RI 8.5 Vocabulary Quiz

Key Concept

• A concept that unlocks the meaning of the text

• To study something very closely

• is one judged to be particularly important in a certain context.

• A very special type of key to gain entrance to the knowledge of an idea or phrase.

Refine

• An expression of feeling good or pleasant.

• To give the exact meaning of a word or phrase.

• To make small things bigger.

• to improve by making small changes, in particular make more subtle and accurate.

Define

• To improve or make something better.

• A statement of the exact meaning of a word.

• To give a vague answer to a question.

• To realize that one is not doing well.

Text

• a book or other written or printed work, regarded in terms of its content rather than its physical form.

• An message sent by a cell phone or other electronic device.

• Messages that are sent over the airwaves.

• Books or other materials banned in school libraries.

Style

• A certain manner that one's hair is cut, trimmed, or fashioned to resemble one's contemporaries.

• Fashions that are worn in business or leisure.

• An instrument for writing on an electronic device.

• a particular, distinctive, or characteristic mode of action or

  manner of acting.

To Compare

• To examine (two or more objects, ideas, people, etc.) in order to note differences or distinctiveness.

• To urge someone to do something wrong, out of character, or illegal.

• to examine (two or more objects, ideas, people, etc.) in order to note similarities and differences:

• To trap or snare a young animal with a rope, wire, or string.

Analyze

• To bring, build or mix together to create out of more than one substance.

• to examine critically, so as to bring out the essential elements or give the essence of.

• To challenge the idea or message in a text.

• To get very hostile or angry at someone.

Details

• 1. an individual or minute part; an item or particular.

• To remove or amputate an unwanted appendage of an animal.

• A story meant to entertain or to give an uplifting message.

• A negative parable with no plot line.