ACADEMIC DECATHLON INAM 5Th GRADES ABC

The feel, appearance, or consistency of a surface or substance: Examples: Squishy, fluffy, slimy...

These are a type of group of letters or segments that hold the most basic meaning of a word and give life to others.

These words are spelled the same but have different meanings and are sometimes pronounced differently.

13.A noun that becomes plural by changing its spelling in other ways than adding an “s” or “es” to the end of the word.

Changes or additions to WHEN the action took place. Examples: Past/Present/Future…

15. This intention is what is meant by a word, text, or action.

17.Words whose meanings are CLOSE ENOUGH to their synonymy group.

A physical phenomenon produced by the motion of electric charge, resulting in attractive and repulsive forces.

Emperors that held a period of authority over large territorial holdings around the Mediterrean Sea and Europe in 27BC.

21.An imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration.

An underground chamber through which domestic or industrial wastewater flows for basic sewage system and purification.

Materials that do not allow electricity to pass through them.

14. The body of words used in a particular language.

12. This is used to show when more than one person or thing indicates ownership or possesses something

19. This type of expository text examines something, and offers a final evaluation of it.

Heat is the flow of this energy contained within a system that is responsible for its temperature.

Groups of letters that represent speech sounds. Examples: monophthongs/ diphthongs/ triphthongs…

This is going beyond the surface details using hints and context clues to state a better understanding of your reading.

5. They connect the subject of the sentence to an adjective, noun, or pronoun that completes the meaning of the verb.

Two or more words that have the same meaning or nearly the same meaning. EXAMPLE: HOUSE/HOME...

These are distinct forms in which substances can exist, including solid, liquid, gas, or plasma.

25. This type of expository text captures a moment in the life of a real person.

22. A meeting of people face to face, especially for consultation.

A form of energy resulting from the existence of charged particles such as electrons or protons.

23. A literature that tells a story, from the point of view of the narrator.

An organism, especially a soil bacterium, fungus, or invertebrate, that decomposes organic material.

An affix of a word part added onto the FRONT of a base word to form a new word. Examples: anti/de/pre/dis/ im /in/mi

An affix of a word part added to the END of a base word to form a new word.

Customs, arts, social institutions and achievements of a particular nation, people, or other social group.

A geographic area where living and nonliving parts such as plants, animals, as well as weather, work together.

Highly rich civilization of Mesoamerican people known by its ancient temples, food, glyphs, and astronomy.

Process by which or electricity is directly transmitted through a substance when there is a difference of temperature.

26. A type of brief dictionary with alphabetical list of terms found in or related to a specific text, or dialect.

18. Hints found that a reader can use to understand the meanings of new words.

4. Parts of speech that connect words, phrases, clauses, or sentences. Examples: As long as/wherever/even if...

A proposed supposition made on the basis of limited evidence as a starting point for further investigation

A cultural group that inhabited much of what is now England in the early Middle Ages, and spoke old English.

20. Short formal piece of writing, dealing with a single subject.

Styled picture or characters of an object representing a word, or sound, scripted in ancient writing.

8. These rules ensure that a sentence makes sense. Example: If the subject is singular, the verb must be plural...

24. This occurs when we look for the consequences one event that caused another event.

The ability to be dissolved, especially in water.

16. Action or capability of understanding something.

To read over and fix mistakes in.

Scandinavian (Denmark, Norway) seafaring warriors, pirates, explorers, and traders, who raided Europe.

Word that has the opposite meaning of another word. Example: [UP/DOWN]

The variety of life in the world or in particular habitat or ecosystem.

Science of arranging events in their order of occurrence of time, by the use of records, timelines, and sequence

A structure of outer surfaces based on squared or triangular sloping sides, and were used as royal tombs or temples.

These words are pronounced the same and have the same spelling, but their meanings are different.

7. Words that describe how an action is carried out. Examples: now/ yesterday/ always/ peacefully/ happily/

The study of living organisms and their vital processes divided into many specialized fields.

The action of domain, settling among, establishing control, and appropriating over someone.

6. Words that describe animals, persons, things, or thoughts. Examples: happy/ hungry/ green/ tall/ big/ little/ short/

Base words that are pronounced the same way but have different spellings and meanings.

10. Part of speech that is used to connect words, phrases, clauses, or sentences, these are also known as glue words

The presence or introduction into the environment of a substance or thing that has harmful or poisonous effects.

The theory and development of computer systems able to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence.

27. A type of dictionary for synonyms and antonyms.

The envelope of gases surrounding the earth or another planet. It makes life possible providing us with air to breath.

A process that involves rearrangement of the molecular or ionic structure of a substance.

Main skills in encountering the planet´s devastation, wreaked by climate change and pollution.

9. These act as the object of the sentence. Examples: he/ him/ it/ me/ them/ us/ you…

TWO vowel sounds combined within a syllable, they involve movement of the tongue from one position to another.

A unique type of word that combines two or more other words in a shortened form, usually with an apostrophe.

The stage of human social and cultural development and organization that is considering most advanced.

A single, unbroken sound of a spoken or written word. Examples: closed/ controlled/ magic e/

Pipelines or conduits, pumping stations, and force mains used for the elimination of wastes.

A dimensionless quantity representing the amount of matter in a particle or object.

The study of past, based on human history and prehistory through the excavation of sites and analysis of materials.