What's the Word?
It means having the quality of being funny; comedy
HUMOR
It's a piece a cake.
It's easy.
a word that describes a noun.
ADJECTIVE
She is always smiling and always _____________.
a) somber b) cheerful c) glum
b) cheerful
It is a phrase that does not mean what it literally says. It has a special meaning.
IDIOM
When people rally behind you...
that means
They support you and cheer you on.
a word that describes a verb
ADVERB
He does not like to play games but would rather stay home and study.
He is a)playful b)happy-go-lucky c)studious
c) studious
an idea, feeling, or opinion about something or someone, especially one formed without conscious thought or on the basis of little evidence.
IMPRESSION
We were fighting but now we are over it and are all good.
It's water under the bridge.
a person, place, or thing
a NOUN
He worked on the math problem all afternoon and still could not get the right answer. He was _________.
a)happy b)exasperated c)blissful
b)exasperated
Someone's claim/story that they were somewhere else when a crime was taking place.
ALIBI
THINKING ON HER FEET
action or state of being
VERB
His skin was so pale it was __________.
a)colorless b)ruddy c)tan
a)colorless
When a word has the same linguistic root as another root, it is called a______________.
example: attention / attention / atencion
GUT REACTION
a word governing, and usually preceding, a noun or pronoun and expressing a relation to another word or element in the clause, as in “the man on the platform,” “she arrived after dinner,” “she put the present in the box”
PREPOSITION
She could be _________ when she needed someone to do something for her, whether they wanted to or not.
a)foolish b)popular c)manipulative
c)manipulative