Short Stories Vocab
Anxious, fearful, or nervouse
What is apprehensive?
Something continuing without pause or interruption
What is incessant?
This grammatical mistake is when a comma separates two independent clauses.
What is a comma splice?
The villain in Austin Powers apparently got a PhD and has this name.
Who is Dr. Evil
This NFL team won the first Super Bowl and is still in the running to win a Super Bowl this year, too.
Who are the Green Bay Packers.
Friendly or good-natured.
What is affable?
An irresistible urge to behave a certain way.
What is compulsion?
A word that conjoins two independent clauses is known as this.
What is a coordinating conjunction?
Once they saw the size of the shark in the movie Jaws, Chief Brody exclaims that "we are going to need a bigger" this.
What is a boat
This is the 4th planet from the Sun.
What is Mars?
Payback or punishment for a misdeed.
What is retribution?
The ability to judge well.
What is discernment?
When writing an analytical essay, a writer should write in this tense.
What is present tense?
This large wind instrument is used for cultural music by the indigenous people of Australia
What is a didgeridoo.
The second largest country in the world is also dubbed the world's most educated country.
What is Canada?
Freedom from consequences.
What is impunity?
A person's or animal's nature, especially as it permanently affects their behavior.
What is temperament?
"Although he was tired, he went to school anyway" is this kind of sentence type.
What is a complex sentence?
Ed Sheeran's albums are named after mathematical symbols. What three basic mathematical symbols has he used.
What is Marcel?
Harshness or sharpness of tone, temper, or manner.
What is asperity?
To take in information, ideas, or culture and understand them fully.
What is assimilate?
The difference between a phrase and a clause is this:
What is a phrase is missing a subject or verb (or both) and a clause has both.
In Star Wars, Han Solo boasts that this ship did the Kessel run in 12 parsecs.
This is the language that most musical terms stem from.
What is Italian?