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Tenth-grade reading asks learners to move confidently among literary analysis, argument, source evaluation, laboratory science, mathematics, computing, history, economics, psychology, philosophy, and the arts. This level emphasizes precise academic language, disciplinary meanings, connotation, word relationships, and the ability to interpret unfamiliar vocabulary in demanding context.

This independently authored 800-word beta curriculum is arranged in twenty-three pages of up to thirty-five words. Pages containing words 1–500 include five cloze questions drawn only from that enhanced range; words 501–800 remain fully visible and editable as list pages while expanded practice is developed. Every row includes an editable subject-field label and a conservative word-study note about transparent affixes, compound structure, capitalization, or dictionary base forms. The cited sources calibrate range and difficulty only; all learner-facing definitions, examples, quizzes, and descriptions are original KSSR copy.

Please note: the vocabulary lists for grades 9~11 have been selected to ensure no overlap with the previous grade level. If the words are too specialized or difficult for you, please go back to grade levels 4~8 and review the words on those pages.

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Words 176–210 of 800
#	Word	Details	Meaning	Sample sentence
176	objective correlative	noun Study Field: Grade 10 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Term structure: objective + correlative. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	a concrete set of objects or events designed to evoke a particular emotion without naming it directly	The empty crib and unopened letter form an objective correlative for grief.
177	pathetic fallacy	noun Study Field: Grade 10 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Term structure: pathetic + fallacy. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	the attribution of human emotion to weather, landscape, or other parts of nature	Calling the storm clouds angry is a pathetic fallacy.
178	blazon	noun Study Field: Grade 10 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Base-form focus: blazon is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.	a poetic description that praises a person by cataloguing individual physical features	The sonnet's blazon compares the beloved's eyes, hair, and hands with precious objects.
179	sestet	noun Study Field: Grade 10 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Base-form focus: sestet is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.	a six-line stanza or the final six lines of a Petrarchan sonnet	The sestet answers the problem introduced in the octave.
180	octave	noun Study Field: Grade 10 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Base-form focus: octave is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.	an eight-line stanza or the opening eight lines of a Petrarchan sonnet	The octave presents the speaker's conflict before the poem turns.
181	tercet	noun Study Field: Grade 10 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Base-form focus: tercet is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.	a stanza consisting of three lines	Each tercet in the poem develops one image of winter.
182	pastoral	noun Study Field: Grade 10 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Base-form focus: pastoral is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.	a literary mode that presents rural life, shepherds, or nature in an idealized or reflective way	The pastoral contrasts the quiet countryside with the pressures of court life.
183	mock epic	noun Study Field: Grade 10 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Term structure: mock + epic. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	a work that applies the elevated style and conventions of epic poetry to a trivial subject	The mock epic describes a household argument as if it were a legendary battle.
184	quantitative meter	noun Study Field: Grade 10 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Term structure: quantitative + meter. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	poetic rhythm organized by patterns of long and short syllables rather than stress	Classical Greek verse often uses quantitative meter.
185	accentual-syllabic meter	noun Study Field: Grade 10 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Term structure: accentual + syllabic + meter. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	poetic rhythm regulated by both the number of stresses and the number of syllables in a line	An English sonnet commonly uses accentual-syllabic meter with five stressed beats per line.
186	colligation	noun Study Field: Grade 10 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Suffix focus: -ation commonly forms a noun naming an action, process, or result.	the tendency of a word to occur with particular grammatical structures	The verb depend shows colligation with the preposition on.
187	deixis	noun Study Field: Grade 10 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Base-form focus: deixis is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.	language whose reference depends on the speaker, place, or time of an utterance	Words such as here and tomorrow illustrate deixis.
188	anaphoric reference	noun Study Field: Grade 10 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Term structure: anaphoric + reference. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	a reference that points backward to an earlier word or idea in a text	In Maya found the key and she smiled, she creates anaphoric reference to Maya.
189	cataphoric reference	noun Study Field: Grade 10 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Term structure: cataphoric + reference. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	a reference that points forward to a word or idea introduced later	In When he arrived, Luis apologized, he creates cataphoric reference.
190	speech act	noun Study Field: Grade 10 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Term structure: speech + act. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	an utterance understood as performing an action such as promising, requesting, warning, or apologizing	The sentence I promise to return is a speech act that creates a commitment.
191	cohesive device	noun Study Field: Grade 10 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Term structure: cohesive + device. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	a word or structure that links ideas and helps a text hold together	The transition however is a cohesive device that signals contrast.
