Final Flashcards
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adj. something highly caustic or severe in effect, as critism
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Vitriolic
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adj. acceptable or agreeable to the mind or feelings
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Palatable
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adj. large in quantity or number; abundant; plentiful
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Copious
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adj. enraged; furiously; angry
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Livid
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v. to give, feel, etc. in return
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Reciprocate
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putting up a false front
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Facade(Remember to include the curl under the C)
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with suspicion, mistrust, or disapproval
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Askance
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disdainfully proud; snobbish; scornful; arrogant; supercillious
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Haughty
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a class or category of artistic endeavor having a particular form, content, technique, or the like
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Genre
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pertaining to a sense of the beautiful or to the philosophy of aesthetics(beauty)
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Aesthetic
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n. a style or technique (as in music, literature, or design) that is characterized by extreme spareness and simplicity. (simple designs)
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Minimalism
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n. actor
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Thespian
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adj. extraordinary in some bad way; glaring; flagrant
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Egregious
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n. a person who holds that the existence of the ultimate cause, as God, and the essential nature of things are unknown and unknowable, or that human knowledge is limited to experience
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Agnostic
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n. a person or thing that is typical of or possesses to a high degree the features of a whole class
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Epitome
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n. a feeling of dread, anxiety, or anguist
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Angst
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v. to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate
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Discombobulated
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n. an unreasonable fear or hatred of foreigners or strangers or of that which is foreign or strange
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Xenophobia
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adj. stealthily treacherous or decetiful
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Insidious
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adj. thought of apart from concrete realities, specified objects, or actual instances
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Abstract
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something of little importance, or a small detail
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Minutiae
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everywhere at once, well-known
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Ubiquitous
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something very small or thin, almost invisable
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Tenuous
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something or someone that is boring or uninspiring
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Pedestrian
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to use something or someone for one's advantage; such as monetary or profit
Exploit
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the dictionary meaning of a word
Denotation
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something that is not specifically said, what is between the lines
Connotation
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an account of an event(a tale)
Anecdote
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something that shows irony or sarcastic, something caustic in effect
Sardonic
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Something that will remain forever that is from deep inside someone
Indelible
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n. a bum; someone who depends on others
| adj. neglect; not giving enough required care
Derelict
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adj. immature
Sophomoric
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v. to deny something, or become defensive over, to be wrong
Refute
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adj. something hidden, or that needs to be hid like a secret, something difficult to find or understand
Abstruse
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adj. picky or hard to please, something or someone that is particular about something
Persnickety
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showing care for, comforting or reassuring
Condolence
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to show pride in something or one's self, boastful, excessive
Vanity
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unknowing or unknowable, unable to understand or having many mixed facts on, can have many different, or mixed meanings
Ambiguous
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to bring together or put side by side
Juxtapose
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a philosophical attitude associated especially with Heidegger, Jaspers, Marcel, and Sartre, and opposed to rationalism and empiricism, that stresses the individual's unique position as a self-determining agent responsible for the authenticity of his or her choices
Existentialism
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a bikini with a tank-top
Tankini
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the nature of things, their ethics
Ethos
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showing sympathy for something; sadness
Pathos
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a conversation with one's self
Soliloquy
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something hated or something that is against something
Anathema
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showing sympathy for others, caring about others
Empathy
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tight-fisted with money; requiring little
Frugal
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something fake, not real, arrogant, something that is cast as important, by is not
Pretentious
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something too soon, immature
Precocious
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someone who tries to influence someone, usually politically
Lobbyist
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adj. to a point, precise, cut to the needed information
Pithy
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adj. to be sorry of something or to complain about something; quick tempered
Petulant
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a care-free; free living person; loose morals
Dissolute
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adj. to forget or be neglate
Remiss
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adj. adjacent, the placement of objects close to one another
Contiguous
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adj. promising, favorable, encouraging, supportive (success)
Auspicious
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adj. neither hot nor cold; indifferent
Perfunctory
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adj. poor
| n. the common man
Proletarian
| Proletariat
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to trick or dupe
Beguile
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adj. praiseworthy
Laudable
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court-order; warrant
Injunction
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a result, consequence, one thing leads to another, sequence
Corollary
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to admit sparks, stimulating or witty, brilliantly, lively
Scintillates
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inflammatory, inciting a riot, provoke, stirring things up
Incendiary
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harmless, uninjurious, undamaging
Benign
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constant; unbroken; unchangeable; regular; routine
Systemic
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unyielding; ungiving; rock-like; unaffected
Immutable
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discontinuity, disconnect, irregularity, empty words
Non Sequitur
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to go crazy over something; highly emotional; high-spirted
Gonzo
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deep-thinking; wise
Profundity
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cocky, uncalled for, meddling, nosey, defiant, irrelvant
Impertinent
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bitter, sour, pungent, irritating, caustic, resentful
Acerbic
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learning; scholarship; wisdom
Erudition
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attacking an opponent's character rather than answering his argument
Ad Hominem
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one of the seven chief devils and the tempter of Faust
Mephistopheles
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an indirect intimation about a person or thing, especially of a disparaging or derogatory nature
Innuendo
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Who is the author of "The Pasture"?
