Academic Vocab

Question 1

cite

Answer 1

to mention in support, proof, or confirmation

Question 2

context

Answer 2

circumstances in an event

Question 3

figurative language

Answer 3

figures of speech

Question 4

dialouge

Answer 4

conversation between two or more people

Question 5

tone

Answer 5

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

Question 6

paraphrase

Answer 6

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

Question 7

elaborate

Answer 7

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

Question 8

central idea

Answer 8

The central idea is the central, unifying element of the story, which ties together all of the other elements of fiction used by the author to tell the story. The central idea can be best described as the dominant impression or the universal, generic truth found in the story.

Question 9

judgment

Answer 9

an act or instance of judging.

Question 10

claim

Answer 10

to require as due or fitting:

Question 11

thesis

Answer 11

1.
a proposition stated or put forward for consideration, especially one to be discussed and proved or to be maintained against objections:
He vigorously defended his thesis on the causes of war.

Question 12

convey

Answer 12

Law. to transfer; pass the title to.

Question 13

pronoun

Answer 13

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 14

connotation

Answer 14

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.”.
the act of connoting; the suggesting of an additional meaning for a word or expression, apart from its explicit meaning.

Question 15

denotation

Answer 15

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 16

precise

Answer 16

definitely or strictly stated, defined, or fixed:

Question 17

verb

Answer 17

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 18

adverb

Answer 18

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).
See also sentence adverb.

Question 19

significant

Answer 19

important; of consequence.