192	discourse marker	noun Study Field: Grade 10 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Term structure: discourse + marker. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	a word or phrase that organizes spoken or written interaction and signals relationships between parts	The discourse marker in conclusion tells readers that the argument is ending.
193	hedging language	noun Study Field: Grade 10 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Term structure: hedging + language. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	wording that limits certainty or softens the strength of a claim	The phrase the results may suggest is hedging language.
194	booster	noun Study Field: Grade 10 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Base-form focus: booster is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.	a word or phrase that emphasizes certainty or strengthens a writer's commitment to a claim	The phrase clearly demonstrates functions as a booster in the conclusion.
195	passivization	noun Study Field: Grade 10 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Suffix focus: -ization forms a noun for a process of making or becoming.	the grammatical process of making the receiver of an action the subject of a passive clause	Passivization changes Researchers measured the samples into The samples were measured.
196	transitivity	noun Study Field: Grade 10 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Suffix focus: -ity commonly forms a noun naming a quality, state, or condition.	the grammatical system through which clauses represent actions, participants, and circumstances	The essay examines transitivity by asking who acts and who is acted upon in each sentence.
197	modality	noun Study Field: Grade 10 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Suffix focus: -ity commonly forms a noun naming a quality, state, or condition.	the grammatical expression of possibility, necessity, permission, probability, or obligation	The modal verb might expresses uncertain modality.
198	epistemic modality	noun Study Field: Grade 10 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Term structure: epistemic + modality. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	language expressing a speaker's judgment about the probability or truth of a statement	The phrase must have left uses epistemic modality to signal a strong inference.
199	deontic modality	noun Study Field: Grade 10 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Term structure: deontic + modality. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	language expressing permission, duty, prohibition, or obligation	The sentence Students must cite sources uses deontic modality.
200	evaluative language	noun Study Field: Grade 10 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Term structure: evaluative + language. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	wording that expresses a judgment about value, quality, importance, or desirability	Calling the policy shortsighted is evaluative language rather than neutral description.
201	receptor protein	noun Study Field: Grade 10 biology, biochemistry, and health-science term Word study: Term structure: receptor + protein. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	a protein that binds a particular signal and begins a cellular response	Insulin attaches to a receptor protein on the cell surface.
202	signal transduction	noun Study Field: Grade 10 biology, biochemistry, and health-science term Word study: Term structure: signal + transduction. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	the sequence by which a cell converts an outside signal into internal activity	Signal transduction carries the hormone's message from the membrane to the nucleus.
203	second messenger	noun Study Field: Grade 10 biology, biochemistry, and health-science term Word study: Term structure: second + messenger. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	a small intracellular molecule that relays and amplifies a signal received at a receptor	Cyclic AMP acts as a second messenger after adrenaline binds to a cell.
204	endocrine gland	noun Study Field: Grade 10 biology, biochemistry, and health-science term Word study: Term structure: endocrine + gland. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	an organ that releases hormones into body fluids, usually the bloodstream	The thyroid is an endocrine gland that affects metabolic rate.
205	hormone receptor	noun Study Field: Grade 10 biology, biochemistry, and health-science term Word study: Term structure: hormone + receptor. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	a cellular protein that recognizes and binds a particular hormone	Only cells with the matching hormone receptor respond directly to insulin.
206	hypothalamus	noun Study Field: Grade 10 biology, biochemistry, and health-science term Word study: Base-form focus: hypothalamus is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.	a brain region that helps regulate temperature, hunger, thirst, sleep, and endocrine activity	The hypothalamus detects changes in blood temperature.
207	pituitary gland	noun Study Field: Grade 10 biology, biochemistry, and health-science term Word study: Term structure: pituitary + gland. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	an endocrine gland beneath the brain that releases hormones controlling growth and other glands	The pituitary gland secretes a hormone that stimulates the thyroid.
208	thyroid gland	noun Study Field: Grade 10 biology, biochemistry, and health-science term Word study: Term structure: thyroid + gland. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	an endocrine gland in the neck that helps regulate metabolism and development	The thyroid gland requires iodine to make its main hormones.
209	adrenal gland	noun Study Field: Grade 10 biology, biochemistry, and health-science term Word study: Term structure: adrenal + gland. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	an endocrine gland above a kidney that produces stress-related and salt-regulating hormones	The adrenal gland releases adrenaline during an emergency.
210	pancreas	noun Study Field: Grade 10 biology, biochemistry, and health-science term Word study: Base-form focus: pancreas is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.	an organ that produces digestive enzymes and hormones controlling blood glucose	The pancreas releases insulin after a meal.

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1. Calling the storm clouds angry is a ___.

Answer: pathetic fallacy

2. The sentence I promise to return is a ___ that creates a commitment.

Answer: speech act

3. Cyclic AMP acts as a ___ after adrenaline binds to a cell.

Answer: second messenger

4. The sonnet's ___ compares the beloved's eyes, hair, and hands with precious objects.

Answer: blazon

5. The transition however is a ___ that signals contrast.

Answer: cohesive device

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