4th Grade Vocabulary Power Point

8/14/2019 4th Grade Vocabulary Power Point

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- a word opposite in meaning to another

ANTONYM

Theantonymof hot is cold.


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a related or continuous series; afollowing of one thing after another

SEQUENCE

The numbers were arranged insequencefromsmallest to largest.

1, 4, 8, 13, 19,26,34


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things that happen or occur

EVENTS

There were many importanteventsleading upto the Civil War.


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a feature that helps to identify, tellapart, or describe recognizably

CHARACTERISTIC

Onecharacteristicof a rabbit is its twitchynose.


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noting similarities and differences afterexamining something

COMPARISON

After making acomparisonof the two poems,Shannon could see that one poem describedrain better than the other one.


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an indirect comparison used to suggestsimilarities (does NOT use like or as)

METAPHOR

The author used themetaphor, The ship plowedthe seas, to suggest how the ship went throughthe water like a farmers plow goes through dirt.


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the chance that something will occur(usually expressed as a ratio (1:4), apercentage (24%), or a fraction (1/4)

PROBABILITY

Theprobabilityof pulling 1redmarble out of abag of 1redand 3bluemarbles is 1 out of 4 (1:4or or 25%).


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a word having the same meaning asanother

SYNONYM

In England, a mobile is asynonymfor a cellphone.


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having the power to prove something iscredible (worthy of belief)

PERSUASIVE

Her well-written book report was apersuasiveway of getting me interested in reading thebook.


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to find a characteristic or similarity in areading selection

IDENTIFY

A hero in a book is easy toidentifybecause heusually does good deeds.


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a straight line, usually with arrow points oneither end, divided into equally spacednumbered parts

NUMBER LINE

She learned to add with anumber linebycounting up for each number she added.


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not real; made-up; make-believe

FICTIONAL

The babysitter told the child afictionalstoryabout a baby dragon and a wizard.


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highlighting the differences rather than thesimilarities

CONTRAST

She was asked tocontrastthe different heroesin the story.


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the boundary (edges) of a figure; themeasure of the distance around a figure orspace

PERIMETER

Theperimeterof the small garden was 12 feetaround.


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a conclusion that can be drawn fromavailable evidence

INFERENCE

He made aninferencethat the dog would biteafter he heard it growl, bark, and show itsteeth.


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someone who tells or recites thehappenings of a story

NARRATOR

The play was in French so the theater hired anEnglish-speakingnarratorto tell the audiencewhat was happening.


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having an intermediate value between twoextremes

AVERAGE/MEAN

Theaverageof the four grades, 95, 88, 83, and74, was 85 because I added the four scores anddivided the total by four.

95 + 88 + 83 + 74 = 340

340 4 = 85


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the excess (left over) money earned afterdeducting (subtracting) the cost of providingor manufacturing goods

PROFIT

After spending $40 on supplies, Tammy sold allof her hand-made bracelets for $140 and madeaprofitof $100.


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a connection between two things

RELATIONSHIP

The two friends cared a lot for each other andhad a greatrelationship.


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one part of a hundred

PERCENT

Half of the class, or fiftypercent, usuallyremembers to bring a pencil to class.

50%


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a proposal that is assumed in order toprove or disprove it through scientificinvestigation

HYPOTHESIS

Edsexperiments proved hishypothesisthatplants cannot live without water

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efficiently or successfully

EFFECTIVELY

Dr. Seusseffectivelyused rhyming words in hisbooks.


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an affix (attachment) placed before a baseword

PREFIX

The words unknown and unnamed have thesameprefix.

Our new baby is still unnamed.


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a final summing up; a reasonable end orconclusion

CONCLUSION

Her scientificconclusionwas that plants needwater to live because the watered ones lived andthe water-starved plants died.


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referring to things, events, parts, orcharacteristics in an informative way

DESCRIPTIVE

Charles useddescriptivewords to tell how thecharacters looked and sounded.

Hint:

Descriptivewords most

often

involve

using the

five senses.


