Vocab Quiz #4, Round 1: The Beginning

Pronoun Practice

100

In the sentence "Heather heard her heart hasten," the word "her" is this part of speech

Pronoun

200

In the sentence "Heather heard her heart hasten," the word "Heather" is this part of speech

Antecedent (half credit for "proper noun")

300

It's the missing pronoun in the tongue twister "Happy Harold held _____ hamster."

His

400

It's the missing pronoun in the sentence "Seven sisters saw five brothers beating _____ chests."

Their

500

"He" and "She" is to "Their" as "I" is to this pronoun

We

Verbs

100

To recreate real-world conditions in a controlled environment like a laboratory

Simulate

200

To restrict or suppress information, often for political purposes

Censor

300

Daily Double (and the crowd goes ***ooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhh***)

This synonym for "analyze" is six letters long and only has three different letters in it

400

Airline pilots, boat captains, astronauts, and liars all have to do this verb that means "make a controlled or planned movement"

Maneuver

500

It means "To remove impurities," and begins with the same letter as the verb in that definition

Refine

Adjectives

100

"Analyze" is the verb form of this adjective

Analytical

200

This adjective means stale, boring, or stuck in one place -- in fact, it even sounds very much like the word "Stay"

Staid

300

Something that's beyond reproach is this 14-letter adjective

Irreproachable

400

Thanks to Luisa Valenzuela, we know that the perfect censor has to be "alert, attentive, sharp," and this four-letter word that means perceptive or shrewdly astute

Keen

500

If you remember that the prefix "sub" means "beneath," you're halfway to getting this adjective, which, translated literally from its Latin origin, means "to turn from beneath"

Subversive

Nouns

100

"I wanted to learn more about maple syrup production, so I took a trip to Quebec" is an example of this type of statement

Cause-and-effect

200

The sentence "I love four types of cheese: Swiss, cheddar, gouda, and quijote" uses this punctuation mark to introduce its list

Colon

300

"You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink" is an example of this figure of speech

Idiom

400

The verb "craft" means "To make something with great care and ability" -- so it follows that a person who does such a thing is called this

Craftsman

500

If you're very enthusiastic about and excited for something, you have a lot of this word that begins with the alphabet's last letter

Zeal

Clever Like A Fox

100

The "big hammer" scene in Hidden Figures is an example of this clever literary term

Foreshadowing

200

In addition to the one in this category's name, "crafty" and "creative" are two more c-word synonyms for this

Cunning

300

You can't be clever without this four-letter synonym for "perceptive"

Keen

400

You'd need to be clever to be successfully this word, which describes someone who tries to subvert, upset, or overthrow

Subversive

500

Especially clever people never have just one reason for doing something: there are always these kinds of motives

Ulterior