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Sixth Grade Common Core Vocabulary

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. (law) a defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question






2. Someone who sees an event and reports what happened






3. An account of the author's personal experiences






4. Your basis for belief or disbelief






5. (law) a defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question






6. Reasoning from detailed facts to general principles






7. The questioning of a person (or a conversation in which information is elicited)






8. A detective who follows a trail






9. The thought processes involved in solving a problem






10. The character who works against the protagonist in the story






11. The questioning of a person (or a conversation in which information is elicited)






12. Reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect)






13. The ability to form mental images of things or events






14. The main character - who must overcome obstacles and resolve the conflict






15. An expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up






16. The main character - who must overcome obstacles and resolve the conflict






17. A history of a word






18. Knowledge gained through tradition or anecdote






19. A series of words using the same beginning letters






20. Any diversion intended to distract attention from the main issue






21. An unfortunate person who suffers from some adverse circumstance






22. The attribute of accepting the facts of life and favoring practicality and literal truth






23. (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse






24. A figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity






25. The totality of surrounding conditions






26. The ability to form mental images of things or events






27. What a person leaves behind when he or she dies






28. A short passage added at the end of a literary work






29. Someone who sees an event and reports what happened






30. Something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained






31. Something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained






32. The reasoning involved in drawing a conclusion or making a logical judgment on the basis of circumstantial evidence and prior conclusions rather than on the basis of direct observation






33. The continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past






34. Words that imitate sounds






35. An expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up






36. The reasoning involved in drawing a conclusion or making a logical judgment on the basis of circumstantial evidence and prior conclusions rather than on the basis of direct observation






37. Knowledge gained through tradition or anecdote






38. A short passage added at the end of a literary work






39. The continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past






40. The thought processes involved in solving a problem






41. Someone who investigates






42. An account of the author's personal experiences






43. A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings - thoughts - or attitudes






44. (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse






45. The attribute of accepting the facts of life and favoring practicality and literal truth






46. A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with 'like' or 'as')






47. Your basis for belief or disbelief






48. A series of words using the same beginning letters






49. Regard as untrustworthy






50. A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings - thoughts - or attitudes