Academic Vocab

Question 1

cite

Answer 1

proof

Question 2

context

Answer 2

the set of circumstances or facts that surround a particular event, situation, etc.

Question 3

relevant

Answer 3

nis

Question 4

figurative language

Answer 4

language that contains or uses figures of speech, especially metaphors.

Question 5

dialogue

Answer 5

an exchange of ideas or opinions on a particular issue, especially a political or religious issue, with a view to reaching an amicable agreement or settlement.

Question 6

tone

Answer 6

in written composition, is an attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience.

Question 7

mood

Answer 7

The mood of the music was almost funereal.

Question 8

paraphrase

Answer 8

a restatement of a text or passage giving the meaning in another form, as for clearness; rewording.

Question 9

elaborate

Answer 9

worked out with great care and nicety of detail; executed with great minuteness:

Question 10

theme

Answer 10

a subject of discourse, discussion, meditation, or composition; topic:
The need for world peace was the theme of the meeting.

Question 11

idea

Answer 11

any conception existing in the mind as a result of mental understanding, awareness, or activity.

Question 12

judgement

Answer 12

an act or instance of judging.

Question 13

claim

Answer 13

to demand by or as by virtue of a right; demand as a right or as due:
to claim an estate by inheritance.

Question 14

convey

Answer 14

to carry, bring, or take from one place to another; transport; bear.

Question 15

pronoun

Answer 15

any member of a small class of words found in many languages that are used as replacements or substitutes for nouns and noun phrases, and that have very general reference, as I, you, he, this, who, what. Pronouns are sometimes formally distinguished from nouns, as in English by the existence of special objective forms, as him for he or me for I, and by nonoccurrence with an article or adjective.

Question 16

connotation

Answer 16

the associated or secondary meaning of a word or expression in addition to its explicit or primary meaning: A possible connotation of “home” is “a place of warmth, comfort, and affection.”.

Question 17

denotation

Answer 17

the explicit or direct meaning or set of meanings of a word or expression, as distinguished from the ideas or meanings associated with it or suggested by it; the association or set of associations that a word usually elicits for most speakers of a language, as distinguished from those elicited for any individual speaker because of personal experience.

Question 18

precise

Answer 18

definitely or strictly stated, defined, or fixed:

precise directions.

Question 19

verb

Answer 19

any member of a class of words that function as the main elements of predicates, that typically express action, state, or a relation between two things, and that may be inflected for tense, aspect, voice, mood, and to show agreement with their subject or object.

Question 20

adverb

Answer 20

any member of a class of words that function as modifiers of verbs or clauses, and in some languages, as Latin and English, as modifiers of adjectives, other adverbs, or adverbial phrases, as very in very nice, much in much more impressive, and tomorrow in She’ll write to you tomorrow. They relate to what they modify by indicating place (I promise to be there), time (Do your homework now!), manner (She sings beautifully), circumstance (He accidentally dropped the glass when the bell rang), degree (I’m very happy to see you), or cause (I draw, although badly).

Question 21

significant

Answer 21

important; of consequence.