Academic Vocabulary
emphasis: test-taking
Analyze – examine, look closely
Argue – give your opinion
Arrange – put in order
Characterize – describe
Cite – quote
Classify – group according to characteristics
Combine – join together
Conclude – bring to a close
Consist – made up of
Context – background info or language to help you understand
Define – name or identify
Derive – draw from, figure out
Dispute – disagree
Edit – review, revise
Evaluate – appraise, calculate
Examine – look at carefully
Focus – main idea
Identify – recognize
Illustrate – make clear, explain, show with pictures
Indicate – show
Interpret – understand, decode
Inquire – question
Method – way of solving
Obtain – to get
Organize – arrange neatly
Persuade – convince or influence
Predict – what will happen in the future
Previous – before
Process – series of steps
Recall – remember
Relevant – important
Scan – read over quickly for main idea
Select – choose
Similar – alike
Source – starting place
Specific – exact
Speculate – form a tentative conclusion
Summary – sum up the main ideas
Utilize – take full advantage
Vary – differ
English Language Arts
Word Wall Academic Vocabulary
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Adequate
Accuracy
Analogy
Appropriate
Autobiography
Biography
Clarify
Characterization
Citation
Climax
Conflict
Coherence
Denouement
Dialogue
Dialect
Draft
Expository
Fable
Fact
Fiction
Figurative Language
Foreshadow
Gesture
Idiom
Imagery
Inference
Irony
Logic
Metaphor
Moral
Myth
Narrative
Narrator
Nonfiction
Opinion
Plot
Point of view
Position
Proposal
Pronoun
Purpose
Relationship
Research
Revise
Rising Action
Rhythm
Repetition
Resolution
Rhyme
Setting
Selection
Sequence
Simile
Symbolism
Tall Tale
Text
Theme
Tone
Topic
Trait
History Word Wall Words
SIXTH GRADE VOCABULARY
1. Authority
2. Establish
3. Labor
4. Period
5. Participate
6. Purchase
7. Site
8. Philosophy
9. Technology
10. Code
11. Conflict
12. Expand
13. Welfare
14. Domestic
15. Conflict
16. Diverse
17. Precede
18. Prohibit
19. Commodity
20. Symbol
SEVENTH GRADE VOCABULARY
1. Function
2. Acquire
3. Administrate
4. Complex
5. Previous
6. Tradition
7. Consent
8. Contribute
9. Dominate
10. Exclude
11. Justify
12. Locate
13. Fundamental
14. Incentive
15. Motive
16. Neutral
17. Guarantee
18. Predominant
19. Collapse
20. Convince
EIGHTH GRADE VOCABULARY
1. Economy
2. Legislate
3. Policy
4. Document
5. Immigrate
6. Debate
7. Internal
8. Amend
9. Clause
10. Discriminate
11. Federal
12. Ideology
13. Currency
14. Exploit
15. Infrastructure
16. Radical
17. Military
18. Revolution
19. Unify
20. Assemble
6th grade Science
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7th grade Science
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8th grade Science
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