Vocab I
Vocab II Punny Outcomes
Feeling Passive Aggressive
Writing
Challenger Section
200

This is the term for a species that no longer has any living members, like the dodo bird.

What is extinct?

200

In the armed forces, you'd find a lot of these hanging around above captains.

What is a major-ity?

200
A situation where the passive voice would be useful.

What is, when the doer is unknown, where you dont want to say who did something, where the doer is unimportant, where you want to emphasize the action over the doer, etc.?

200

Copy cats will fall prey to this.

What is plagiarism?

200

Goodbye Unlocking Potential, Promising Tomorrow, hello...

What is Shine bright, Reach New Heights?

400

This word describes the feeling of happiness or enjoyment, often associated with doing something you love.

What is pleasure?

400

Thank goodness its only a game, death isn't permanent

What is respond?

400

The basic construction of the passive voice

What is Thing (obj/sub) + be verb + p.p. + by (x)?

400

The location of counterclaims in an argumentative essay

What are the 1st/2nd ¶ topic sentence? or 3rd ¶ topic sentence?

400

This American composer fused Jazz and Classical to make a sound uniquely American

Who was George Gershwin?

Rhapsody in Blue

600

This term can refer to the importance, worth, or usefulness of something, or to the numerical amount assigned to it in mathematics or economics.

What is value?

600

If you don't tell all the details, you are said to lie by...

what is emission?

600

Change this sentence to the passive voice (omit the doer):

They have been figuring out how to play brawlstars all week.

How to play brawlstars has been being figured out all week.

600

(Ferguson, 1993)

What is an in-text citation?

600

You can know my momentum or my position

What is the Heisenberg uncertainty principle?

800

Scientists report these after conducting experiments or research, referring to the results or conclusions they have discovered.

What are findings?

800

A small Joey jumped into its mother's pouch, it's an example of a...

what is ruin (roo in)

800

Describe the life of an HLC student in three phases using the past tense:

S1 (past)

S3 (present)

S6 (future)

Speaking lessons are taught by Mr. Andrew to S1 students

TSA exams are administered to S3 students

Tears are shed by S6 students at graduation
800

Delivered at the end of your writing, I am the last thing you "see"

What is a works "sighted"?

800

A classic painting technique, known as "smoked off" that mimics the out of focus nature of things visible to the eye. Notable particularly in this painting

What is Sfumato?

1000

The famous literary character from Sir. Arthur Conan Doyle was known to do this during the course of his novels. 

What is figure out clues/crimes?

1000

This country doesn't take time to machine its metallic products cleanly.

What is a high burr nation?

1000

Describe 6 things happening in the picture in the passive voice:

a painting of a bee is being painted

a remote controlled car is being played with

a branch is sat on

A kite is being held

dreams are dreamt 

a book is read

1000

Write out the full citation for this source in APA:

Martin Heidegger's essay, "On the Origin of the Work of Art" (143-212) in the book Basic Writings edited by David Farrell Krell in 2008 published by Harper Collins

Heidegger, M. (2008). On the origin of the work of art. In D. F. Krell (ed.), Basic Writings (pp. 143-212). Harper Collins.                

1000

誦讀靜夜思

床前明月光,

cong4 cin4 ming4 jyut6 gwong1, 

Moon shining bright front of my Bed

疑是地上霜。

ji4 si6 dei6 soeng5 soeng1。

 I think there is frost upon the ground.

舉頭望明月,

geoi2 tau4 mong6 ming4 jyut6,

 I raise my head and gaze at the bright moon,

低頭思故鄉。

dai1  tau4 si1 gu3hoeng1。

 I bow my head and reminisce about my hometown. 

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