Wordwisunit5 Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
clergy | a group of people who have been formally appointed to religious service |
repository | a place where things are stored |
necessity | needed |
illuminated | decorated with gold |
paraphernalia | equipment |
preliminary | before the main step |
scribe | someone who copies written documents |
transcribe | to write or type a copy of |
gild | to cover with gold |
notable | worthy of notice |
connotation | what a word suggests in addition to its exact meaning |
appositive | an explanatory phrase |
notation | a short written note |
denote | to indicate |
ascribe | to regard something as belonging to a particular cause |
proposal | a plan put forward for consideration |
circumscribe | to surround or encircle |
expose | a story that makes wrongdoing known |
proscribe | to forbid |
annotation | a written note or comment |
misnomer | an incorrect name |
satire | a type of humor that makes fun of human faults and foolishness |
personify | to be a perfect example of something |
syntax | the way words are put together to make phrases and sentences |
hyperbole | exaggeration |
derive | to come from a source |
context | the part of a sentence that surrounds a word and helps make its meaning clear |
cliché | an overused expression |
metaphor | a figure of speech comparing 2 words or objects |
oxymoron | an expression combining words that contradict each other |
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nickD
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