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GG vocabolary
Pitch Project
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Isinglass | An opaque substance made from the swim bladder of fish |
| Venerable | Accorded a great deal of respect, especially because of age,wisdom or character |
| Dramatic | sudden or striking |
| Entrails | Internal organs |
| Tarnished | Having lost it's shine |
| Sullen | bad tempered,sulking ; gloomy |
| Free verse | poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme |
| Irony | a contrast between what is generally expected and what has actually happened |
| Personification | The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something non-human, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form |
| Objectification | the acting of treating someone or something to the status of a mere object r less than Human |
| Affix | an additional element placed at the beginning or end of a root,stem,or word, to modify it's meaning |
| Prefix | An element placed at the beginning of a word to adjust or qualify it's meaning |
| Suffix | A letter or a group of letters attached to the end of a word to form a new word or to change the grammatical (parts of speech) of the word |
| Root | A word or word element from which other words grow, usually through the addition if affixes. The root contains the central meaning of the word |