Vocab Unit 1 Jeopardy Eng 4 Definitions 1

Vocab Unit 1 Jeopardy Eng 4

Definitions 1 Part of speech? Definitions 2 Part of speech? Complete the Sentence 100 100 100 200 200 200 300 300 300 400 400 400 500 500 500

Definitions 1 100 Points Something added to something else as helpful or useful but not essential

Definitions 1 100 Points adjunct

Definitions 1 200 Points Irreverently mocking

Definitions 1 200 Points ribald

Definitions 1 300 Points To howl or screech like a cat

Definitions 1 300 Points caterwaul

Definitions 1 400 Points Offensive or disgusting

Definitions 1 400 Points noisome

Definitions 1 500 Points Lacking in wholesome vigor or energy

Definitions 1 500 Points effete

Part of Speech 100 Points What part(s) of speech is. . . Caterwaul ?

Part of Speech 100 Points verb & noun

Part of speech 200 Points What part of speech is… Oblivious ?

Part of Speech 200 Points Adjective

Part of Speech 300 Points What part of speech is… supine ?

Part of Speech 300 Points Adjective

Part of Speech 400 Points What part of speech is… effete ?

Part of Speech 400 Points Adjective

Part of Speech 500 Points What part(s) of speech is… adjunct?

Part of Speech 500 Points Noun & adjective

Definitions 2 100 Points A base coward

Definitions 2 100 Points poltroon

Definitions 2 200 Points A religious service or rite

Definitions 2 200 Points liturgy

Definitions 2 300 Points A patch of low, soft, wet ground

Definitions 2 300 Points morass

Definitions 400 Points Good- humored ridicule

Definitions 2 400 Points raillery

Definitions 2 500 Points absurd

Definition 2 500 Points chimerical

Part of Speech 100 Points What part of speech is. . . Hidebound ?

Part of Speech 100 Points adjective

Part of Speech 200 Points What part of speech is… Proselyte ?

Part of Speech 200 Points noun

Part of Speech 300 Points What part of speech is… liturgy?

Part of Speech 300 Points noun

Part of Speech 400 Points What part of speech is… morass ?

Part of Speech 400 Points noun

Part of Speech 500 Points What part of speech is. . . Raillery ?

Part of Speech 500 Points noun

Complete Sentence 100 Points I truly don’t think that ____ stories have any place in such a solemn dinner speech, ” she observed. (mocking; vulgar; indecent language)

Completing the Sentence 100 Points ribald

Complete Sentence 200 Points While the candidate seemed pleasant enough, he surrounded himself with ______ schemers. (looking for opposite behavior from the candidate)

Complete Sentence 200 Points noisome

Complete Sentence 300 Points Always the _____ of populist causes, by age thirty she had made her reputation as a leading rabble-rouser. (she is a ringleader)

Complete Sentence 300 Points bellwether

Complete Sentence 400 Points While his loss of the election was a____ even to his supporters, the candidate refused to concede until the last vote was counted. (candidate won’t consider it an accomplished fact until last vote is counted)

Complete Sentence 400 Points Fait accompli

Complete Sentence 500 Points The _______ creatures created by modern fantasy writers often have their pictorial origins of Hieronymus Bosch and other medieval painters of the grotesque. (need an adjective!)

Complete Sentence 500 Points chimerical

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