Idioms
This idiom means to be born wealthy.
Born with a silver spoon
A verb meaning to hold the attention of
engross
We read an article about an island full of this animal
snakes
What type of adjectives are these: gardening, cooking, decorative
purpose
What are the two most popular names for Santa Claus?
Kris Kringle and Saint Nick
This idiom means that you are no longer responsible for something.
Off the hook
barricade
Who was rumored to have escaped the Russian Revolution?
Anastasia
What is the difference between a phrase and a clause?
A phrase is any collection of words that behaves like a part of speech, like a noun phrase (“my brother Stu”), an adjectival phrase (“in a different shade of blue”), or an adverbial phrase (“with elegance and tact”). A clause is any noun phrase plus a verb; they can be sentences, but they don't always have to be.
In Home Alone, where are the McCallisters going on vacation when they leave Kevin behind?
Paris
This idiom means to stop being impatient and wait.
Hold your horses
An adjective meaning easily molded
malleable
The change from an agrarian and handicraft economy to one dominated by industry and machine manufacturing
The industrial revolution
Tom, _________ glasses were missing, could not read the book.
whose
In Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, what was the first name of Scrooge?
Ebenezer
This idiom means to look very similar to something of someone else.
adjective meaning original condition, spotless
pristine
What is the biggest danger in contacting isolated tribes in the Amazon?
transmitting viruses
What are credentials?
a qualification, achievement or personal quality
Which Christmas song contains the lyric "Everyone dancing merrily in the new old-fashioned way?"
"Rocking Around The Christmas Tree"
This idiom refers to someone who makes the decisions.
Calling the shots
Technical terminology for a special group
jargon
What Lebanese group was seriously crippled by an Israeli scheme to explode pagers?
Hezbollah
What is a simile?
a comparison of two unlike things without using the words like or as
According to the song, what did my true love give to me on the eighth day of Christmas?
Eight maids a-milking