Vocabulary
the past in 209
2024
100

The ______ student praised the teacher’s teaching, cleaned the boards, in order to get a better grade.  Everyone called him the teacher’s pet.

what is sycophantic 

100

Hemingway and the Titanic 

What is the iceberg "structure" 

100

Buyer did this of artist Mauizio Cattelan's Comedian piece after buying it for $6.24 million.

Ate it (banana held up on a wall with duct tape)

200

To ample means this.

And this is our word that means ...

What is to Walk 

able to walk// ambulatory

200

Anglo Saxon monster 

AKA the Swedes (Beowulf's people)

Beowulf's Narrative form 

Take away from Beowulf 

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What is Grendel 

What are the Geats 

Epic poem

What is without bravery and loyalty a community is doomed - like the Geats

200

highest grossing Disney/Pixar film about a teenage girl navigating the emotional turbulence of adolescence.

Inside Out 2

300

Flying the white flag, the enemy ________ in surrender. 

The Greeks used the __________ of the Trojan horse to gain access into _______ (name of city)

What are capitulate and subterfuge

300

Language of The Canterbury Tales 

type of irony most present in The Pardoner's Tale

Author of The Canterbury Tales 

What is middle English 

dramatic irony 

Geoffrey Chaucer 

300

This nation sent 10,000 troops to help Russia battle Ukrainian forces in Russia's Kursk region

Became the first Black woman to top Billboard's country music chart

What is North Korea 

Who is Beyonce (Cowboy Carter)

400

stars in the sky //grains of sand on the beach 

My anger as in to raise my ___

Generous in a magnifying kind of way 

what is myriad

what is ire

what is magnanimous 

400

Three symbolic flowers in Hamlet 

otherwise known as blank verse 

columbine , rue , violets , daisies 

Iambic pentameter

400

The CEO of this nation wide restaurant chain blamed its filing for bankruptcy on a $20 "endless shrimp" promotion.

Microsoft announced a deal to restart a reactor at this nuclear plant - the site of the nation's worst meltdown in 1979, to power its data centers.

What is Red Lobster

What is Three Mile Island 

500

A wrecking ball 

insulting kind of remark 

I reject that claim and will not accept that truth 

what are 

raze  - disparaging - repudiate 

500

The popular bird society 

Fictional town  in Newfoundland for The Bird Artist 

Main fishing industry in Newfoundland and author of BA 


What is Audubon 

Witless Bay 

Cod fishing and Howard Norman 

500

"The most common way people givew up their power is by thinking they don't have any."

"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize that half of them are stupider than that." 

Katherine Mansfield (author)

Albert Einstein (scientist)

Alice Walker (author )

George Carlin (comedian)


Alice Walker (author )

George Carlin (comedian) 

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