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






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






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






5. The totality of surrounding conditions






6. Something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained






7. A detective who follows a trail






8. 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






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






10. An account of the author's personal experiences






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






12. Someone who sees an event and reports what happened






13. Someone who investigates






14. Knowledge gained through tradition or anecdote






15. Your basis for belief or disbelief






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






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






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






19. The sequence of events in a literary work






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






21. 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






22. 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






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






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






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






26. 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






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






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






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






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






31. Reasoning from detailed facts to general principles






32. A detective who follows a trail






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






34. An account of the author's personal experiences






35. Someone who sees an event and reports what happened






36. The thought processes involved in solving a problem






37. Knowledge gained through tradition or anecdote






38. The thought processes involved in solving a problem






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






40. Regard as untrustworthy






41. Your basis for belief or disbelief






42. The sequence of events in a literary work






43. Something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained






44. Someone who investigates






45. An unfortunate person who suffers from some adverse circumstance






46. An unfortunate person who suffers from some adverse circumstance






47. Words that imitate sounds






48. A series of words using the same beginning letters






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






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