Vocab
Lollygag
What is: "Wasting time"?
Correct / incorrect: "I'm doing good"
What is: "incorrect"?
Correct: I'm doing well
Both an animal and an item used in baseball
What is: bat?
Brouhaha
What is: "uproar"?
Correct / incorrect: Three deers crossed the road at noon
What is "incorrect"?
Correct: three deer crossed the road at noon
Both a measure of time & a measure of size
What is: minute?
Bumfuzzle
What is: "confused"?
Correct / incorrect: "This is one rule grammar sticklers love to argue about"
What is: incorrect
Correct: This is one rule about which grammar sticklers love to argue.
Both a term for organization of a line & a fight
What is: a row?
Cattywampus
What is: "catty corner"?
True / False: Em-dashes, en-dashes, and hyphens are NOT interchangeable
What is: "true"?
If you want to insert a side thought into your sentence, em-dashes are what you’re looking for.
En-dashes are used to separate values. Ex: I can eat between 8–10 donuts before I get sick.
Hyphens are reserved for compound words.
Both a local event & a way to describe someone with light skin
What is: fair?
Nincompoop
What is: "fool"?
True / False: When you’re trying to describe something in English, there’s a specific order in which your adjectives have to go
What is: "True"?
Both a makeup item & a way to describe close-fitting items
What is: compact?