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a place or attitude from which something isseen

VIEWPOINT

After reading about the awful accident from thedriversviewpoint, you could understand why hewas always so upset.


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the line or distance around a circle

CIRCUMFERENCE

To win the cake at the cakewalk, the studentshad to walk around thecircumferenceof the

circle drawn on the playground.


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a prime number is a whole number that isgreater than 1, and has exactly 2 factors:itself and 1

PRIME

Cierra knows the numbers 3, 5, 7, and 11 areexamples ofprimenumbers.

3, 5, 7, 11


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the difference between the greatest andthe least numbers in a set of data

RANGE

The lowest test score was 72 and the highestwas 96 so therangewas 24

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96 72 = 24


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a smaller number of things; less

FEWER

Tiffany ate 3fewercookies than John and wasstill hungry.


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the result from subtracting one numberfrom another

DIFFERENCE

Jill knows thedifferencebetween 37 and 15 is22.

37 15 = 22


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the result from subtracting one numberfrom another

IMAGINATIVE

Every day, Jerome was able to give a differentandimaginativestory about his missinghomework.

Now, let me see. I

think it might bein my other shoes!


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to make clear; to make known in detail

EXPLAIN

Mike was able toexplainhis answer by includingmany descriptive details.


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additional facts, explanations, ideas,and/or descriptions

DETAILS

Jonathan includeddetailsin his story to explainthings better

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decided or settled

RESOLVED

The problem wasresolvedwhen Shanaapologized for being mean.


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a drawing using lines to showinformation in an organized way

LINE GRAPH

Theline graphof temperatures in Novemberhad a line that kept going lower and lower

.

November Average Daily

Temperatures

15

20

25

30

35

40

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14

Date

De

greesF


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not known; not described; an unknown

UNIDENTIFIED

Kim knew the previouslyunidentifiedbird was ablue heron after looking it up in a bird book.


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something known to exist or to havehappened

FACT

It is afactthat Earth is not flat.


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a belief or judgment that is not certain

OPINION

The school bus is a zoo, is anopinion.


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a passage selected from somethingwritten

EXCERPT

Before answering the questions, he carefullyread the shortexcerptfrom the book.


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a figure of speech in which two dissimilarthings are compared using like or as

SIMILE

A good example of asimileis, Raquel lit up theroom like sunshine.


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a liquid metric measurement equal toabout 1.06 quarts

LITER

Celia and Jerry were so thirsty that they eachquickly drank aliter-sized bottle of water.

1 L


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having the form of a story

NARRATIVE

Nathan included many details in his personalnarrativeso people would know a lot about him.


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a reaction or answer to written material

RESPONSE

Jarrod wrote a longresponseto the testquestion because he had many things to say.


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a picture of evenly spaced horizontal andperpendicular linesusually used forlocating things (looks like graph paper).

GRID

Ronnie used thegridon the city map to locatethe downtown museum.

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

A B C D E F G H I J


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a detailed examination; study; research

INVESTIGATION

Jessicasinvestigationinto her familys historyuncovered a famous Underground Railroad

conductor.


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looking over something written in orderto correct or improve

EDITING

James made sure he did a good job ofeditinghis narrative because he wanted it to beperfect.


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longer; lengthened; stretched out

EXTENDED

Ron checked hisextendedresponse to makesure he had written enough.

!


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describing a number that is divisible by 2with no remainder

EVEN

Rochelle knew thatevennumbers could bedivided by 2.

10 2 = 5 24 2 = 12

16 2 = 8 28 2 = 14

20 2 = 10 34 2 = 17


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a task or problem done to develop skill

EXERCISE

Brittany completed the first writingexerciseinone hour and had another hour and a half to

finish the second writingexercise.


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choose; pick out; take by preference

SELECT

On the multiple-choice questions, Karen had tocarefullyselectthe right answer.


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a set of numbers used to locate a pointon a graph or plane

COORDINATES

Thecoordinatesof the hidden treasure were(4, 5) on the map.

6

5

4

3

2

1

0 1 2 3 4 5 6


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events of an age or era shown on a scale(in order)

TIME LINE

Thetime lineshowed what important events

came before the Declaration of Independenceand what events happened afterwards.


