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Academic Vocabulary 2 - Call List

(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. There is no need to say the BINGO column name. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.


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  1. communicate a message
  2. make known
  3. something that stands for something else
  4. giving human characteristics to something nonhuman
  5. improve
  6. repetition of consonant sounds
  7. to provide facts and information
  8. comparison using “like” or “as”
  9. showing favor to one thing more than another
  10. feeling a word invokes
  11. opposite of main argument; counterclaim
  12. explain in more detail
  13. form of language in a particular place (accent)
  14. language that appeals to your five senses
  15. to convince someone to believe something
  16. to give special importance to something
  17. dictionary definition
  18. a shorter piece of a longer text
  19. how the writer feels when writing
  20. a writer’s position on something
  21. comparison without like or as
  22. conversation between characters
  23. word choice
  24. repetition of vowel sounds
  25. decide or determine
  26. the result of a particular cause
  27. stated clearly
  28. makes a claim with evidence and reasons
  29. how a text is arranged
  30. change in the poem
  31. reference to another text
  32. central idea; what the text is all about
  33. life lesson a character learns from the conflict
  34. audience knows something characters do not
  35. opposite of what you expect
  36. how the READER feels when reading
  37. the way an author writes