Unit 4: Week 1 Vocabulary

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  1. limitation
    an act of restricting (as by regulation)
  2. grace
    elegance and beauty of movement or expression
  3. noble
    having high or elevated character
  4. empower
    give or delegate authority to
  5. resist
    express opposition through action or words
  6. endure
    continue to live through hardship or adversity
    The body won’t never endure but something inside all of us be so strong it always be flying.
  7. ponder
    reflect deeply on a subject
    I said to Mr. Leroy, “Sir, some of these things do need to get changed. How long you gonna let me ponder on this afore I gotta tell you?”
  8. commotion
    the act of making a noisy disturbance
    Soon’s he drove the first nail into the wood over her door, Mrs. Holton came out to see what the commotion was.
  9. commence
    begin or get started
    His hands commenced shaking, he busted out in a sweat and looked like his belly was aching him bad.
  10. strapping
    muscular and heavily built
    He was a big strapping boy when I last seen him four years ago and now he be fifteen and must be big as a oak!
  11. historical
    having once existed as distinct from being legendary
    Historical fiction tells about events and people from the past.
  12. science fiction
    genre involving the imagined impact of technology on society
    A science fiction story entertains the reader with a vision of the future.
  13. setting
    facts or circumstances that surround a situation or event
    The setting of a science fiction story differs from the real world. For example, the story might be set in outer space or on Earth in the distant future.
  14. character
    an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction
    The characters in a science fiction story may be robots or humans who have technology that people do not have today.
  15. plot
    the story that is told, as in a novel, play, movie, etc.
    The plot of a science fiction story has a problem that is related to the futuristic setting.
  16. adjective
    the word class that qualifies nouns
    Adjectives are words that modify, or add to and clarify the meaning of, nouns and pronouns. Adjectives describe people, places, or things by telling what kind, how many, or which one. An adjective that appears after a linking verb and describes a noun in the subject is a predicate adjective. Sometimes words that we think of as nouns are used as adjectives.
  17. evaluate
    judge; form a critical opinion of
    To understand characters, readers evaluate details as they read and interpret a text.
  18. contrast
    the opposition or dissimilarity of things that are compared
    The text structure depends on the information provided. Some common structures include comparison and contrast, cause and effect, and chronology.
  19. propel
    cause to move forward with force
  20. compress
    squeeze or push together
  21. companion
    a friend who is frequently with another
  22. progress
    the act of moving forward, as toward a goal
  23. community
    a group of people living in a particular local area
    What freedoms are important to your community? How do people in your community work together to get or to keep those freedoms?
  24. map
    plan, delineate, or arrange in detail
    Writers sometimes map to generate ideas for their stories.
Created on Wed Oct 14 10:12:29 EDT 2020 (updated Fri Oct 16 13:36:40 EDT 2020)

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