Reading Trimester 2 Vocab
N. a person who has committed a crime or is guilty of some miscounduct; an offender
culprit
V. To pay out , spend: to use up
Expend
N. An event resulting in death; an accidental death
Fatality
Adj. Esialy fooled, tricked, or cheated
Gullible
Adj. Not permitted, unlawful, improper
Illicit
V. To plunge or dip into a fliud; to involve deeply
Immerse
Adj. Causing excitement or anger; leadign to unreast, violence, or disorder
Inflammatory
V. To lie, tell a untruth; to mislead on purpose
Prevaricate
V. to crush, put down completly
Quash
N. enjoyment or satisfaction; something that adds a pleasing flavor
Relish
V. To enjoy greatly
Relish
N. wea;th, riches, prosperity; great abundance, plenty
Affluence
V. To shrink back or hide in fear or submissiveness
Cringe
Adj. Cranky, ill-tempered; full of odd whims
Crotchety
Adj. blocked so that nothing can go though
impassable
N. something new, a change; the act of introducing a new method, idea, device, etc
innovation
Adj. good-humored, in high spirts; merry
Jovial
N. the beggining, start (espesially of something violent and destructive); an attack, assault
onset
N. something that divides (such as a wall); the act of dividing something into parts or sections
Partition
V. to divide or subdivide into parts or shares
Partition
Adj. tightly drawn, tense; neat, in good order
Taut
V. to get revenge for, get even for, settle a score; to punish someone or get satisfactio for a wrong or injury
Avenge
V. to give up, surrender; to hand over to another
cede
N. the striking of one object against another; the shock caused by a collision
impact
V. to affect, especially forcefully
Impact
V. to make timid or frighten by threates; to use fear to get someone to do (or not to do) something
Intimidate
V.to free from bomdage or domination; to release
Liberate
Adj. complete; instataneous; without reservation, thoroughgoing
Outright
Adv. Completely, instaneously
Outright
V. to meet in accordance with a plan
Rendezvous
N. a meeting by agreement; a meeting place
Rendezous
V. to stroll;walt in an easy, lesisurely way
saunter
N. A stroll
Saunter
Adj. lower in rank or positiom, secondary
Subordinate
N. One who is in a lower position or under the orders of someone else
Subordinate
V. to put in a lower or secondary position
Subordinate
N. a delicate color or hue; a slight trace of something
Tint
V. to give color to something; to die
tint
Statements that tell the reader what happend and can be proven true or false
Fact
Personal beliefs, attitudes, or judgements that involve emotional language and cannot be proven right or wrong
Opinion
The author's reason for writting: to inform, to entertain, to persuade
Author's purpose
Includes all the parts of a story or article that are not the main body of the text. thsese include the table of contents, index, glossary, headings, subheadings, and graphics
Text Features
A piece of writing that gives the author's own viewpoint about a particular topic
Essay
The author of a drama/play
Playwright
Is the literary text that is meant to be preformed for an audience
Drama
A phrase or expression that usually presents a meaning beyond the literal menning of th words
Idiom
The attitude of the narrator toward the subject, ideas, theme, or charecters
Tone
Words, often in italics and enclised within brackets, desctibing characters and telling actors how to move or speak
Stage Directions
Object and elements of the scenery of a stage play or movie set
props
the story of a person's life written by that peson
Autobiography
The way in which the information within a written text is organized
Text Structures
A brief, entertaning story based on a single interesting or humorous incedent or event
Anecdote
A set of words and instructions to be used by actors
Script
Lines spoken by charecters. Each line is preceded by tha charecter's name
Dialogue
the account of a persons life written by someone other than the subject
Biography
A reference to a charecter, a place, or situation from history, music, art or literature
Allusion
Occurs when the outcome of a situation is the opposite of ehat was expected
Irony
A list at the beggining of a play naming and describing the charecters
Cast of Charecters
prose writing that is based on factual information, real people, places, aand events
Nonfiction