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Sixth Grade Common Core Vocabulary

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Your basis for belief or disbelief






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






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






4. Something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained






5. Reasoning from detailed facts to general principles






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






7. Words that imitate sounds






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






9. Someone who investigates






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






11. Something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained






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






13. 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






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






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






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






17. A series of words using the same beginning letters






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






19. A series of words using the same beginning letters






20. An unfortunate person who suffers from some adverse circumstance






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






22. An account of the author's personal experiences






23. A detective who follows a trail






24. Your basis for belief or disbelief






25. Knowledge gained through tradition or anecdote






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






27. The thought processes involved in solving a problem






28. Someone who sees an event and reports what happened






29. A history of a word






30. Knowledge gained through tradition or anecdote






31. The totality of surrounding conditions






32. A history of a word






33. The totality of surrounding conditions






34. The sequence of events in a literary work






35. An unfortunate person who suffers from some adverse circumstance






36. A detective who follows a trail






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






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






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






40. 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






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






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






43. Words that imitate sounds






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






45. Someone who investigates






46. The thought processes involved in solving a problem






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






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






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






50. Someone who sees an event and reports what happened