Language Arts Unit 4 There and Back: Vocabulary

Question 1

Grim Definition

Answer 1

Very serious or gloomy

Question 2

Blunder Definition

Answer 2

A stupid or careless mistake

Question 3

Provisions Definition

Answer 3

The action of supplying or providing something for use

Question 4

Dire Definition

Answer 4

Extremely serious or urgent

Question 5

Ominous Definition

Answer 5

Giving the worrying impression that something bad is going to happen; threatening inauspicious

Question 6

Hinder Definition

Answer 6

Make it difficult for someone for something to happen

Question 7

Avenge Definition

Answer 7

Inflict harm if return for a wrong behalf

Question 8

Redeem Definition

Answer 8

To compensate for the bad aspects of or faults

Question 9

Menace Definition

Answer 9

A person or thing that is most likely to cause harm; dangerous or threatening

Question 10

Desolation Definition

Answer 10

A state of complete emptiness or destruction

Question 11

Redundancy Definition

Answer 11

The state of being not or no longer useful

Question 12

Stereotype Definition

Answer 12

A widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing

Question 13

Subplot Definition

Answer 13

A subordinate plot in a play, novel, or similar work

Question 14

Episode Definition

Answer 14

A short adventure within a larger story

Question 15

Symbol Definition

Answer 15

A mark or character used as a conventional representation of an object, function, or process

Question 16

Genre Definition

Answer 16

A style of category of art, music, or literature

Question 17

Autobiographical Definition

Answer 17

Dealing with the author’s life

Question 18

Flashback Definition

Answer 18

A scene in a film, novel, etc. set in a time earlier than the main story

Question 19

Chronological Definition

Answer 19

Events following the order in which they occurred

Question 20

Diplomacy Definition

Answer 20

The art of resolving conflicts without resorting to fighting or trickery

Question 21

Tact Definition

Answer 21

The skill of knowing the right to say and do in delicate situations

Question 22

Prejudice Definition

Answer 22

An intense dislike or hostility toward an individual or group, not based on fact but in what a person imagines another to be like