Verbs
To attribute to a particular cause, source, or origin
A system of naming
What is nomenclature?
Concerned mainly with facts; unimaginative.
What is literal?
Eclectic and lexicon come from which Greek root?
What is Lexis?
Three days after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, Nagasaki was almost________.
Conscripted
Obliterated
Proscribed
Transcribed
What is obliterated
To make a sound recording for later reproduction
What is transcribed?
Compulsory service usually for a military draft
What is conscription?
Shameful; embarassing
What is ignominious?
What Greek root is choreography derived from?
what are Graphein or Gramma
The 1940s film clowns Laurel and Hardy were usually featured in _______ situations involving bumbling, misunderstanding and pratfalls.
Circumscribed
Eclectic
Graphic
Ignominious
What is ignominious?
To express consent or agreement; to assent.
What is to subscribe?
What are both of the following examples of?
"If you can't be a good example, you'll just have to be a horrible warning." - Catherine the Great
"It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness." - Eleanor Roosevelt
What is an epigram?
People who want careers in animation, web design, commercials, film, and video would need to study what type of art?
What is Graphic?
What does nomen mean?
What is to name?
On the title page of Lord Jim, by Joseph Conrad, readers find the following__________: “It is certain my conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.” -Attributed to Novalis
Eulogy
Epigraph
Lithograph
Epigram
What is an epigraph
In J.K. Rowling's wizarding world, the enchanted walls of Hogwarts _____________ the magical realm where young witches and wizards embark on their extraordinary journey of learning and adventure.
A) Obliterate
B) Circumscribe
C)Transcribe
D) Proscribe
What is circumscribe
What does it mean if someone is an EGOT winner? What does the acronym stand for?
Who are people who have won an:
Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony.
What vocabulary word/adjective would describe the menu from a restaurant that served food inspired from Italian, Croatian, Korean, and Jamaican cultures?
What is eclectic?
Which latin root means: to write?
What is scribo/scribere/scripsi/scriptum?
The _______ process was developed at the start of the 19th century by Aloys Senefelder (1771-1824), a Bavarian actor and dramatist. He found printing costs too high to be able to afford enough copies of a play to go around the cast, and he searched for a cheap means of printing his own.”-Manly Banister, Prints from Stone and Plate
Literacy
Lithographic
Transcription
Acronymic
What is lithographic?
What vocabulary word is proscribed in NYC?
What is Graffiti
Choose any 3 of the 5 pseudonyms listed below and identify their real names:
Drake
Eminem
Lana Del Ray
Ellis Bell
Rihanna
Aubrey Graham, Marshall Mathers, Elizabeth Woolridge Grant, Emily Bronte,Robyn Fenty
According to ranker.com, who are 3 of the most well known literate humans of all time? (concerning the 2nd definition for the word). I will give it to any group who gets 3 out of the top 5.
Who are:
Tesla, Newton, Einstein, Da Vinci, Galileo
Name the three vocab words derived from the Greek root Onoma.
What are onomatopoeia, acronym, and pseudonym
“What makes ___________ architecture so difficult to grasp is the widely varied approaches, the great mélange of historical models used, and the strange appearance it brought to many American cities, which often found several styles of office buildings, many of them incompatible with each other, in a single block on a single street.”-William Dudley Hung, Jr., Encyclopedia of American Architecture
Eclectic
Nomenclature
Circumscribed
Lexicon
What is eclectic?