ISAT Vocab 2017 7th Grade

The location, surrounding or scenery for a story

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

The Belief in more than one God

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

Independent state consisting of a city and its surrounding territory

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

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

Explain the Commutative Property of Addition

A word part added to the end of the word

A quadrilateral with 2 sets of parallel sides

The amount of space inside a 2D object

To recap or go over main points

An area ruled by a distant country

Thoughts and details for writing

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

The number attached to the variable

A word that means the same as another word

A triangle with two equal sides

A word part added to the beginning of a word

Information or ideas that explain or support a main idea

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

A book of word meanings

Writing to convince the audience to believe something or take actions

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

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

A polygon with 4 sides

All positive and negatives numbers and zero

Information that comes directly from a person who experienced an event

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

The major or key person in a story

to make clear or explain

Vocabulary usually listed in the back of a book

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

Changing the way numbers are grouped does not change the product

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

To draw a conclusion using prior knowledge and new information

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

A word that means the opposite of another word

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

The distance a number is from zero

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

The belief in only one God

Items put into sequential order: first, second, third

A word that can mean more than one thing

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

What makes something happen

To make meaning from surrounding information

A problem between character that shapes the action or the plot

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

The measure of the likeliness that an event will occur

A triangle with 1 angle greater than 90°

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

To make pictures in one's mind

What does Equivalent mean?

The people who read a writer's books

The total area of all surfaces of a 3D object

The story line or sequence of events

A chart or drawing used to help organize ideas for writing

The distance around a circle

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

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

A state consisting of several countries or territories

A story or tale with a plot and sequence of events

A conversation between two or more characters

A literature in verse

A shortened version of a word

Grammar, spelling, punctuation

To understand what is being read

The writer's personality is felt in the writing

A system of rules by which a government is run

Idea that all members of a society must obey the law

A guess of something yet to come

General rise in the price of goods

Occurs when people have dedicated professions or crafts

A number outside parenthesis gets multiplied by every number inside parenthesis

To describe or explain something after collecting information

A person who dies for their beliefs

A distinct, recurring, or unifying quality or idea

Anything considered non-religious

A book that finds synonyms and antonyms of words

To read orally at a smooth rate

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

The amount of space inside a 3D object

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

Groups of people that occupy different ranks or levels in society

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

Rule by all citizens within a society

A question-and-answer method of teaching a subject

Members of a society that have legal rights