Vocab
To make easier or milder, relieve; to quiet, calm; to put an end to, appease, satisfy.
What is assuage?
A figure of speech that compares two things using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
I wanted to go to the park however it started to rain.
A: I wanted to go to the park, however, it started to rain.
B: I wanted to go to the park however, it started to rain.
C: I wanted to go to the park; however, it started to rain.
D: Correct as is.
What is C: "I wanted to go to the park; however, it started to rain"?
At the Senior Prom, my sister and most of her friends were glad that men are no longer expected to take the (prerogative, hiatus) in choosing dance partners.
What is prerogative?
Ms. Rogers favorite beverage:
What is Diet Coke?
To draw forth, bring out from some source (such as another person).
What is elicit?
A figure of speech where human qualities are given to non-human things, animals, or ideas.
What is personification?
My best friend who lives in another state is visiting this weekend.
A: My best friend, who lives in another state, is visiting this weekend.
B: My best friend who lives in another state, is visiting this weekend.
C: My best friend, who lives in another state is visiting this weekend.
D: Correct as is.
What is A: "My best friend, who lives in another state, is visiting this weekend"?
She was a social climber who had tried to (exhort, ingratiate) herself with the popular kids.
What is ingratiate?
Ms. Rogers' cat's name:
A: Frisky
B: Finley
C: Tigger
D: Kitty
What is Tigger?
A person or thing that is a perfect example of a particular quality or type.
What is epitome?
The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences.
What is syntax?
The recipe calls for three ingredients; flour, sugar, and eggs.
A: The recipe calls for three ingredients, flour, sugar, and eggs.
B: The recipe calls for three ingredients: flour, sugar, and eggs.
C: The recipe calls for three ingredients: flour sugar and eggs.
D: Correct as is.
What is B: "The recipe calls for three ingredients: flour, sugar, and eggs"?
Do we need new laws to combat crime, or rather, more (callow, stringent) enforcement of the laws we already have?
What is stringent?
Ms. Rogers has ___ tattoos.
A: 6
B: 20
C: 35
D: 10
What is 20?
Belonging to someone or something by its very nature, essential, inherent.
What is intrinsic?
Repetition of the same initial consonant sounds in a series of words.
What is alliteration?
There was one thing he feared most: failure in front of his family.
A: There was one thing he feared most; failure in front of his family.
B: There was one thing he feared most, failure in front of his family.
C: There was one thing he feared most failure in front of his family.
D: Correct as is.
What is D: Correct as is?
I followed a (circuitous, inadvertent) path through the woods, not because I feared pursuit, but because I was lost.
What is circuitous?
Ms. Rogers went to ____ colleges before becoming a teacher.
A: 1
B: 2
C: 3
D: 4
What is 4?
The modification of the social patterns, traits, or structures of one group or society by contact with those of another.
What is acculturation?
A story or work in which characters, events, and details have symbolic meanings to teach a moral or political lesson.
What is an allegory?
The meeting covered three topics budgeting which took the most time marketing strategies which sparked a debate and team-building activities which everyone enjoyed.
A: The meeting covered three topics; budgeting which took the most time, marketing strategies which sparked a debate, and team-building activities which everyone enjoyed.
B: The meeting covered three topics: budgeting, which took the most time; marketing strategies, which sparked a debate; and team-building activities, which everyone enjoyed.
C: The meeting covered three topics: budgeting, which took the most time, marketing strategies, which sparked a debate, and team-building activities, which everyone enjoyed.
D: Correct as is.
What is B: "The meeting covered three topics: budgeting, which took the most time; marketing strategies, which sparked a debate; and team-building activities, which everyone enjoyed"?
My grasp of trigonometry was (seditious, tenuous) until I attended the remedial study sessions.
What is tenuous?
Ms. Rogers' first car was a...
A: Volkswagen Beetle
B: Mercury Grand Marquis
C: Toyota Corolla
D: Ford Escape
What is a Mercury Grand Marquis?