Academic Vocabulary 2

If the reader feels worried, anxious, or excited aboutwhat will happen next in a story.

A mathematical quantity which can represent differentvalues, usually shown as a letter. 

What is the name of the type of lines that intersect to form a right angle?   

In China, the government controls everything in a country, like factories, farms and business.

To treat a person or a group of people in a cruel or unfair way. 

What is this called when people in a country can vote to elect a leader?

The angular distance measured in degrees north or south from the equator.

The general weather of a certain region, including temperature,rainfall, and wind.

The action or process of carefully watching someoneor something.

If light, heat, or other rays bounce off asurface and then are sent back from thesurface.

Exactly the same amount or value.  Equal as in value.

The state or quality of being different or varied.

In 1787 leaders wrote a set of principles that told how the new nation would be governed.

Something that is happening right now.

This happens in a story when an object, a person, or a situation has more than one meaning.

The feeling that a story brings out inthe reader; happy, sad, peaceful, angry.

Something that will happen tomorrow.

A diagram showing a system of connections bya number of lines, bars, dots, etc.

To examine in order to note the similarities.

What is the name of lines that NEVER meet?