MCAS Vocab

What does "Justify" mean?

• To show or prove to be right or reasonable

• To make a choice

• To summarize without going into details

• To list chronologically in order

What does "Cite" mean?

• To eliminate answers

• To judge

• To quote as an example

• To see

What does "Summarize" mean?

• to provide evidence

• to pull together the main point

• to say or make known in words

• to list chronologically in order

inference means:

• Scheme

• Bargaining

• Example

• Reasoning

Contrast means:

• a person's financial situation

• the opposition of things that are compared

• gases ejected from an engine as waste products

• degree of figurative distance or separation

Words, events, or circumstances that help determine meaning.

• Climax

• context

• connotation

• Imagery

to look at something carefully by attention to its parts

• Climax

• Summarize

• Analyze

• a claim

A writer's or speaker's choice of words

• Diction

• Tone

• Plot

• Denotation

Consciously, he receives a meaning from the ________ of the words; subconsciously, he receives a suggestion from their connotation.

• calcification

• accusation

• rotation

• denotation

graph means to:

• chart

• pioneer

• scrutinize

• tense