Ch 1-3 vocab
Many a teenager’s room is strewn with clothing, sports equipment, and all sorts of _______
What is debris?
Ant: delightful
What is ghastly?
The following topic too broad, too narrow, or suitable for an essay.
kings and queens of England
What is too broad?
One is a compound noun.
One event during colonial times The Boston Tea Party led the colonies to support each other instead of Britain.
What is The Boston Tea Party?
True or False
A transitive verb can be both active and passive.
True
To make fun of rudely or unkindly (v)
What is jeer?
Syn: doleful
What is morose?
the underlined part an example of
From 2000 to 1000 B.C., the Celts occupied a large part of Europe.
What is prepositional phrase?
2 of These words are a concrete noun
One event during colonial times--The Boston Tea Party-- led the colonies to support each other instead of Britain.
What is colonies, Britain
Syn: bandit
What is brigand?
Synonym: turn a blind eye
What is condone?
My uncle can be so _____ when he talks about politics.
What is pompous?
What type of clause is underlined
What basketball involves is shooting baskets to make goals.
What is noun?
The type of verb “dream” is
I often dream about a long, winding path down to the beach.
What is an action verb?
the type of subject is in this sentence
Take us with you on your expedition to the South Pole.
Understood you
Ant: verbose
What is terse?
a lack of government and law (n)
What is anarchy?
sentence, run-on, or fragment
Roald Dahl grew up in Whiles. Like many children, Dahl kept a journal, he tried to hide it from his siblings.
What is run on?
the verbal or verbal phrase.
Sara and Jesse set up their materials for painting outdoors.
What is a gerund?
Supple, flexible (adj)
Ant: preserve
Efface
The definition of hoodwink
What is to mislead by a trick?
What are the six traits of a good writer?
a. ideas, content, organization, fluency, voice, conventions
b. ideas, organization, fluency, voice, word choice, content
c. ideas and content, organization, fluency, voice, word choice, conventions
d. content, organization, fluency, word choice, conventions sentence structure
What is C.?
Part of speech for “leader”
In August 1914, Ernest Shackleton became the leader of an expedition to cross Antarctica.
What is a predicate nominative?
Syn: prudish
What is prim?