Estimate or calculate a quantity fairly accurately.
Hint: a__________
What is approximate?
100
A short extract from a film, broadcast, or piece of music or writing. Hint: e______
What is excerpt?
100
Occurring at irregular intervals; not continuous or steady. Hint: i___________
What is intermittent?
100
Ascertain the size, amount, or degree of something by using an instrument or device marked in standard units or by comparing it with an object of known size. Hint: m______
What is measure?
100
Made necessary by particular circumstances or regulations. Hint: r________
What is requisite?
200
A spontaneous group discussion to produce ideas and ways of solving problems.
Hint: b________
What is brainstorm?
200
Intended to explain or describe something. Hint: e_________
What is expository?
200
The expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect. Hint: i____
What is irony?
200
A series or system of written symbols used to represent numbers, amounts, or elements in something such as music or mathematics. Hint: n_______
What is notation?
200
Combine a number of things into a coherent whole.
Hint: s_________
What is synthesize?
300
A continuous sequence in which adjacent elements are not perceptibly different from each other, although the extremes are quite distinct. Hint: c________
What is continuum?
300
The way in which something is arranged or set out.
Hint: f______
What is format?
300
Form an opinion or conclusion about. Hint: j____
What is judge?
300
A view or judgment formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge. Hint: o______
What is opinion?
300
A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid. Hint: s_____
What is simile?
400
A person's education, experience, and social circumstances. Hint: b_________
What is background?
400
A category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter. Hint: g____
What is genre?
400
A thing that provides a means of gaining access to or understanding something. Hint: k__
What is key?
400
Express the meaning of the writer or something written using different words, esp. to achieve greater clarity.
Hint: p_________
What is paraphrase?
400
Make practical and effective use of. Hint: u______
What is utilize?
500
Arrive at a fact or a conclusion by reasoning. Hint: d_____
What is deduce?
500
A supposition or proposed explanation made on the basis of limited evidence as a starting point for further investigation. Hint: h________
What is hypothesis?
500
Taking words in their usual or most basic sense without metaphor or allegory. Hint: l______
What is literal?
500
A group of words taken from a text or speech and repeated by someone other than the original author or speaker.
Hint: q________
What is quotation?
500
A change or difference in condition, amount, or level, typically with certain limits. Hint: v________