Vocabulary 11
A word meaning: Going away from somewhere or something; give up responsibility for something; to formally give up or resign; failure to live up to one's duties
What is abdicate?
A specific person, place, thing or object; requires a capital letter.
What is a proper noun?
A person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something; an adversary.
What is an antagonist?
Max and his friends went to the park yesterday and played basketball. Where does the Subject start and end?
What is Max/friends?
What is abdicate?
Word that comes the Latin meaning "to be filled with horror or loathing"
What is abhor?
A verb that expresses physical or mental activity.
What is an action verb?
The most intense, exciting, or important point of something; a culmination or apex.
What is the climax?
Jake and his friends went to a movie last night with his parents. Where does the predicate start and end?
What is went/parents?
When I went home last weekend, I wanted to __ my little nieces and my Mom and bring them to Blackfoot.
What is abduct?
Word meaning wearing away at something in an unpleasant manner. Causing damage or eroding away at something.
What is abrasive?
What is verb that doesn't show action such as: is, are, am, was, being, been, or sensory verbs: taste, smell, hear, touch, and see.
What is a linking verb?
When a reader is aware of something that a character isn't.
What is dramatic irony?
Ms. Benjamin, my English teacher, is sort of weird sometimes and talks to herself. Who is the subject?
Sarah went to the doctor because there was an ___ growth on her arm.
What is abnormal?
This word comes from the Latin meaning to withhold or keep back.
What is abstain?
Shows the relationship of a noun or a pronoun to some other word in a sentence
What is a preposition?
The use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot
What is foreshadowing?
Identify the verbs in these two sentences:
1. You are delightfully quirky.
2. Jeremy jumped in the ocean.
What is are and jumped?
The prisoner went to church and confessed to the priest because he wanted to be __ of his sins.
What is absolved?
A very bad, low down situation; the next level beyond horrid.
What is abject?
1. Word for words that describe other adverbs and verbs. Control freaks describing how, when, to what degree.
2. Word for words that describe nouns and pronouns.
What are adverbs and adjectives?
One who suffers or sacrifices for a cause
What is a martyr?
Name four linking verbs.
What are is, am, were, being, been?
Sometimes my parents worry about who I'm hanging out with because they don't want me to __ their habits, language, and views.
What is absorb?