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Sixth Grade Common Core Vocabulary

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. An account of the author's personal experiences






2. Your basis for belief or disbelief






3. Someone who investigates






4. Words that imitate sounds






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






6. Someone who sees an event and reports what happened






7. A detective who follows a trail






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






9. 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






10. A history of a word






11. Someone who investigates






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






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






14. An account of the author's personal experiences






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






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






17. The totality of surrounding conditions






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






19. The totality of surrounding conditions






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






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






22. The thought processes involved in solving a problem






23. 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






24. Something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained






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






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






27. Knowledge gained through tradition or anecdote






28. Someone who sees an event and reports what happened






29. Knowledge gained through tradition or anecdote






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






31. 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






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






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






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






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






36. The thought processes involved in solving a problem






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






38. Your basis for belief or disbelief






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






40. The sequence of events in a literary work






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






42. Regard as untrustworthy






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






44. The sequence of events in a literary work






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






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






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






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






49. A history of a word






50. An unfortunate person who suffers from some adverse circumstance