Vocab Definitions
Someone who dies or is killed for a cause
Martyr
He deferred completing his homework until after his violin lesson.
Defer - to put off to a later time; postpone
Yeah. You see, this little liquor store we got in mind cost seventy-five thousand and we figured the initial investment on the place be ‘bout thirty thousand, see. That be ten thousand each. Course, there’s a couple of hundred you got to pay so’s you don’t spend your life just waiting for them clowns to let your license get approved.
Walter
What is the difference between a simile and a metaphor?
Similes compare two unlike things using like or as
What fruit do raisins start as?
Grapes
Not safe, strong or steady
Precarious
When my Mr. Nolan kept kicking the back of Mya's chair during class, she gave him a look of strong indictment.
Indictment - An expression or statement of strong disapproval
Most of the trouble exists because people don’t just sit down and talk to each other.
Karl Lindner
Provide an example of an allusion
Correct probably idk
What is Mr. Cam's favorite college basketball team (known as the Blue Devils)
Duke
to disturb, excite or anger someone or something
Agitated
Mr. Cam was exasperated with Neveaha after she continued to draw circles despite asking her not to for 6 months.
Exasperated - Intensely irritated and frustrated.
Ain’t nobody said you wasn’t grown. But you still in my house and my presence. And as long as you are – you’ll talk to your wife civil. Now sit down.
Mama
“The sun smiled down on the 8th grade PBIS event” is an example of what literary device?
Personification
Name 10 colleges in the United States
Any 10 work idc
Sullen
Bad-tempered or gloomy
Mr. Adelson has kept a very organized ledger of who has already paid class dues.
Ledger - A book used to record money paid and received.
“I’m sorry Walter - I had my life staked on this deal, too”
BOBO
Smelly Steliotes stupidity suspected seven students of secretly cheating
Alliteration
Who was the first overall pick in the 2022 NBA draft?
Paolo Banchero
Fester
become rotten, infected or worse because of neglect
Mr. Liptock has never assimilated to US culture since moving from Ireland in the 1843.
Assimilate - the act of adopting the ways of another culture
“I know [you love to talk] and I don’t mind it sometimes…I want you to cut it out, see – The moody stuff, I mean. I don’t like it. You’re a nice-looking girl…all over. That’s all you need, honey, forget the atmosphere. Guys aren’t going to go for the atmosphere – they’re going to go for what they see”
George
Students cried in the hallways after the beloved FSAS rabbit "sparky" kicked the bucket.
Idiom
Whats the approximate population of the world?