Verbs
Nouns
Adjectives
Reading Terminology
Negative Connotations
100
To calm
What is appease?
100
The beast of online shopping, Amazon, offers prime-time shopping fees as a(n) ________________ to potential clients to buy from their website.
What is an incentive?
100
thin and bony
What is gaunt?
100
She danced so lightly, it seemed like she was a butterfly fluttering through the garden
What is a simile?
100
Hitler was the epitome of an ________________ person, given that he had no remorse about his killing millions of innocent Europeans.
What is amoral?
200
To figure out.
What is decipher?
200
The unfortunate mass killing that occurred at Oregon's community college last week.
What is a calamity?
200
My sister talks a lot in her sleep, but she's so incoherent then that we can never figure out what she's saying.
What is incoherent?
200
text plus schema plus logic
What is to infer?
200
Lately, Kris Kardashian has ______________ her former husband and a former Olympic gold medal winner, for his recent transformation.
What is maligned?
300
to relieve; make easier to endure
What is alleviate?
300
Something that weakens, damages, or destroys
What is a blight?
300
Very small compared to what is expected.
What is nominal?
300
In a similar fashion, Similarly, in common
What are compare and contrast words.
300
Having a very bad reputation; widely known for being vicious, criminal, or deserving of contempt
What is infamous?
400
To waste; spend or use foolishly
What is squander?
400
A nice way to say something unpleasant.
What is a euphemism?
400
shockingly obvious or outrageous
What is flagrant?
400
To gain meaning from the text.
What is to comprehend?
400
Although Tom Brady was absolved from finishing his consequence for deflating the footballs, his reputation will always be ________________ by the fact that he had cheated.
What is tainted?
500
To unite into a single whole;combine
What is incorporate?
500
A hint about something.
What is an allusion?
500
To do something based on impulse, not rule or reason.
What is arbitrary?
500
An author has a focus that he/she wants to get across about his/her topic.
What is a main idea or main point?
500
There are still many countries in this world who __________ children and have them work in terrible conditions in factories for 12 hour days.
What is exploit?
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