unknown or ambiguous word, phrase, or reference which can help define or identify it 

• The brother of Blues Clues

• refers to the context preceding and following an unknown or ambiguous word, phrase, or reference which can help define or identify it 

reference materials

• What you receive at the Media Center

• Materials where you do project research

• sources that provide information about a topic under investigation.

• References found in certain materials

word relationship

• a name given to a female marriage partner

• related by marriage

• the relationships of words and symbols

• the manner in which words relate to one another

What does impact mean?

What does analyze mean?

phrase

• a group of words that conveys meaning

• a group of phrases that conveys meaning

• the definition of a word or phrase

• to make easier to understand

What is a strategy?

• a careless plan or method for achieving a particular goal

•  a careful plan or method for achieving a particular goal

• a strong effect

• a disease of the skin

Tone

• unfamiliar musical notes

• the sound that a bell makes when striking it

• music bars that are hummed or whistled

• the author's attitude toward the subject

word part

Multiple-Meaning Words and Phrases

• Words and phrases that have double meanings

• Words and phrases one has to guess at.

• Words and phrases that have more than one meaning

• Words and Phrases that multiply