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Sixth Grade Common Core Vocabulary

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The ability to form mental images of things or events






2. An unfortunate person who suffers from some adverse circumstance






3. The totality of surrounding conditions






4. Your basis for belief or disbelief






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






6. Someone who sees an event and reports what happened






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






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






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






10. Your basis for belief or disbelief






11. 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






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






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






14. An account of the author's personal experiences






15. The sequence of events in a literary work






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






17. Knowledge gained through tradition or anecdote






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






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






20. Words that imitate sounds






21. An unfortunate person who suffers from some adverse circumstance






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






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






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






25. Something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained






26. A history of a word






27. Regard as untrustworthy






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






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






30. Someone who sees an event and reports what happened






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






32. Reasoning from detailed facts to general principles






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






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






35. Knowledge gained through tradition or anecdote






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






37. The thought processes involved in solving a problem






38. 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






39. 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






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






41. A detective who follows a trail






42. Words that imitate sounds






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






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






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






46. The thought processes involved in solving a problem






47. The totality of surrounding conditions






48. Someone who investigates






49. The sequence of events in a literary work






50. A series of words using the same beginning letters