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equal in value

EQUIVALENT

The decimal 0.75 isequivalentto the fraction .

0.75 =


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a drawing using rectangles of equalwidth to show information (data) in anorganized way

BAR GRAPH

By looking at thebar graph, Jill was able to tell

that it rained more in April than in March orMay.

Rainfall

0

2

4

6

8

10

JAN

FEB

MAR

APR

JUN

JUL

AUG

Month

Inc

hesofRain


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stated a number in a briefer or less exactform by dropping a number on the rightand raising or lowering the number on theleft (based on the dropped number)

ROUNDED

Kanisharounded6.5 up to 7 and rounded 6.4down to 6.

6.5 7 and 6.4 6


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to leave out; to fail to include

OMIT

Gayle checked over her narrative to make sureshe didntomitany details that were asked for

in the directions.


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(verb) to give the best guess based onavailable data; (noun) the best guessbased on available data

ESTIMATE

(verb) Reginaldestimatedhe could afford thethree shirts because he had $22 and eachshirt cost $6.29.

(noun) TheestimateReginald made for the costof the three shirts was $19.00.


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any number that divides evenly intoanother (with no remainder)

FACTOR

Nate found out that 4 was afactorof 12 whenhe evenly divided 4 into 12.

12 4 = 3


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a line that has a beginning and an end

LINE SEGMENT

Ms. Walton drew aline segmenton the boardthat started at point A and ended at point B.

A B


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a math formula that repeats

PATTERN

Gregory found the numberpatternwas tomultiply by two and subtract one.

(3, 5, 9, 17, 33, 65)

( ___ 2 ) 1 = ____


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a measure of 3 feet or 36 inches

YARD

The size of Mrs. McQueens room isapproximately 8yardsby 14yards.


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small units of weight and measure (16ounces in a pound and 8 ounces in a cup)

OUNCES

If Mark sold 10 cups of lemonade at thecarnival, he sold a total of 80ounces.

(10 cups x 8 ounces = 80 ounces)


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the space occupied or enclosed by cubicunits

VOLUME

The cake was a 2 by 6 by 10 rectangle and

Katrina figured out itsvolumewas 120 cubicinches.

10 "

2"

6"


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the space occupied or enclosed bysquare units

AREA

The garden was a 6 by 10 rectangle andCharley figured out itsareawas 60 squarefeet.


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an angle whose measurement is lessthan 90

ACUTE ANGLE

Sally drew anacute anglethat looked like the

hands of the clock when it was 3:05.


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an angle whose measurement is morethan 90

OBTUSE ANGLE

Tiffany drew anobtuse anglethat looked like

the hands of the clock when it was 2:50.


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lying in the same direction but alwaysthe same distance apart

PARALLEL LINES

Railroad tracks are a great example ofparallel

lines.


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meeting another line at a right angle

PERPENDICULAR

The grounds crew set up the goals postsperpendicularto the ground.


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an angle whose measure is 90

RIGHT ANGLE

At 3:00, the hands of the clock form arightangle.


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to arrange or rank in a special way

ORDER

She arranged the set of numbers inorderfromlowest to highest.

{ 3, 7, 10, 11, 15 }


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to state or express in a brief, conciseform

SUMMARIZE

After reading the entire, long passage, Jackiewas able to summarize it into just two

sentences.


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knowledge communicated; facts

INFORMATION

Dave checked all theinformationprovidedbefore attempting to answer the question.


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a portion or section of a written work

PASSAGE

Read the entirepassagecarefully and look forclues.


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original or basic materials used inresearch or to find answers

SOURCE

Twosourcesyou might use to find the capital

of a state are an encyclopedia or an almanac.

ENC

YCLOPEDIA

MA-ME

A

LMANAC


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cautious; thorough

CAREFUL

Jennifer was being extremelycarefulwhen shethoughtfully read each question before writing

her answers.


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to inspect for accuracy

CHECK

Devon knew he had tocheckevery answer inorder to pass the test.

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