adjective: (of a person or a person's words) having or showing the ability to speak fluently and coherently.
verb: express (an idea or feeling) fluently and coherently.
What is articulate?
100
a word (other than a pronoun) used to identify any of a class of people, places, or things
What is a noun?
100
a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
What is a metaphor?
100
a sign used to join words to indicate that they have a combined meaning or that they are linked in the grammar of a sentence
What is a hyphen?
100
a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words (e.g., rain cats and dogs, see the light )
What is an idiom?
200
anxious or fearful that something bad or unpleasant will happen.
What is apprehensive?
200
a word or phrase naming an attribute, added to or grammatically related to a noun to modify or describe it.
What is an adjective?
200
a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid (e.g., as brave as a lion, crazy like a fox ).
What is a simile?
200
carry the meaning of a speaker or writer's original words without using the exact words
What is an indirect quote?
200
a word opposite in meaning to another (e.g., bad and good )
What is an antonym?
300
skillful in physical movements; especially of the hands
What is deft?
300
word that can function by itself as a noun phrase and that refers either to the participants in the discourse (e.g., I, you ) or to someone or something mentioned elsewhere in the discourse (e.g., she, it, this ).
What is a pronoun?
300
the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
What is an alliteration?
300
a punctuation mark used to indicate possession.
What is an apostrophe?
300
marked by extreme care in treatment of details
What is meticulous?
400
ready to accept control or instruction; submissive.
What is docile?
400
a word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence, and forming the main part of the predicate of a sentence, such as hear, become, happen.
What is a verb?
400
the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named (e.g., cuckoo, sizzle ).
What is an onomatopoeia?
400
a punctuation mark indicating a pause, typically between two main clauses, that is more pronounced than that indicated by a comma.
What is a semicolon?
400
an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference
What is an allusion?
500
consume all of one's attention or time
What is engross?
500
a word or phrase that modifies or qualifies an adjective, verb; expressing a relation of place, time, circumstance, manner, cause, degree, etc.
What is an adverb?
500
exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
What is a hyperbole?
500
express the meaning of (the writer or speaker or something written or spoken) using different words, especially to achieve greater clarity
What is paraphrasing?
500
a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction (e.g., faith unfaithful kept him falsely true )