College Vocabulary!
Define "ubiquitous."
Present, appearing, or found everywhere.
Correct the following sentence -
Creepy creeps with eerie eyes, start to shriek and harmonize when grim grinning ghosts come out to socialize.
There are two options; you can put a comma after "creeps" and create a non-essential clause with commas on each side of "with eerie eyes," or you may remove the comma after "eyes."
While "mediums" is an acceptable plural of medium, the more commonly accepted spelling is -
Media.
What is the chemical symbol for potassium?
K
This popular Halloween movie stars Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy, and Sarah Jessica Parker as sister witches on a quest for immortality.
Hocus Pocus
When one assumes their position is correct and only cites sources that agree with them, they are exhibiting this cognitive bias.
Confirmation bias
Define "detrimental."
Having a negative impact.
Change the noun "horror" to its adjective form.
Horrifying or horrific.
This famous media philosopher coined the aphorism, "The medium is the message."
Marshall McLuhan
Disneyland was founded in Anaheim in what year?
1955
In The Addams Family, the two children are named -
Wednesday and Pugsley
This fictional archaeologist hates snakes and being called Henry Jr.
Indiana Jones
Define "hyperbole."
An exaggeration.
Name 4 of the 8 parts of speech.
Nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, conjunctions, prepositions, interjections
Information published to influence an audience and further an agenda, often but not always political, is known as -
Who invented the telephone?
Alexander Graham Bell.
This 1997-2003 TV show about a cheerleader turned vampire hunter is also your professor's favorite show!
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
What is the difference between an abstract and a concrete noun?
Concrete nouns refer to something tangible, like a table or shoes, while abstract nouns refer to intangible nouns like love or anger.
Define "scourge."
Something that causes great suffering.
Correct the following sentence -
He did the Mash, he did the Monster Mash, and it caught on in a flash.
There should be a period or a semi-colon between "He did the Mash" and "He did the Monster Mash," as each are complete sentences.
According to Understanding Media and Culture, media exists to fill four main roles in society; name two.
Educate and inform; entertain and encourage imagination; act as a watchdog for institutions of power; serve as a public forum for discussion.
What is the capital of Wyoming?
Cheyenne.
"Halloween" is short for what?
All Hallows' Eve
Which of the following is correct?
a. Judson Brewer describes using one’s breath during meditation as an anchor so that “when the boat [our focus] starts to drift, the anchor catches the ocean floor” (91).
b. Judson Brewer describes using one’s breath during meditation as an anchor so that “when the boat [our focus] starts to drift, the anchor catches the ocean floor” (Brewer 91).
A; if the source's name appears in the sentence itself, such as in a signal phrase like 'According to," you do not need to include their name in the in-text citation.
Define "macabre."
Disturbing, horrifying, ghastly.
Change the adjective "pessimistic" to its noun form.
Pessimist or pessimism.
Until this man's invention of the printing press, books were not easily available to many people.
Johannes Gutenberg
This popular game company was founded in 1889, ten years before famous vampire novel Dracula was published.
Nintendo
This famous, mysterious magician died on Halloween night in 1926 after three punches to the stomach.
Harry Houdini
When someone seems too attractive, charming, or otherwise good to be responsible for something terrible, the cognitive bias at work is the -
Halo Effect
German for "noisy ghost," this sort of spirit is known for throwing things and pinching people.
Poltergeist.
Correct the following passage; there are three errors.
“Blood gushed out as from an overturned tumbler and she fell straight on her back. He bent over her face, she was dead. Her eyes were popping out of her head as though ready to jump out of there sockets, and her forehead and whole face were terribly drawn and contorted.”
A comma after "tumbler" because it is two independent clauses; a period, colon, dash, or semi-colon between "face" and "she" because they are two complete clauses; and "there sockets" should be "their sockets."
A phone that can makes calls, take pictures and video, and connect to the internet is an example of media _______________.
Convergence
While not the first social media site, this one guaranteed you one friend - founder Tom Anderson.
Myspace
The first jack-o'-lanterns were made not of pumpkins, but these smaller root vegetables.
Turnips.
In the 1990s, this country split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia; what was its original name?
Czechoslovakia.