| Term | Definition |
|---|
| noun | names a person, place, thing, or idea |
| adjective | discribes or modifys a noun or a pronoun |
| descriptive | tells more about the noun |
| limiting | using a # or an artical to discribe something |
| adverb | used to discribe or modify a verb, adj, or another adverb (ushually end in "ly") |
| verb | an action in a sentance |
| pronouns | used in a place of a noun to aviod repetition of sounds |
| personal | ex: I, you, me |
| demonstrative | ex: this, that, those, these |
| interrogative | ex: what |
| realative | ex: who, which, what, that |
| indefinate | ex: one, any, some |
| reflexive | ex: myself, yourself, herself, himself |
| numerical | ex: first, third, next |
| reciprotal | ex: one another, each other |
| adj pro | some, another |
| conjunction | a connecting word that joins the subject to the object |
| prep | a word that has a position before a noun or a pronoun |
| interjection | a word used to express a sudden or strong feeling |
| comparative form | more/er |
| superlative form | most/est |
| idiom | words used in a way that change there meaning |
| simile | a comparision using "like" or "as" |
| metephor | a comparision not using "like" or "as" |
| onomonotopia | a sound in word form |
| hyperbole | an extream exaderation |
| alliteration | a repeating of begining sounds |
| oxymoron | 2 words of opposite meanings put together to create a different meaning |
| personification | a non human object given a human characteristic |
| gloat | syn; relish, revel in, croud over anty; regret, bemoan, mourn, feel chagrined |
| famished | syn; hungry, starving, ravenouse anty; well fed, full, satisfied, saitated |
| encompass | syn; surround, envelp, comprise anty; leave out, omit, exclude |
| diversity | syn; dissimmilarity anty; similarity, sameness, unformity |
| hypocrite | syn; phony, fraud, charlation |
| ovation | syn; cheers, bravos, hurrays anty; boos, jeers |
| synopsis | syn; outline, digest, abstract |
| reimburse | syn; repay, refund, compensate |
| quash | syn; supress anty; start, kindle, ignite, encourage |
| vow | syn; a word of honor |
| jovial | syn; jolly, cheerful, festive anty; gloomy, morose, melancholy, cheerless |
| deluge | syn; swamp, inundate anty; trickle, dribble |
| subsequent | syn; following, later, next, succeeding, ensuing anty; previouse, prior, preceding |
| keepsake | syn; reminder, memento |
| amble | syn; saunter, ramble anty; gallop, dash, sprint, run, race, rush |
| forsake | syn; desert, disown anty; keep, hold onto, stand by |
| strident | syn; peircing, grating anty; mellow, soothing, musical, honeyed |
| smug | syn; concieted, complacent anty; discontented, disgruntled |
| affirm | syn; accert, radify anty; deny, disavow, reject, veto, disallow |
| inevitable | syn; inascapable, fated anty; aviodable, escapable, preventable |
| scant | syn;bare, skimpy, meager anty; exssesive, profuse, plentiful |
| topple | syn; unset, upset, tumble anty; remain, upright, establesh, set up |
| boistrus | syn; loud, unruly, disorderly anty; quiet, calm, peaceful, well behaved, |
| maze | syn; labrynth, puzzle, tangle |
| tribute | syn; priase, honor, homage, recignition, commendation, glorification, tax, money, levy anty; blame, criticizum, reproach |
| perishable | syn; short-lived, fleeting anty; longlasting, durable, undying |
| variable | syn;flucating, shifting, inconstant anty;constant, unchanging, steady |
| pry | syn; snoop, medel |
| valiant | syn; brave, bold, galliant, heroic, couragouse anty; timid, coward, chicken |
| intensive | syn; throughgoing, heightend, exhausted anty; relaxed, easygoing, layedback |
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