academic vocab

Question 1

cite

Answer 1

to mention in support, proof, or confirmation

Question 2

relevant

Answer 2

closely connected or appropriate to what is being done or considered.

Question 3

figurative language

Answer 3

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

Question 4

tone

Answer 4

style, distinction, or elegance.

Question 5

mood

Answer 5

a state or quality of feeling at a particular time:

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

dialogue

Answer 8

conversation between two or more persons.

Question 9

theme

Answer 9

a unifying or dominant idea, motif, etc., as in a work of art.

Question 10

judgement

Answer 10

the ability to make considered decisions or come to sensible conclusions.
“an error of judgment”

Question 11

claim

Answer 11

to demand by or as by virtue of a right; demand as a right or as due:

Question 12

thesis

Answer 12

1.

a statement or theory that is put forward as a premise to be maintained or proved.

Question 13

convey

Answer 13

to communicate; impart; make known:

to convey a wish.

Question 14

pronoun

Answer 14

any member of a small class of words found in many languages that are used as replacements or substitutes for nouns and noun phrases,

Question 15

connotation

Answer 15

something suggested or implied by a word or thing, rather than being explicitly named or described:

Question 16

denotation

Answer 16

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

Question 17

precise

Answer 17

definitely or strictly stated, defined, or fixed:

Question 18

verb

Answer 18

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 19

adverb

Answer 19

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

Question 20

significant

Answer 20

important