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Grade 6 Defining Words
Which of the following is NOT the definition of the word demolish?
  1. to damage
  2. to tear down because it is dangerous
  3. to fix up
  4. to crush or destroy
Grade 7 Defining Words
An interesting or important part, quality or ability
  1. drastic
  2. feature
  3. consider
  4. infinite
  5. strategy
Grade 5 Defining Words
To                 is to elaborate or expand in detail.
  1. explain
  2. determine
  3. develop
  4. identify
Grade 7 Defining Words
Inference
  1. to give an answer based on imagination
  2. to give a lie
  3. to make a guess based on information given
  4. to give a fact
Grade 2 Defining Words
save someone from danger
  1. instinct
  2. rescue
  3. fast-paced
  4. family
Grade 5 Defining Words
Easily seen or obvious
  1. dusk
  2. evident
  3. ignorance
  4. rural
Grade 7 Defining Words
Conflict
  1. people that get along great
  2. battle or struggle
  3. the enemy
  4. difference of facts
Grade 9 Defining Words
Abhor
  1. to dislike
  2. to like
  3. to clean
  4. to lose
Grade 7 Defining Words
Flashback
  1. to tell of events that will never happen
  2. tell of events that are in the future
  3. tell of events that lead up to the present events
  4. to tell of event that are complete lies
Grade 6 Defining Words CCSS: CCRA.L.4, L.6.4, L.6.4b
To be or think in a hopeful or wishful way is to be:
  1. sad
  2. optimistic
  3. persistent
  4. eager
Grade 5 Defining Words
Sly; sneaky; in a hidden way; so slight as to be difficult to notice.
  1. scurvy
  2. subtle
  3. summit
  4. impudent
Grade 9 Defining Words
conflict
  1. the turning point of the story
  2. the solution to the conflict
  3. the problem the main character faces
Grade 5 Defining Words
A messenger sent to deliver news.
  1. jot
  2. courier
  3. carnage
  4. calabash
Grade 7 Defining Words
Plot
  1. story line
  2. the main characters
  3. the place things happen
  4. in chronological order
Grade 7 Defining Words
To kidnap:
  1. loathe
  2. abduct
  3. tout
  4. turbulent
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