language arts mid term
Terms
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- missile
- Any object, especially a weapon, thrown or intended to be thrown.
- autobiography
- The story of one's life written by himself.
- autograph
- a person's own signature
- version
- something a little different from others of the same type
- paragraph
- one of several distinct subdivisions of a text intended to separate ideas
- spectacular
- having a quality that thrusts itself into attention
- admit
- allow participation in or the right to be part of
- contrast
- the act of distinguishing by comparing differences
- supervise
- to direct or oversee to look after
- scrib/script
- to write
- mem
- memory (recollect, recall, remember)
- contrary
- exact opposition
- association
- the act of consorting with or joining with others
- auditorium
- the area of a theater or concert hall where the audience sits
- biography
- an account of the series of events making up a person's life
- emit
- expel (gases or odors)
- divert
- send on a course or in a direction different from the planned or intended one
- spect
- to look
- script
- something written by hand
- rapport
- relation of mutual understanding or trust and agreement between people
- dictation
- speech intended for reproduction in writing
- memento
- a reminder of past events
- memorial
- a structure erected to commemorate persons or events
- audition
- a test of the suitability of a performer
- perscription
- a drug that is available only with written instructions from a doctor or dentist to a pharmacist
- demote
- assign to a lower position
- subheading
- a heading of a subdivision of a text
- mis/mit
- to send
- port
- harbor
- contradictory
- asserting the opposite of what someone else said
- vocal
- using the voice in speech
- submerge
- fill or cover completely, usually with water
- sub
- under
- voc
- voice, call
- visor
- a brim that projects to the front to shade the eyes
- subdue
- to put down by force or authority
- inaudible
- impossible to hear
- vis
- to see
- vertabrate
- and animal that has a backbone that is part of the endoskeleton
- vocalist
- a person who sings
- versatile
- (used of persons) having many skills
- dictator
- a ruler who is unconstrained by law
- commemorate
- call to remembrance
- spectator
- a close observer
- omit
- prevent from being included or considered or accepted
- subscription
- a payment for consecutive issues of a newspaper or magazine for a given period of time
- decreace
- to make less
- verdict
- (law) the findings of a jury on issues of fact submitted to it for decision
- revise
- to look back and change
- deportation
- the expulsion from a country of an undesirable alien
- sociologist
- a scientist who works in the area of sociology
- subsistence
- the minimum amount to sustain life
- portable
- easily or conveniently transported
- graph
- to record
- mission
- a special assignment that is given to a person or group
- prospect
- to look for; explore
- vers/vert
- to turn
- geography
- study of the earth's surface
- envision
- to imagine
- dict
- say
- de
- down
- contradict
- be resistant to
- submit
- make an application as for a job or funding
- megaphone
- a cone-shaped acoustic device held to the mouth to intensify and direct the human voice
- saxophone
- Part of the woodwind family
- reverse
- turning in the opposite direction
- addictive
- causing or characterized by addiction
- dejected
- downhearted
- contraversial
- debatable
- predict
- To foretell.
- versus
- against, in a legal dispute or sports match
- phon
- sound
- audible
- heard or perceptible by the ear
- stereophonic
- Blending sounds
- avocation
- [n] hobby or calling outside of one's work
- portfolio
- a case for carrying papers or drawings or maps
- subside
- wear off or die down
- dissacociate
- To seperate from
- symphony
- a long and complex sonata for symphony orchestra
- memorandum
- a written proposal or reminder
- phonics
- study of sound, method of teaching people to read and pronounce word by learning their phonetic value
- denominator
- the bottom # of a fraction
- audience
- a gathering of spectators or listeners at a (usually public) performance
- spectacle
- an elaborate and remarkable display on a lavish scale
- remembrance
- the ability to recall past occurrences
- descend
- move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way
- society
- a formal association of people with similar interests
- antisocial
- shunning contact with others
- scribe
- someone employed to make written copies of documents and manuscripts
- respect
- behavior intended to please your parents
- contra
- againt
- audi
- hear
- postscript
- a note appended to a letter after the signature
- soci
- companion
- vocation
- the particular occupation for which you are trained
- visible
- obvious to the eye