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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 totality of surrounding conditions






3. Someone who investigates






4. A series of words using the same beginning letters






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






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






7. An account of the author's personal experiences






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






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






10. 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






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






12. Someone who sees an event and reports what happened






13. Words that imitate sounds






14. The sequence of events in a literary work






15. The thought processes involved in solving a problem






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






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






18. Something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained






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






20. A series of words using the same beginning letters






21. Your basis for belief or disbelief






22. 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






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






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






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






26. Someone who investigates






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






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






29. Knowledge gained through tradition or anecdote






30. Someone who sees an event and reports what happened






31. A history of a word






32. Knowledge gained through tradition or anecdote






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






34. Reasoning from detailed facts to general principles






35. A history of a word






36. Something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained






37. The thought processes involved in solving a problem






38. 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






39. Words that imitate sounds






40. Regard as untrustworthy






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






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






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






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






45. An account of the author's personal experiences






46. The totality of surrounding conditions






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






48. Regard as untrustworthy






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






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