Name:

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Finishing the Sentence Stems

Directions: Complete the sentence stems below and be sure to include the bolded
word in the sentence.

synonym
During writing time, I was trying to find a similar, but more powerful, word

to get my message across, so I ____________________________________________________

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antonym
It was April Fools day, so instead of saying what I really wanted to say, I

decided to _________________________________________________________________________

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climax
In the novel, Stone Fox, Searchlight was nearing the end of the race and was

finally catching up to Stone Fox, but then ________________________________________

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analogy
To point out relationships that are not always evident, she _____________________

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suffix
Tiffany was revising her writing and noticed that one the words needed to be

changed from present tense to past tense, so she ________________________________

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 prefix
Dylan knew that he wanted to change the words meaning to not

comfortable, but he ________________________________________________________________

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root word
I came across a word I didnt know the meaning of, so I removed the suffix

and prefix to _______________________________________________________________________

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genre
Michelle was having a hard time deciding how to organize the books on the

bookshelf, so she decided __________________________________________________________

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stanza
Mrs. Brinson said, Find evidence in the poem that shows Sara was missing

her father, so I ____________________________________________________________________

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excerpt
I went to the library to check out books on Pygmy Marmosets, but I didnt

have a lot of time, so I ___________________________________________________________

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 persuade
My mom said, If you really want your own room, you are going to have to

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inform
Victoria put together a whole presentation about Poland, so that she could

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