Vocabulary #1
Figurative Language
Vocabulary #2
More Figurative Language
Vocabulary #3
100
made to seem more important
exaggerated
100
I'm so hungry I could eat a horse!
hyperbole
100
despicable
hateful
100
Thanks a lot...for nothing!
Sarcasm
100
take for granted
assumption
200
causing great mental or physical pain; agonizing
excruciating
200
The pig says oink, the duck says quack.
Onomatopoeia
200
doomed
condemned to death or a horrible fate
200
He is like a bull in a china shop.
Simile
200
opaque
not clear
300
nervously
anxiously
300
He is slipper like an eel.
Simile
300
dubiously
doubtful
300
My new toy broke. What a rip off!
Idiom
300
made smaller
diminished
400
with great urgency
desperately
400
The streets are paved with gold.
Metaphor
400
splintered
broke into many smaller pieces; disintegrated
400
The snowball landed with a SPLAT!
Onomatopoeia
400
tied to something
tethered
500
the ability to float in the water
buoyancy
500
The computer was in a bad mood.
Personification
500
spoils
goods stolen or taken forcibly from a person or place
500
Mrs. Frailey is the sunshine of our lives!
Metaphor
500
angrily
resentfully
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