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Semester 1 Review
Language Arts Final Review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| to humiliate | mortify |
| small newspaper with sensational news | tabloid |
| gracious;friendly;courteous | cordial |
| related to the heart | cardiac |
| gloomy | joyless |
| one with great skill in a particular area | technician |
| a selected passage | excerpt |
| inclined to argue | quarrelsome |
| someone who walks | pedestrian |
| talkative | loquacious |
| uncomplicated | simplistic |
| to change to be suitable | adapt |
| a sample | speciman |
| without close attention | rapture |
| lack of energy | lassitude |
| belittling | derogatory |
| to soak thoroughly | saturate |
| extreme exaggeration | hyperbole |
| insanity | lunacy |
| not movable | immobile |
| pertaining to facts rather than feelings | objective |
| very emotional | hysterical |
| temporarily stray from main topic | digress |
| happening after someone's death | posthumous |
| to lose water | dehydrate |
| the search to find something | quest |
| affecting the past | retroactive |
| deserving pity | pitiful |
| change for the better | periphery |
| extreme guilt | remorse |
| excessively overweight | corpulent |
| state of being free of errors | accuracy |
| a small harbor | marina |
| able to be seen | visual |
| a germ | microbe |
| easy to manage | docile |
| existing on earth | terrestrial |
| the outer boundary | perimeter |
| fancy writing | calligraphy |
| having the ability to move | portable |
| an aristocrat of high-rank | patrician |
| a charge or accusation of a crime | indictment |
| like a snake | serpentine |
| inborn | innate |
| an outlook or frame of mind | perspective |
| to walk around | perambulate |
| like a cruel, insensitive person | brutish |
| having fluent, powerful speech | eloquent |
| the state of hanging | suspension |
| a legal body | organization |