Critical Thinking Comprehensive Review

Parts of Speech

100

Find the noun in “Wow! What a beautiful dress!” I exclaimed enthusiastically. 

What is 'dress"?

200

List the pronoun in “Wow! What a beautiful dress!” I exclaimed enthusiastically. 

What is "I"?

300

Find the adjective in "Wow! What a beautiful dress!” I exclaimed enthusiastically. 

What is "beautiful"?

400

Find the adverb in “Wow! What a beautiful dress!” I exclaimed enthusiastically. 

What is "enthusiastically?"

500

Find the interjection in “Wow! What a beautiful dress!” I exclaimed enthusiastically. 

What is "Wow!"

Prefixes, Suffixes, and Base Words

100

List two words with a prefix, suffix, and base word in "Eva found the information unimaginable."

What are "information" and "unimaginable"?

200

This is the suffix in the word "happiness."

What is -ness?

300

In the word "happily", this is the suffix.

What is -ly?

400

Identify and interpret the prefix in "misbehave."

What are "mis-" and "not behave"?

500

List two words with a prefix, suffix, and base word from "Eva was under the mistaken impression that education was a right available to everyone in the world."

What are "mistaken" and "impression"

Division of Syllables

100

Divide "spider" into syllables.

What is spi-der?

200

Divide "anywhere" into syllables.

What is an/y/where?

300

Divide "Mississippi" into syllables.

What is mis-sis-sip-pi?

400

Divide "Maine" into syllables.

What is Maine?

500

List the number of syllables in "congeniality"?

What is six?

Using a Dictionary

100

This portion of the following dictionary entry helps with proper pronunciation:

[ˈjenəsəs]

NOUN

1. the origin or mode of formation of something:

   "this tale had its genesis in fireside stories"

What is [ˈjenəsəs]?

200

This is the part of speech for "genesis"

[ˈjenəsəs]

NOUN

1. the origin or mode of formation of something:

   "this tale had its genesis in fireside stories"

What is NOUN?

300

The definition of "cap" in the sentence, "we had to cap our spending on luxuries" is:

[kap]

NOUN

1. a kind of soft, flat hat, typically with a visor:

2. a protective lid or cover for an object such as a bottle, the point of a pen, or a camera lens:

3. an upper limit imposed on spending or other activities:

What is number 3, or "an upper limit imposed on spending or other activities"?

400

Biology, Histology, and Cytology all contain this Latin suffix which mean "study of".

What is -ology?

500

This part of the dictionary entry divides the word into syllables.

in·i·tial

[iˈniSH(ə)l

ADJECTIVE

1. existing or occurring at the beginning.

NOUN

1. the first letter of a name or word, typically a person's name or a word forming part of a phrase.

VERB

1. mark or sign (a document) with one's initials in order to authorize or validate it.

   
   

What is in-i-tial?

Word Families

100

Philanthropy, philosopy, and philharmonic all come from this Greek root.

What is "phil", the term for love.

200

Claustrophobia means fear of cramped places. Hydrophobia is fear of water. Xenophobia is fear of people from other countries. Pbob is Greek for this.

What is "fear"?

300

Given symphony, homophone, phonetic, and symposium, one does not belong.

What is "symposium"?

400

One of the following terms is not part of the Latin word family for paper:

1. notification

2. annotate

3. notorious

4. connotation

5. commotion

What is commotion?

500

One of the following is not part of the word family:

ingest

eject

interject

project

What is"ingest"? Ject is Latin for to throw.