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Sixth Grade Common Core Vocabulary

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Regard as untrustworthy






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






3. Someone who sees an event and reports what happened






4. An account of the author's personal experiences






5. Knowledge gained through tradition or anecdote






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






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






8. 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






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






10. Reasoning from detailed facts to general principles






11. Regard as untrustworthy






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






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






14. A history of a word






15. 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






16. The sequence of events in a literary work






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






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






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






20. Someone who sees an event and reports what happened






21. 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






22. A detective who follows a trail






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






24. A detective who follows a trail






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






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






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






28. Reasoning from detailed facts to general principles






29. Something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained






30. 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






31. Someone who investigates






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






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






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






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






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






37. The totality of surrounding conditions






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






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






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






41. The totality of surrounding conditions






42. A series of words using the same beginning letters






43. Someone who investigates






44. Words that imitate sounds






45. The thought processes involved in solving a problem






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






47. An account of the author's personal experiences






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






49. A history of a word






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