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Vocab 1-3 Grammar 1
Vocab/Grammar Quiz AP Language and Composition
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| adorn | decorate |
| arabesque | elaborate design |
| coruscate | sparkle and glitter |
| filigree | intricately ornamented |
| fugacious | passing away quickly |
| modest | free from showiness |
| palpable | easily perceived or obvious |
| prescriptive | suited to one's purpose |
| sacrosanct | regarded as sacred and inviolable |
| specter | haunting images |
| apologist | one who defends or justifies something |
| axiomatic | universally recognized as true |
| corroborate | supported with other evidence |
| demur | voice opposition |
| dissuade | deter someone by persuasion |
| extol | praise highly |
| fallacy | false notion |
| obsequious | overly attentive |
| postulate | assumed as true |
| ruminate | reflected |
| abrogate | when you want to explain why certain rules no longer apply |
| arrogate | a playground bully or tyrannical ruler may be accused of doing this (take or claim w/ out justification) |
| interrogate | a police officer might do this to a suspect |
| prerogative | when a governor pardons a convicted criminal they are exercising this |
| presage | people who can do this are thought to have special powers or a sixth sense |
| prorogue | word might be used to describe how the date of a court hearing was changed |
| sagacious | someone extremely wise and would go to for advice |
| subrogate | use this word to explain how two things are interchangeable |
| surrogate | you send one of these if you cannot attend something yourself |
| derogatory | people may be offended by someone making these remarks |
| collective noun | names a group |
| reflexive pronoun | refers to subject of a sentence as complement or object of a preposition (Kimiko wrote a note to herself) |
| intensive pronoun | emphasizes its antecedent (Leonora herself said hi.) |
| demonstrative pronoun | points out a specific person place or thing (This, these, that, those) |
| relative pronoun | introduces an adjective clause (The house THAT, the women WHO) |
| indefinite pronoun | a person place or thing may or may not be specifically named (all, each other, anyone, both, something, someone) |
| Can some pronouns be used as adjectives? | Yes (this girl, more paper, each apple) |
| adjective | modifies a noun or pronoun |
| articles | a, an, the |
| indefinite articles | refer to any member of a general group (a, an) |
| definite article | refers to someone or something in particular (the) |
| Can some words be used as nouns OR adjectives? | Yes (TUNA salad) |
| proper adjective | adjective formed from a proper noun |
| verb | expresses a state of being |
| action verb | expresses physical or mental activity |
| linking verb | connects the subject to a word or word group in the predicate that identifies or describes the subject >> called a subject complement The desert LOOKS delicious. sub comp. delicious describes the subject desert (linking verb is looks) |
| verb phrase | has one main verb and one or more helping verb John WILL BE ARRIVING at 3. (wil be are helping and arriving is main) |
| modal verb | a helping verb that is joined with a main verb to express an attitude such as necessity or possibility |
| transitive verbs | has an object (a word that tells who or what receives the action) Nikki Giovanni WRITES poetry. (object poetry receives action writes) |
| intransitive verbs | does not have an object (The gorilla SMILED at its baby) |
| adverb | modifies a verb, adjective, or another adverb ie. She performed EARLIER The players are EXCEPTIONALLY skillful |
| the preposition | shows the relationship of a noun or pronoun (above, across, beneath) |
| infinitives | verb mostly preceded by "to" (to remember, to read) |
| conjunction | joins words or word groups |
| coordinating conjunction | We found a bat AND a glove. |
| correlative conjunctions | pairs of conjunctions that join words or word groups that are used in the same way both... and either.... or not only.... but |
| subordinating conjunctions | begins a subordinate clause and connects it to an independent clause We arrived late BECAUSE our train was delayed. |
| interjection | expresses emotion and has no grammatical relation to the rest of the sentence (Ouch!, oops, well, wow) |
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