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VocabLab Q.1
Reading - Grade 7
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Genre | a category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter. |
| Delusion | a false belief or judgment about external reality, held despite incontrovertible evidence to the contrary, occurring especially in mental conditions. |
| Simile | a comparison that uses "like" or "as" |
| Theory | a supposition or a system of ideas intended to explain something, especially one based on general principles independent of the thing to be explained. |
| Inference | a conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning. |
| Unsettling | causing anxiety or uneasiness; disturbing. |
| Scorn | the feeling or belief that someone or something is worthless or despicable; contempt. |
| Eloquent | fluent or persuasive in speaking or writing. |
| Deprived | suffering a severe and damaging lack of basic material and cultural benefits. |
| Tenant | a person who occupies land or property rented from a landlord. |
| Plot | . the main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence. |
| Improvisation | something that is improvised, especially a piece of music, drama, etc., created without preparation. |
| Surplus | an amount of something left over when requirements have been met; an excess of production or supply over demand. |
| Murmured | say something in a low, soft, or indistinct voice. |
| Drama | a play for theater, radio, or television. |
| Personification | the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form. |
| Theme | the subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic. or an idea that recurs in or pervades a work of art or literature. |
| Dialogue | conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book, play, or movie. |
| Revolting | causing intense disgust; disgusting. |
| Compassion | .sympathetic pity and concern for the sufferings or misfortunes of others. |
| Persuasion | the action or fact of persuading someone or of being persuaded to do or believe something. |
| Alliteration | the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. ex. Sally Sold Sea Shells. |
| Adversity | difficulties; misfortune. |
| Moody | (of a person) given to unpredictable changes of mood, especially sudden bouts of gloominess or sullenness. |
| Absorb | take in or soak up (energy or a liquid or other substance) by chemical or physical action. |
| Tone | in writing is the attitude your words employ. |
| Memoir | a historical account or biography written from personal knowledge or special sources. |
| Base word | refer to individual words in the English language. |
| Root word | go back to Latin and Greek languages. |
| Suffix | affixes that come at the end of a word, after the root word. Unlike prefixes, which mostly change a word’s meaning. |
| Prefix | affixes that come at the beginning of a word, before a root word. Sometimes they are added to a word to change its meaning, such as legal and illegal. |
| Affix | are small word particles, usually only a few letters, added to a root word to change its meaning or grammatical properties. |
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