Academic Vocabulary week 7

a place where information comes from

• source
• support
• features
• fable

to hold up, or give assistance to

• source
• support
• area
• fable

a characteristic or quality of something

• source
• features
• perimeter
• hyperbole

the space within a shape, length x width

• parallel
• quadrilateral
• area
• perimeter

the distance around a shape, add all the sides

• perimeter
• area
• quadrilateral
• features

lines that will never meet, even if extended out forever

• quadrilateral
• intersecting
• parallel
• area

any closed figure with exactly 4 straight sides

• polygon
• quadrilateral
• square
• rectangle

a story that teaches a lesson, usually with talking animals

• fable
• poem
• realistic fiction
• alliteration

a type of figurative language for an over exaggeration

• alliteration
• simile
• idiom
• hyperbole

a type of figurative language in which the beginning consonant sound is repeated

• alliteration
• hyperbole
• simile
• metaphor