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Sixth Grade Common Core Vocabulary

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Any diversion intended to distract attention from the main issue






2. An account of the author's personal experiences






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






4. A detective who follows a trail






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






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






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






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






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






10. Your basis for belief or disbelief






11. Your basis for belief or disbelief






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






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






14. An unfortunate person who suffers from some adverse circumstance






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






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






17. The totality of surrounding conditions






18. 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






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






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






21. Words that imitate sounds






22. Someone who investigates






23. A history of a word






24. Regard as untrustworthy






25. Something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained






26. Reasoning from detailed facts to general principles






27. The totality of surrounding conditions






28. Regard as untrustworthy






29. Someone who sees an event and reports what happened






30. The sequence of events in a literary work






31. Someone who investigates






32. Knowledge gained through tradition or anecdote






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






34. Reasoning from detailed facts to general principles






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






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






37. The thought processes involved in solving a problem






38. An unfortunate person who suffers from some adverse circumstance






39. A detective who follows a trail






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






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






42. 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






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






44. An account of the author's personal experiences






45. 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






46. Words that imitate sounds






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






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






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






50. A history of a word