Synonyms & Connotation
These three are synonyms of the word insinuate from the list below.
trick hint apex
suggest hide gracious
forgive eclectic imply
What are suggest, hint, and imply?
This word, meaning outrageously bad/shocking, fits in the blank below:
One of the more ______ calls was the spot of the football on Josh Allen‘s fourth-down sneak attempt.
What is Egregious?
This is a warning or proviso of specific stipulations, conditions, or limitations.
What is a Caveat?
These three words help you understand the meaning of ambiance in the sentence below:
That's why the ambience, the design, the service, the style is just as important as the menu.
What are design, service, and style?
This is a type of writing in which the author tells a story.
What is a Narrative?
Of the six words at the bottom, these are synonyms of dingy in the sentence below.
I see her standing off under the sweet gum tree she used to dig gum out of; a look of concentration on her face as she watched the last dingy gray board of the house fall in toward the red hot brick chimney
Worn Pristine Colorful
Drab Sweet Shabby
What are Worn, Drab, and Shabby?
This word, meaning forerunner, belongs in the blank in the sentence below.
"It's the first crack of the bat that's the true ______ of spring."
What is harbinger?
This is a word that means wrongdoing, especially by a public official.
What is Malfeasance?
This word helps to understand the word rifling in the sentence below:
After dinner Dee (Wangero) went to the trunk at the foot of my bed and started rifling through it.
What is through?
This is a type of writing in which the author is trying to get you to think, believe, or do something.
What is Persuasive?
This word has a negative connotation in the sentence below:
Indulging in the grotesque is what has given these films their prescience.
What is Grotesque?
This word, meaning persecute, belongs in the blank of the sentence below.
"I couldn't bear it any longer, being named after the people who ______ me."
What is oppress?
A word that means too extreme to bear or intolerable.
Out of the words at the bottom, this is the most likely meaning of the word heavy in the quote below.
"Listening to the young folks, nothing's good enough for them. Next thing you know, they'll be wanting to go back to living in caves, nobody work anymore, live that way for a while. Used to be a saying about 'Lottery in June, corn be heavy soon.' First thing you know, we'd all be eating stewed chickweed and acorns."
Hefty Impenetrable Bountiful Thick
What is Bountiful?
What is spatial?
These are words/phrases that have a negative connotation in the passage below.
The sun shone on a beautiful Virginia day as the three women satisfied heavy demands and faced new challenges. Evening would arrive, casting shadows on the intersection, where their laughter and conversation would herald the end of another exhausting day.
What are heavy demands, casting shadows, and exhausting?
This word, meaning survey, fits in the blank in the sentence below.
Total company sales were their best since 2014, the year Horowitz went on that __________ trip to the New York malls and joined the company.
What is Reconnaissance?
This is a word representing the most perfect or typical example of a quality or class.
What is Quintessential?
This word is the most helpful in understanding the meaning of disproportion in the sentence below.
A dead mouse here makes an insect imbalance there, a population disproportion later, a bad harvest further on, a depression, mass starvation, and finally, a change in social temperament in far-flung countries.
What is imbalance?
This is a Point of View where a "god-like" narrator who has access to the thoughts, feelings, and actions of all characters in the story, as well as knowledge of future events.
What is Third Person Omniscient?
From this passage these four phrases have positive connotations while the others have negative connotations:
“I came into this village like a bridegroom to his beloved, bearing gifts of high religion; the very crowns of holy law I brought, and what I touched with my bright confidence, it died; and where I turned the eye of my great faith, blood flowed up. Beware, Goody Proctor--cleave to no faith when faith brings blood. It is mistaken law that leads you to sacrifice. Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it.”
glorious, sacrifice, bearing gifts, blood flowed up, justify the taking, mistaken law, precious gift, great faith
Positive: Glorious, bearing gifts, precious gift, great faith
Negative: Sacrifice, blood flowed up, justify the taking, mistaken law
This word, meaning stubborn, fits in the blank below:
Such reluctance to take extreme action off the table mistakes an ______ lack of imagination for principle.
What is Obdurate?
This is a word meaning to express vehement protest.
What is Fulminate?
These three words help to convey a tone of boredom and apathy in the passage below.
There was the proper swearing-in of Mr. Summers by the postmaster, as the official of the lottery; at one time, some people remembered, there had been a recital of some sort, performed by the official of the lottery, a perfunctory, tuneless chant that had been rattled off duly each year;
What are perfunctory, tuneless, and duly?
This is a type of organizational structure most often found in essays and not often in other forms of writing.
What is Order of Importance?