Synonyms
(100 points): "The loud _ in the hallway made it difficult to concentrate." What is a synonym for "commotion"?
Answer: What is bustle?
(100 points): What does "empathy" mean?
Answer: What is understanding of, feeling for?
(100 points): What does the root "facere" mean?
Answer: What is to make?
(100 points): What does the prefix "non-" mean?
Answer: What is not?
How many toes does Mr. Wiest have?
Ten!
(200 points): "Her efforts seemed _ after all the hard work." What is a synonym for "futile"?
Answer: What is useless?
(200 points): What does "dissipate" mean?
Answer: What is scatter, break up?
(200 points): What does the root "videre" mean?
Answer: What is to see?
(200 points): What does the prefix "en-" mean?
Answer: What is in or into?
How tall is Mr. Wiest?
6'7'
(300 points): "He was known for his _ actions that often caused trouble." What is a synonym for "indiscriminate"?
Answer: What is careless?
(300 points): What does "reconciliation" mean?
Answer: What is making peace?
(300 points): What does the root "fundere" mean?
Answer: What is to pour or to melt?
(300 points): What does the prefix "re-" mean?
Answer: What is back or again?
What is the chemical symbol for the element that is the only naturally occurring liquid metal at room temperature?
Hg, Mercury
(400 points): "She watched the vast _ of the ocean." What is a synonym for "expanse"?
Answer: What is breadth?
(400 points): What does "dialect" refer to?
Answer: What is vocabulary and slang specific to a region?
(400 points): What does the root "tribuere" mean?
Answer: What is to assign or allot?
(400 points): What does the prefix "com-" mean?
Answer: What is with or together?
What are the three rhetorical appeals we studied?
Ethos, logos, pathos
(500 points): "The judge ordered _ for the crime committed." What is a synonym for "retribution"?
Answer: What is vengeance?
(500 points): What does "condolences" mean?
Answer: What is sympathy or comfort for someone who is grieving?
(500 points): What does the root "cernere" mean?
Answer: What is to distinguish or set apart?
(500 points): What does the prefix "dis-" mean?
Answer: What is apart or away from?
What FOUR things will be due on finals day
Padlet, Bingo sheet, website, vocab test!