Unit 1: Week 4 Vocabulary

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  1. insight
    clear or deep perception of a situation
  2. wander
    move about aimlessly or without any destination
  3. passage
    a way through which someone or something may go
  4. adventure
    a wild and exciting undertaking
  5. curious
    eager to investigate and learn or learn more
  6. peer
    look searchingly
    I’m smoothing out this map,
    rolling it into a tube,
    peering through one end,
    wishing it were a telescope,
    wishing I could see past my street,
    wishing I could see
    the whole world
    spread beneath my feet.
  7. traverse
    journey across or pass over
    They traversed their dreams, set their course
    Voyaging over oceans and seas.
  8. girth
    the distance around something, especially a person's body
    These lines that slide from pole to pole
    Wrapping around the watery girth
    Coordinate all of us on this globe
    Our home, our ship, our planet earth.
  9. intersect
    meet or cross at a point; overlap
    Maps are more
    than tiny lines
    intersecting
  10. poetry
    literature in metrical form
    The words in poetry are arranged into lines and express ideas or feelings.
  11. rhythm
    alternation of stressed and unstressed elements in speech
    Rhythm, or a pattern of sounds in language
  12. rhyme
    correspondence in the final sounds of two or more lines
    Rhyme, the repetition of sounds at the ends of words
    Rhyme scheme, the repetition of sounds at the ends of lines
  13. sound effect
    an effect that imitates a sound called for in the script of a play
    Sound effects, including repeated letter sounds and words that imitate sounds
  14. figurative
    not literal
    Figurative language, or language that expresses unusual, unexpected meanings
  15. common noun
    a noun that denotes any or all members of a class
    A common noun names a general person, place, thing, or idea. It is usually not capitalized.
  16. proper noun
    a word that denotes a particular person, place, or thing
    A proper noun names a specific person, place, or organization. It usually begins with a capital letter.
  17. collective noun
    a noun that is singular in form but refers to a group of people or things
    A collective noun names a group of people, places, or things.
  18. collective
    done by or characteristic of individuals acting together
    A collective noun names a group of people, places, or things.
  19. idiom
    expression whose meaning cannot be inferred from its words
    Idioms are phrases or expressions whose meaning cannot be understood from the meanings of the individual words.
  20. suffix
    a linguistic element that is added at the end of the word
    A suffix is a word part that can be added to the end of a base word. A suffix changes a word’s part of speech.
  21. frequency
    the number of occurrences within a given time period
    High-frequency words are words that you will see in texts over and over again.
  22. adjective
    the word class that qualifies nouns
    An adjective modifies, or describes, a noun or pronoun. Most adjectives answer the questions What kind?, How many?, or Which one?
  23. adverb
    a word that modifies something other than a noun
    An adverb tells how, when, or where something happens. It can describe a verb, an adjective, or another adverb. Adverbs add detail and description.
  24. conjunctive
    serving or tending to connect
    A conjunctive adverb shows a relationship between ideas within a sentence. It can introduce an independent clause, connect two independent clauses, or link sentences with similar ideas.
  25. pronoun
    a function word that is used in place of a noun
    Indefinite pronouns do not always refer to a specific person or thing.
Created on Tue Oct 13 12:41:47 EDT 2020 (updated Wed Oct 14 14:41:02 EDT 2020)

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