8th Grade Academic Vocabulary Test - Week One

Target Language or Knowledge:

allusion a figure of speech, reference or representation to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art antecedent a part that goes before; a word or group of words to which a pronoun refers bias a particular tendency or inclination; prejudice carbon cycle the processes in which carbon moves and is stored in the ecosystem banking system a system of banks, chartered by Congress, to provide security for the economy landmark case a court ruling marking an important event or turning point in history assassination the murder of a prominent person algebraic expression a mathematical phrase involving at least one variable and sometimes numbers and operation systems inaugural address the first speech given by a newly elected president abolitionist an antislavery campaigner in the 18th and 19th centuries algebraic equation an equality involving an algebraic expression