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Vocabulary
Last Year's Vocabulary
Grammar
Grammar
100
Have someone who has been in a court room before answer this question: Can a defendant abrogate his testimony?
No. Abrogate is to take back in an official way, but if you recant under oath then the word is abjure.
100
Have the person who has traveled the farthest answer the following: Where in the world could you use a euro?
What is Europe.
100
Have the youngest member of your team answer the following: If you start using these words in your English essays people will think that you are some sort of vocabulary __________.
What is guru or virtuoso.
100
Have the student who is wearing the most blue answer the question: Correct the following sentence fragment: Although I thought about it.
What is "Although I thought about it, I didn't want to bowdlerize the author's work.
100
Have the person who spent the least time getting ready this morning answer the following: Once my sister and I brush my teeth I'm off to school.
What is "Once my sister and I brush OUR teeth I'm off to school."
200
Have someone who has been to a state that is east of Colorado answer the following: Define antebellum
Before war, most commonly used to define the period before the Civil War.
200
The senator's ________________ lasted all day and kept the bill from being voted on.
What is filibuster.
200
Have the oldest member of your team answer the following: A group of warriors who is fighting a government force are called:
What is guerrillas.
200
Have the most grammatically diffident person on your team answer the following: Although I try to make sense of English grammar the fact is that sometimes it does not make any sense.
What is a run on sentence. Although I try to make sense of English grammar, sometimes it does not make any sense. The comma offsets the introductory dependent clause.
200
Have the student who lives the farthest from school answer the following (add only one piece of punctuation): A lifetime of working in dreary jobs had enervated his very soul luckily we live in a country where you can have a mid-life career change.
What is "A lifetime of working in dreary jobs had enervated his very soul; luckily we live in a country where you can have a mid-life career change."
300
Have the team member who has most recently been to the Dr. answer the following: Doctors who do something ___________ to their patients, such as operating on the wrong knee, usually get sued.
What is deleterious.
300
Give one positive and one negative aspect of having a homogenous group. (i.e. school, class, town, football team, etc.)
What is 1) People who are the same can understand the challenges/accomplishments of their peers. 2) Diversity adds interest and we learn more from people who are different then we do from people who are just like us.
300
Have the most jovial member of your team answer the following: Finals just _________ the stress that I already feel from school.
What is accentuates.
300
Have someone who only speaks English answer the following question: By the time the nurse is done drawing blood I will of depleted my hemoglobin cells.
What is By the time the nurse is done drawing blood I will have depleted my hemoglobin cells. of = a preposition used to indicate position or material, etc. have = a verb that means to possess, to experience, to receive, or to hold. (I will have a piece of cake. By the time we leave I will have been awake for 24 hours straight.)
300
Have the person who's last meal was the most abstemious correct the following (three punctuation changes): "She was a bore" he said "but I liked her sister".
What is "She was a bore," he said, "but I liked her sister." commas before dialogue tags periods always go inside quotation marks
400
Have the funniest member of your team answer the following: Sometimes people think they are being funny, but their __________ behavior is actually more annoying than entertaining.
What is fatuous.
400
Have one member of your team tell about a recent epiphany they've had.
What is "I just realized that I need to study if I plan to pass this quiz next week."
400
Have the person with the largest family answer the following: When is the appropriate time to commemorate a family member?
This is usually done after they die by laying a plaque, planing a tree, etc. However, it can also be done at significant times during a person's life such as commemorating their life's work during a retirement party.
400
Have someone who speaks English and at least one other language answer the following question: The bellicose speech of that man was insulting and I'm not sticking around to hear any more of their impertinence.
What is "The bellicose speech of that man was insulting and I'm not sticking around to hear any more of his impertinence.
400
Have someone who does not have a boy/girlfriend answer the following question: She told him she couldn't dance with him just then but her auspicious smile encouraged him to ask again later.
What is "She told him she couldn't dance with him just then, but her auspicious smile encouraged him to ask again later. FANBOYS For, An, Nor, But, Or, YET, So independent clause = subject, verb and complete idea
500
Have the most feckless member of your team use both gauche and facetious in a sentence.
What is "I have no clue." JK - I hope that you did not take my facetious comment about you being feckless personally, I was only trying to lighten the mood so students didn't take the game so seriously.
500
Have the most churlish member of your team answer the following: The slaves were enfranchised by the emancipation proclamation. Provide at least one additional example of a group of people who were either enfranchised or sought/are seeking enfranchisement. (does not need to be in the U.S.)
What is Woman's Suffrage Movement, Dreamers, Puerto Rico, Arab Spring
500
Use wretched in three different sentences.
What is "Mrs. Wright didn't get enough sleep and she looks wretched today." "That wretched teacher Mrs. Wright is giving us a quiz next week. "I feel wretched and am heading home."
500
Have someone who is close to the mean height of your group answer the following: You may add punctuation and change ONE word: By gerrymandering the districts legislators and their political cronies have used redistricting to choose his voters before voters have had the opportunity to choose them.
By gerrymandering the districts, legislators and their political cronies have used redistricting to choose their voters, before voters have had the opportunity to choose them. legislators & cronies = plural = their By gerrymandering the districts = introductory dependent clause. before voters have had the opportunity to choose them = ending dependent clause.
500
Have the person with the greatest natural vocabulary and grammar acumen answer the following: Create a compound-complex sentence that uses at least two of the following vocabulary words: gamete, hemoglobin, gerrymander, evanescent, fiduciary, chromosome
What is The two gamete's were carrying the chromosomes which would eventually become Jenny; however, first they had to navigate their way through the reproductive system and come together, which is not an easy task considering their short life span.