6th Grade Spelling and Vocabulary
Week 4 for Sept. 8-12
according: to cause to agree; to bring into agreement; in agreement with…
“According to the teacher, the we get to go to recess early today.”
persuade: to convince, or make someone believe something
“Did you persuade your father to let you go to Great America?”
device: a thing made for a particular purpose; a word pattern or figure of speech
“Alliteration is a literary device to get the reader’s attention.”
narrator: the person telling the story
“There was a narrator on stage telling the audience what the actors were thinking.”
statement: something said, usually as an assertion
“I agreement with everything you said, except your last statement.”
generalization: to generalize, or ‘be generic’; not specific; to infer from only a few facts
“It’s a generalization that all mice like to eat cheese.”
compare: to examine two or more things for similarities
“If you compare your car with mine, you will see that yours is better.”
contrast: to examine two or more things for differences
“How did camp food contrast with mother’s cooking?”
essay: a short writing on one subject or theme
“The student wrote an essay about her dog.”
transition: changing from one form or style to another
“I liked your essay about your dog, but you need a transition between the paragraph about his friendliness and the tricks he can do.”
algorithm: a particular way of solving a problem
“To divide numbers, you need to use the algorithm of putting the divisor outside of the ‘casita.'”
decisive: to decide easily without hesitation; definite; commanding
“A good military man needs to be decisive.”
“My team has a decisive lead in the league standings.”