Robert Frost
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Who is the author of "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"?
Robert Frost
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Who is the author of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"?
T.S. Eliot
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Who is the author of "Tommy"?
Rudyard Kipling
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Who is the author of "Waiting for Godot"?
Samuel Beckett
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Who is the author of "When Shall We Three Meet Again(The Witches Part in Macbeth)"?
William Shakespeare
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Who is the author of MacBeth?
William Shakespeare
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Who is the author of "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"?
William Butler Yeates
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Who is the author of "Jenny Kiss'd Me"?
Leigh Hunt
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Who is the author of "Dust of Snow"?
Robert Frost
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Who is the author of "The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales"?
Geoffrey Chaucer
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Who is the author of "A Midsummer Night's Dream"?
William Shakespeare
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What are the 8 parts of speech?
1. ) Nouns
2. ) Pronouns
3. ) Adjectives
4. ) Verbs
5. ) Adverbs
6. ) Prepositions
7. ) Conjunctions
8. ) Interjections
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What are the 4 sentence functions?
1. ) Declarative
2. ) Interrogative
3. ) Imperative
4. ) Exclamatory
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In "Animal Farm", who did Boxer represent?
The Russian Worker.
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When did the Russian Revolution occur?
1917
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In "Animal Farm", who did Clover represent?
A Female Version of the Russian Worker.
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In "Animal Farm", who did Mollie represent?
The Bourgoise
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In "Animal Farm", who did Benjamin represent?
The Russian Intellectuals.
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In "Animal Farm", who did Mr. and Mrs. Jones represent?
The Tsars of Russia, Nicholas II, and Capitalism.
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In "Animal Farm", who did Old Major represent?
Leon Trotsky
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In "Animal Farm", who did Snowball represent?
Leon Trotsky
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In "Animal Farm", who did Napoleon represent?
Joseph Stalin
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In "Animal Farm", who did Squealer represent?
Propaganda
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In "Animal Farm", who did Moses represent?
The Church
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In "Animal Farm", who did Mr. Pilkington represent? Which farm was he from?
England/ Foxwood Farm
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In "Animal Farm", who did Mr. Frederick represent? Which farm was he from?
Germany(Hitler)/Pitchfield Farm
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How are languages capitalized?
Any language is capitalize.
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How are north, south, east, and west capitalized?
Directions, such as the South, are capitalized. Directions aren't.
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A lot
| Alott
A lot needs to be two words.
Alott needs to be one.
Alot does not exist.
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Alright
| All Right
Alright is not Standard English, instead use all right.
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There
Their
They're
There is an adverb telling location (where?).
Their is a possessive pronoun.
They're is a contraction (They are).
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What are linking verbs?
Linking verbs are "to be" verbs.
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What are the two types of action verbs?
Transitve and Intransitive
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What are the two subject compliments?
Predicate Adjective
| Predicate noun or predicate nominative
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What is a phrase?
Two or more words acting as one of the eight parts of speech.
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What is a clause?
A group of words having both a subject and a verb.
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What are the two types of clauses?
1. ) Independent-(main) It contains a subject and verb. It is a complete thought.
2. ) Dependent-(subordinate) It contains a subject and a verb, but it is not a complete thought.
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What do adjectives modify?
Nouns and pronouns
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What are the pronoun cases?
Nominative-she, he, they
Objective- her, it, them
Possessive-her
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What three questions do adjective answer?
1. ) Which one?
2. ) What kind of?
3. ) How Many?
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What do adverbs modify?
Verbs, adjective, and other adverbs
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What questions do adverbs answer?
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How?
When?
Where?
Why?
How much?
Under what circumstance?
How often?
To what extant? (Quite, Very, Extremely, Rather)
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Give some examples of Helping Verbs
has, had, if
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List the four steps to the writing process.
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1.) Prewriting
A.)Listing
B.)Clustering
C.)Brain Storming
D.) Freewriting
2.) Writing
A.)Rough Draft
3.) Revising
A.)New Words
B.)Better Syntax
4.) Editing
A.)Grammar
B.)Spelling
C.)Punctuation
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What are the two types of clause?
Independent and Dependent clauses
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What are the three types of conjunctions?
1. ) Coordination
2. ) Correlative
3. ) Subordinating
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What is a verbal?
A verb form acting as one of the eight parts of speech.
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What are the three types of verbals?
1. ) Participles- used as adjectives
2. ) Gerunds- noun
3. ) Infinitives- nouns, adjectives, and adverbs
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What can gerunds act as? What do they end with?
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Subject
Direct Object
Indirect Object
Object of a Preposition
Predicate Nominative
They end in -ing.
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What are participles used as?
Adjeectives
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What are the four types of sentences?
1. ) Simple
2. ) Compound
3. ) Complex
4. ) Compound/Complex
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Conjugate Be
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I am
You are
He/She/It is
We are
You are
They are
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