Grammar Questions
What is "verbing" / What is doing the verb?
If a group of people gathers for a colloquy, they are having this
What is a conversation?
The stem "anti" means this
What is "against" or "opposite"?
The Latin phrase "inter alia" closely translates to this
What is "among other things"?
Something which is correct, sound, and well-supported is something that has this:
What is "validity"?
A student who does not write enough on her essay may be asked to expatiate on, or do this, on her essay
What is "elaborate"?
This is the question you use to find the direct object
What is being verbed?
Several students in the class are vociferous when asking questions; in other words, they are...
What is "loud" or "loudly voiced"?
The suffix "-ology" means this
What is "science" or "study of"?
Eschatology, with the suffix "ology", means the study of this
What is / are "last things" / the afterlife / whatever happens after death?
If you describe something you like as ne plus ultra, then you consider it to be this
What is the "peak of perfection"?
The pungent smell of cheese interrupted the wonderful smell of desserts. The cheese had this kind of smell
What is sharp?
This is the question you ask to find the indirect object
To or for what is the verbing happening?
An ineffable feeling is a feeling which you can't ____________
What is "describe"?
The stem "fac" means to "make" or "do". One vocab word using "fac" is this:
What is: malfeasance or malefic?
This "ism" means "the doctrine or belief in pleasure-seeking"
What is hedonism?
This is a type of a word that is "stuck to", or modifies, an adjective, adverb, or verb
What is an adverb?
The students asked their teacher many questions just before the exam started, attempting to temporize the start of the exam. They were trying to do this to the exam
What is "delay"?
Even though you want it to be, the phrases "to like," "to smile," and "to run" are NEVER this part of speech
What is a verb?
This "ist" word means "someone who hates women"
What is a misogynist?
The stem "corp" always has to do with this
What is "the body"?
For many AoPS students, who come at 7:15PM on weekdays, AoPS class is postprandial, or ___________
What is "after dinner"?
A criminal who dissembles about his alibi on the night of a murder is suspicious because he is actually...
What is "concealing (the truth) through pretense"?
What is the technical word for this kind of person?
A preposition cannot be alone in a sentence. It must have a ____________ ___________.
What is a prepositional phrase?
An actual fact, a free gift, and to repeat again are all examples of tautologies, or _____________________
What is/are needless repetition(s)?
The stem "male" is normally used in words that have this connotation
What is a bad connotation?
A teacher would have to separate two pugnacious students because they are probably doing this
What is "fighting"?
A conjunction always does this
What is "connects two sentences, ideas, or things in a list"? (Close answers are acceptable)
The students who didn't study struggled on the test, facing the ineluctable consequences of their laziness. The consequences were, in other words...
What is "inescapable" or "not escapable"?
To check if something is an adjective, make sure it is modifying or describing a ____________
What is a noun?
A miscreant somnambulist would be a person who ________________________ while ____________________
What is "does wrong while sleepwalking"?
A word that uses the stem "voc" or "vox" has to do with this:
What is the "voice"?
A cryptic monograph would be a __________________________________ that is / has _______________________
What is an essay on a single subject that has a secret meaning (or is hard to understand)?
The prefix "in" has two meanings. One is "into", and the other is this
What is "not"?
The impecunious student made an insidious plan to get money from his fellow students. In other words...
What is "The poor student made a sly/sneaky plan..." (etc)