ISAT Vocab 2017 7th Grade

The amount of space inside a 3D object

The people who read a writer's books

The writer's personality is felt in the writing

A question-and-answer method of teaching a subject

What does Equivalent mean?

Complex society that has cities, a well-formed government, workers with specialized job skills

The belief in only one God

The location, surrounding or scenery for a story

Describing and discussing theory, problem, or proposal, or of commenting on a written text

A state consisting of several countries or territories

The amount of space inside a 2D object

Putting ideas in sequential order with a beginning, middle, and end

To understand what is being read

A book that finds synonyms and antonyms of words

Grammar, spelling, punctuation

To recap or go over main points

Writing to convince the audience to believe something or take actions

Independent state consisting of a city and its surrounding territory

A shortened version of a word

A word part added to the beginning of a word

A person who dies for their beliefs

A word that means the same as another word

The reason that an author writes something; to entertain, to inform, and to persuade

To quote or give credit to somebody as an example to support an argument

The way in which a writer portrays the characters in a book

A government in which citizens have a right to vote and elect officials

What makes something happen

Anything considered non-religious

A story or tale with a plot and sequence of events

The measure of the likeliness that an event will occur

A quadrilateral with 2 sets of parallel sides

A guess of something yet to come

The feeling or way of thinking while reading a piece of literature

Changing the order in which you multiply numbers doesn't change the product

The major or key person in a story

A book of word meanings

A word that can mean more than one thing

A system of rules by which a government is run

To make pictures in one's mind

Thoughts and details for writing

Using precise nouns, and colorful adjectives and adverbs in one's writing

To draw a conclusion using prior knowledge and new information

Items put into sequential order: first, second, third

to make clear or explain

Explain the Commutative Property of Addition

A triangle with two equal sides

To make meaning from surrounding information

Information or ideas that explain or support a main idea

A problem between character that shapes the action or the plot

A word part added to the end of the word

A number outside parenthesis gets multiplied by every number inside parenthesis

The story line or sequence of events

A collection of things, in which the order does not matter

The total area of all surfaces of a 3D object

Occurs when people have dedicated professions or crafts

Describes the number of units in the first quantity to one unit of the second quantity

To describe or explain something after collecting information

An area ruled by a distant country

The number attached to the variable

Changing the way numbers are grouped does not change the product

A word that means the opposite of another word

A chart or drawing used to help organize ideas for writing

A ruling family that passes leadership from one generation to the next through their offspring

Nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, prepositions, interjections and conjunctions

The most important written idea, supported by other ideas and details

Vocabulary usually listed in the back of a book

Groups of people that occupy different ranks or levels in society

A literature in verse

Says how much of one thing there is compared to another thing

A distinct, recurring, or unifying quality or idea

Changing the way the numbers are grouped does not change the sum

The distance around a circle

A conversation between two or more characters

Idea that all members of a society must obey the law

A polygon with 4 sides

The person telling the story, usually first - or third person

A code of conduct that requires knights to be brave, honest, and loyal

A triangle with 1 angle greater than 90°

General rise in the price of goods

Varied lengths of sentences, different beginnings, and flows nicely when read

All positive and negatives numbers and zero

Things found in writing such as, pictures, charts/tables, titles, headings

The distance a number is from zero

Information that comes directly from a person who experienced an event

Rule by all citizens within a society

Members of a society that have legal rights

A category or type of writing; ie: historical fiction or fantasy

To read orally at a smooth rate

The Belief in more than one God