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Vocabulary
The Beautiful Struggle
Grammar
Figurative Language
Word Roots
100

Someone who trades goods or sells things

Who is a merchant?
100

The name of Ta-Nehisi's older brother.

What is Bill (Big Bill)?

100

Rewrite the sentence to correct the error.

I want to go too college.

What is

I want to go to college.

100

Giving human characteristics (characteristics of a person) to non human things.

What is personification?

100

Meaning of "brev" as in brevity

What is short?

200

Divided into parts

What is segmented?

200

Ta-Nehisi's father was a member of this revolutionary organization before he started to work at Howard.

What is The Black Panther Party?

200

Rewrite the sentence to correct the error.

Their going to the park.

What is

They're going to the park.

200
Comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as".

What is a simile?

200

Meaning of "derm" as in dermatologist?

What is skin?

300

Coming from a specific place

What is hailing from?

300

Howard Univerity is referred to as this holy place in Islam

What is the Mecca?

300

Rewrite the sentence to correct the error.

 I went to New York by train but I returned by plane.

What is

I went to New York by train, but I returned by plane.

300

Combining 2 opposite things

What is oxymoron?
300

Meaning of "bio" as in biodiversity?

What is life?

400

The mental processes of thinking

What is cognition?

400

Ta-Nehisi showed he wasn't street smart by doing this on his first day at Lemmel.

What is walk to school alone?

400

One of these sentence is not a fragment.

A. Always something of interest going on at their house. 

B. There was always something of interest going on at their house. 

C. Interesting things always going on at their house.

What is 

There was always something of interest going on at their house.

400

Putting two things next to each other for effect

What is juxtaposition?

400

Meaning of "graph" as in autograph?

What is writing?

500
System where things or people are ranked; order of importance
What is hierarchy?
500

Fruitie was a culture hero for this reason

What is he always fought but never won?

500

Rewrite the sentence to correct the error.

Calvin's daily exercises include running, swimming, and to lift weights.

What is

Calvin's daily exercises include running, swimming, and lifting weights.

500

Referring indirectly to a famous person, artwork, place, etc.

What is an allusion?

500

Meaning of "cede" or "ceed" as in proceed?

What is to go (or yield)?