Mixture of language skills.
Fat Kid Rules the World Vocab Words
Reading
Nouns
Dictionary
100
Words that have the opposite meaning.
What is an antonym
100
The state of being dark.
What is obscurity?
100
A poem that tells a story and usually rhymes; a folk song.
What is a ballad?
100
Can be seen, touched, smelt, heard or tasted.
What is a concrete noun?
100
A dictionary of synonyms and antonyms.
What is a thesaurus?
200
Organising words from left to right, first to last.
What is spatial order?
200
A state of dreamy meditation/fancy musing; daydream.
What is reverie?
200
Story that attempts to explain an event, or certain belief (usually involves hero, gods, etc.)
What is a myth?
200
Made of more than one noun. (Can be hyphenated, closed, or open). Ex.: sister-in-law; high school; football.
What is a compound noun?
200
The study of the origin of words and the way that their meanings have changed throughout history.
What is etymology?
300
Relationship or comparison between words. Ex.: sad : jubilant :: tall : short, or sad is to jubilant, as tall is to short).
What is an analogy?
300
Spending or giving freely and in large amounts.
What is profusely?
300
A short tale with a moral lesson. (May involve inhuman things like talking animals).
What is a fable?
300
Two words that are not joined together forming a noun. Ex.: fire drill; reading room; waiting list; high school.
What is an open compound?
300
Words that have the same spelling but different meanings.
What are homographs?
400
A group of words that have a subject and verb and are used as part of a sentence.
What is a clause?
400
Done in, or executed with secrecy; private or surreptitious.
What is clandestine?
400
Body of literature passed down generations.
What is folklore?
400
Singular in form, but names a group (army, family, bunch, stack, herd, school, pod, etc).
What is a collective noun?
400
A pair of words at the top of a dictionary, where the first word = first entry of page; second word = last entry of page.
What is a guide word?
500
Has a subject and a verb, and expresses a complete thought.
What is an independent clause?
500
To mislead or deceive the mind/judgement of.
What is deluded?
500
The way a character is introduced in a story by the narrator.
What is characterisation?
500
Shows ownership, points out or tells how many nouns there are, and always appears before a noun. Ex.: A dog / THE girl / ONE person / THAT tree).
What is determiner?
500
adv., adj., v., n., tr., aux., intr., etc.
What are parts of speech?
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