Gradable or Ungradable?
Collocations
Vocabulary Cloze
Vocab Lightning Round
Factoids
100

Difficult

gradable

100

_________committed

Deeply, sincerely, totally

100

According to Jenna Schilstra, the use of emojis can _____________and intensify our message.

Amplify

100

nerd

geek

100

When was the first Youtube video ever made?

2015

200

wonderful

ungradable

200

__________________exaggerated

wildly

200
A few months after the election, he was _______________ president of the new country.

pronounced

200

permission

green light

200
According to the TOEFL reading, many American trends can be explained by what?

the decade it was from

300

freezing

ungradable

300

desperately

in need

300

_____________________, such as singers and athletes, can make a video go viral with a single tweet.

Tastemakers

300

imitation/mockery

parody

300

 According to NPR, people who checked social media the most frequently had almost _______ times the risk of depression compared with people who checked less often.

three

400

embarrassing

gradable

400

Utterly

ridiculous, disgusting, etc. (something negative)

400

His time in the Peace Core was truly _______________; he was a totally new man when he came back.

transformative

400

method, channel

medium

400

According to Kevin Alloca, the feeling of _____________is what sets old media apart from today's media and the media of the future.


ownership

500

spontaneous

both

500

_________________important

vitally

500

He led many to believe that he had a luxurious and stress-free life; in reality, he was ____________________to make new relationships and was actually in a great amount of debt.

 hard-pressed

500

symbols

semiotics

500

According to YouTube's Kevin Alloca, what 3 factors make a video go viral?


tastemakers, communities of participation, and unexpectedness