IEW Vocab A
Odoriferous
What is having a strong smell?
Concurrently
What is taking place at the same time or in the same location?
Lave
What is the washing of things?
Cursory
What is hastily done?
Where a thesis goes in an essay
What is the last sentence of the first paragraph?
Reprove
What is to scold or find fault with?
"He died." is what sentence opener?
VSS - Very Short Sentence #6
Prestigious
What is having a high reputation, honored, esteemed?
Surly
What is unfriendly, rude, or bad-tempered?
Amplification
What is an expansion of a statement?
Bolster
What is to support?
Thesis definition
What is a statement that an author intends to prove or disprove?
Apathy
What is indifference?
The second sentence opener ...
What is a prepositional phrase?
Concurrently
What is taking place at the same time or in the same location?
Chiefdom
What is the territory or people over which a chief rules?
Salvage
What is the process of rescuing something, or the benefit you get from the rescue?
Corroborate
What is to confirm?
Op-ed
What is an opinion editorial?
Fracas
What is a brawl or wild fight?
Recite the Topic-Clincher rule with the hand motions.
The topic sentence and clincher sentence must repeat or reflect 2-3 key words.
Sacrosanct
What is very sacred or holy?
Vociferous
What is crying out noisily; clamorous?
Yond
What is short for yonder; over there?
Jocular
What is joking or facetious?
Add 25 points if they pronounce facetious properly!
Stave
What is a stanza or verse of a poem?
Contentious
What is quarrelsome?
Name the six dressups
What are:
1) -ly word
2) who/which clause
3) strong verb
4) because clause
5) strong adjective
6) www.asia
Inoculation
What is the introduction of a microorganism or agent of disease into a host organism?
Counterpane
What is a bedspread or quilt?
Encomium
What is a formal expression of praise?
Caricature
What is a humorous imitation?
(And is sometimes a drawing or cartoon)
Soliloquy
What is the act of speaking alone or to oneself, especially as a theatrical device?
Ostentatious
What is pretentious or showy?
Ascetic
What is a person who practices the disciplines of fasting, meditation, prayer, and self-denial?
Colloquial
What is characterized by ordinary or familiar speech?
Eminent domain
What is the power of the state to take private property for public use with compensation to the owner?
Profligate
What is wasteful and extravagant?
Gerund
What is a word that functions as a noun and is formed by adding -ing to the simple present form of a verb?
(Accept anything near this one)
Consider bonus points for a perfect or near-perfect answer.
Ambiguous
What is vague or unclear?
Name the six sentence openers ...
What are:
1) subject opener/catchall
2) prepositional opener
3) -ly word opener
4) -ing word opener
5) clausal (www.asia.b)
6) vss (very short sentence) 2-5 words