Parts of Speech
Noun form of 'rhetorical'
What is 'rhetoric'?
Disembodied
What is 'separate from or existing without the body'?
Laureate
Ex. 'Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland are Nobel laureates in physics.'
Sleeping, resting
What is 'dormant'?
What is 'epilogue'?
Adjective form of 'agent'
What is 'agentic'?
Enthralled
What is 'to hold spellbound'?
Daubs
Ex. 'He daubs some cologne on his neck.'
To excite
What is 'galvanizing'?
With appreciation for the _______, the children had no problem meeting up at the supposedly haunted house on Halloween.
What is 'occult'?
Verb form of abstraction
What is 'to abstract'?
Regurgitate
What is 'to bring food that has been swallowed back to and out of the mouth' and 'to repeat something without understanding it'?
Sanctification
Ex. 'The sacred site required another sanctification after it had been defiled by the invaders.'
Moral judgment
What is 'ethical'?
_______ ringing disturbed all the patients from their slumber.
Comparative form of 'giddily'
What is 'giddier' or 'giddiest'?
Intimation
What is 'to communicate delicately and indirectly'?
Glutted
Ex. 'The roads are glutted with cars.’
Unintentionally
What is 'inadvertently'?
Due to projections made by 17th century _______, people believe that Africa is much smaller than the Americas.
What is 'cartographer'?
Past tense verb form of 'perception'
What is 'perceived'?
Augustans
What is 'a style of British literature'?
Hung parliament
Ex. 'In a hung parliament, no single party has an absolute majority.'
Extraneous additions
What is 'frills'?
The President's online _______ were frequently absurd and uncensored.
What is 'declarations'?