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The Stranger Test this Friday
railroad
airport
seat belt
everywhere
homesick
understand
background
anything
ninety-nine
already
fireplace
ourselves
all right
forever
breakfast
whenever
everything
meanwhile
afternoon
make-believe
landmark
nationwide
postscript
motorcycle
VOCABULARY FOR THE YEAR
1. plot – actions or events of a story
2. setting – time and place of an event in a story
3. resolution – the point in the story when the problem is solved
4. predict – to figure out things before they happen
5. prefix – the part of the word that comes before the root word
6. suffix – the part of the word that comes at the end of the
root word
7. factors – the numbers that are multiplied to give a product
8. product – the answer to a multiplication problem
9. infer – to come to a conclusion based on facts
10. draft – writing all the writer’s ideas on paper
11. prewriting – planning a writing project
12. editing – checking for spelling, grammar, and mechanics errors
13. revising – making changes to improve the draft
14. quotation – the exact words of the speaker
15. homophone – when one of two or more words is pronounced the same but
are different in meaning or spelling
16. mode – the number that occurs most often in a collection of data
17. median – the middle number in a set of numbers arranged in numerical
order
18. range – subtract the smallest and largest numbers in a set
19. data – facts or information from which conclusions can be drawn
20. dividend – a number to be divided
21. tessellation – an arrangement of shapes that covers an area without any
gaps or overlaps
22. denominator – the bottom number of a fraction
23. numerator – the top number of a fraction
24. divisor – the number by which the dividend is divided
25. area - the number of square units needed to cover a region or figure
26. perimeter – the distance around an object
27. quotient – the answer to a division problem
28. remainder – the leftover pieces in a division problem that can not be
divided equally
29. simile – a comparison between unlike nouns using like or as to make the
comparison
30. metaphor – an implied comparison between two different things
