Reading Vocabulary
Terms
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- synonym
- one of two or more words or expressions of the same language that have the same or nearly the same meaning in some or all senses
- affixes
- word parts that are "fixed to" either the beginnings of words (prefixes) or the ending of words (suffixes)
- plot
- the plan or main point of a story
- climax
- the point of highest dramatic tension or a major turning point in the action
- verb
- a word that is usually the grammatical center of a predicate and expresses an act, occurrence, or state of being
- pronoun
- any of a small set of words in a language that are used as substitutes for nouns or noun phrases
- nonfiction
- based on facts
- antonym
- a word of opposite meaning
- adjective
- word that modifies a noun by describing a quality of the thing named, indicating its quantity or extent, or specifying a thing as distinct from something else
- fiction
- something invented by the imagination