3rd Grade Language Arts Academic Vocabulary

Question 1

What word is a part of speech that shows action?

Accepted Answer

verb

Question 2

Which word means a group of lines in a poem?

Accepted Answer

stanza

Question 3

Which word means a shortened form of a word such as don't or can't ?

Accepted Answer

contraction

Question 4

Which word means things being in a logical order or one after another?

Accepted Answer

sequence

Question 5

Which term for words that all begin with the same consonant sound such as Lili likes lollipops?

Accepted Answer

alliteration

Question 6

Which word means opposite or nearly opposite, such as nice and mean?

Accepted Answer

antonym

Question 7

Which word means a judgement or belief about something?

Accepted Answer

opinion

Question 8

Which word is the worldwide system of computer networks?

Accepted Answer

Internet

Question 9

Which word means something true and not an opinion?

Accepted Answer

fact

Question 10

Which term means a person, place, or thing showing ownership, such as Pam's cats?

Accepted Answer

possessive noun

Question 11

Which word means the place and time that a story takes place?

Accepted Answer

setting

Question 12

Which figure of speech compares unlike things, such as my brother is a grouchy bear?

Accepted Answer

metaphor

Question 13

What genre often has animals as main characters and teaches a lesson or moral?

Accepted Answer

fable

Question 14

Which word is used for a book or collection of maps?

Accepted Answer

atlas

Question 15

What type of sentence asks a question?

Accepted Answer

interrogative

Question 16

Which word means a type of literature, such as poetry or drama?

Accepted Answer

genre

Question 17

Which word means a book used to find antonyms and synonyms of words but not definitions?

Accepted Answer

thesaurus

Question 18

Which word means to hint or guess?

Accepted Answer

infer

Question 19

Which word means a shortened form of a word?

Accepted Answer

abbreviation

Question 20

Which word means more than one, such as dogs or men?

Accepted Answer

plural

Questions 20