Vocabulary 1
Vocabulary 2
Borrowed English
Verb Complements
Random
100
What is the vocabulary term that means appear or occur suddenly and unexpectedly.
What is pop up.
100
What is the vocabulary term that means a fee you pay when you break the rules?
What is a fine.
100
What is the original English word for te le fung?
What is telephone.
100
What is a verb complement?
What is any grammatical structure required by a verb to make a valid sentence.
100
About how many languages are there in the world?
About 3000 languages.
200
What is the vocabulary term that means take and use (something that belongs to someone else) with the intention of returning it.
What is borrowed.
200
What is the vocabulary term that means to completely remove or get rid of?
What is eliminate.
200
What is the original English word for sueter?
What is sweater.
200
What is an intransitive verb?
What is a verb that takes no complement.
200
English is the official language in how many countries?
Over 40 countries.
300
What is the vocabulary term that means worry (someone); make anxious?
What is concern.
300
What is the vocabulary term that means to send from one person, thing, or place to another; convey? (From Chapter 11)
What is transmit.
300
What is the original English word for herkot?
What is haircut.
300
What are the two kinds of verbs that take only a single complement?
What are action verbs and linking verbs.
300
What is the name of the native Irish language?
What is Gaelic.
400
What is the vocabulary term that means certain to happen; unavoidable?
What is inevitable
400
What is the vocabulary term meaning to maintain (something) in its original or existing state?
What is to preserve (preserving).
400
What is the original English word for rushawa?
What is rush hour.
400
What is an action verb?
What is a verb that typically expresses an actor-action-recipient of action relationship among the subject, verb, and object.
400
True or false. In 1975, the French started a commission to try to stop, and even give fines for, the use of English words.
True
500
What is the vocabulary term that means to give signs or warning of; portend?
What is threatening.
500
What is the vocabulary term that means to not able to be read or understand? (From Chapter 11)
What is undecipherable.
500
What is the English word for ensalada?
What is salad.
500
What is a linking verb?
What is a verb that typically describes the nature of the subject.
500
True or false. Some Swedish schoolgirls have started making the plural forms of words by adding -s, as in English, instead of the Swedish way of adding -ar, -or, or -er.
True.
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