EOG vocabulary review 1

emphasize

• bring attention-draw attention to

• ignore completely

• reduce significance

• make less important

significant

• important and deserving of attention

• trivial and unimportant

• difficult to understand

• not worth considering

relationship

• a bond between people

• the connection between individuals, events, and ideas

• a type of social gathering

• a method of communication

reveal

• show

• hide

• conceal

• obscure

contribute

• help/strengthen/give

• assist

• donate

• strengthen

imagery

• mental images created from text

• visual representations of data

• auditory descriptions in literature

• physical objects in a scene

claim

• what the author wants you to understand or believe

• a statement that can be proven true or false

• an opinion that is not supported by evidence

• the main idea of a text

narrator

• person telling the story

• a character in the story

• the main theme of the story

• the setting of the story

symbolize

• represent/ stand for

• indicate/ show

• ignore/ neglect

• confuse/ mix up

contradicts

• the same, agrees with

• the opposite, goes against

• supports, affirms

• compliments, enhances