Word Wizardry
This word means the opposite of "ancient."
What is modern/new?
In "She runs quickly," the word quickly is this part of speech.
What is an adverb?
When it's "raining cats and dogs," this is what's actually happening.
What is it's raining very heavily?
I have hands but can't clap. I have a face but no eyes. What am I?
What is a clock?
What is the opposite of "Brave"?
Cowardly / Afraid
A person who studies languages is called this.
What is a linguist?
This is the correct version of: "Me and him went to school."
What is "He and I went to school"?
If someone "spills the beans," they do this.
What is reveal a secret?
Rearrange the letters of SILENT to get a word that describes a good listener in class.
What is LISTEN?
If a person is not "Generous," they are described as...
Stingy / Mean / Selfish
This adjective describes someone who loves giving to others — think the opposite of greedy.
What is generous?
"By the time she arrived, they ___ already left." This verb tense completes the sentence.
What is had (past perfect)?
A student who's "burning the midnight oil" before exams is doing this.
What is studying/working very late at night?
This type of word sounds exactly the same as another word but has a completely different meaning — like knight and night.
What is a homophone?
What is the antonym of "Permanent"?
Temporary
"Melancholy," "sorrow," and "grief" all belong to this category of emotions.
What is sadness?
This is the term for joining two independent clauses with only a comma and no conjunction — considered an error.
What is a comma splice?
To "beat around the bush" means to avoid doing this in a conversation.
What is getting to the point?
Complete the Shakespeare quote: "To be or not to be, ___ is the question." — then name the play.
What is "that" / Hamlet?
Things that are "Modern" are the opposite of things that are...
Ancient / Obsolete / Old-fashioned
This single word means "a word that sounds like the thing it describes" — like buzz, crash, or hiss.
What is onomatopoeia?
"The cake was eaten by the students" uses this grammatical voice, while "The students ate the cake" uses the other.
What is the passive voice?
This idiom — involving a bird and a stone — means to accomplish two goals with a single action.
What is "kill two birds with one stone"?
"I before E, except after C" — give TWO English words that break this rule entirely.
What are weird, seize, either, neither, their, science (any two)?
The opposite of "Success" is...
Failure