Nouns
What is a common noun?
a family, society, community, or state governed by women
What is matriarchy ?
The quality or condition of being a father; fatherly feeling or affection; fatherhood.
What is a pronoun?
an AFFIX placed before the stem or root of a word
These nouns can be perceived by one or more of the five senses. Give the answer and an example of one.
Concrete/ Answers vary...Music , painting, Statue of Liberty, Maryland, Mrs. Hicks etc.
government by a body of persons esteemed as holy
What is hagiarchy?
A person standing in a role of oversight, protection, or sponsorship to another.
The word a pronoun stands or refers to. 50 Bonus points if you can name the prefix that this word starts with.
Antecedent
ante
The prefix meaning around and an example word.
What is circum and circumference?
These type of nouns name a group of something. Give the answer and two examples.
What are collective nouns? / flock, herd etc. (answers vary)
a state of society without government or law
To assume or adopt an air of superiority; to act or speak condescendingly. OR
Frequent (a store, theater, restaurant, or other establishment) as a customer.
A pronoun that introduces a question and the pronoun that introduces a clause
interrogative and relative
Prefix meaning separate, removed, negated and an example word.
Di, Dis, Dif
Difference
These types of nouns are always capitalized. Give the answer and give an example for person, place, thing and idea.
Person: Ariana Grande
Place: London
Thing: Oreos
Idea: Buddhism
a state in which the supreme power is held actually or “in name” by a single person
monarchy
Give both forms of the word:
The possessions that someone has inherited from their father or ancestors.
Something is related to an inheritance, especially from a male ancestor.
What is patrimony / patrimonial?
a pronoun used to emphasize or intensify the noun or pronoun they refer to. Give an example sentence
Intensive
He himself carved the roast beast.
Not, opposite of, without- Name the 4 prefixes that all fit with this definition and one example.
Il, IR, IM, IN
irregular
Common - book
Proper- Harry Potter
Collective - class
Abstract - love
Concrete - heart
Compound- firetruck
a form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class
oligarchy
To restore (a person) to his or her native country.
repatriate
Give an example sentence with a reflexive pronoun and give the definition of reflexive.
We found ourselves lost in the woods.
A pronoun that refers back to the subject and is the object of the verb or preposition. They are necessary to the meaning of the sentence.
Give the prefix meaning toward, against, completely and an example.
Ob
object