Below you will find the some of the contents of the Master Assessment Study Guide that contains all the vocabulary and definitions that the eighth graders need to know for the Kansas State Reading Assessment. The rest will be added at a later date.
Base Words: Prefixes Suffixes Figures of Speech
agri--land ab--away ation--state of being, action, process imagery--mental picture
aud--hear im/in--not condition or quality of hyperbole-extreme exaggeration
bene--good mal--bad ee--one resembling, one who performs a metaphor-direct comparison
corp--body inter--between specified action simile—comparison using like/as dict/dic--say uni--one ette/et--small
dur--to last ive--performing or tending toward a
equ/equi--equal specified action
hydro--water
luna--moon
nav--ship
ped--foot
spec--to see, look
psych--mind
sci--to know
sent/sens--to feel
sol/soli--alone
self--automatic
semi/hemi/demi--half
thermo--heat
trans-- across, change