Unit 5: Teaching vocabulary Flashcards
What does a convention refer to?
A convention refers to a common practise or agreement that people typically follow.
What’s a determiner?
A determiner is a word that comes before a noun and helps specify what the noun refers to, such as “the” or “this”.
What’s an adverb?
An adverb is a word that describes how, when, where or to what extent a verb or adjective is performed, like “quickly” or “very”.
What’s an utterance?
An utterance is a spoken or written statement.
How is whereas used?
Whereas is used to compare two different pieces of information.
What’s a connotation?
A connotation is the extra meaning that a word carries beyond its literal definition, often based on cultural or personal associations, like “home” having positive connotations of comfort and security.
What does it mean to stress something?
To stress something means to emphasise or give special importance to something when talking about it.
What does denotation refer to?
Denotation refers to the precise and primary meaning of a word, without any emotional or cultural associations, such as the word “rose” denoting a type of flowering plant.
What does flowering refer to?
Flowering refers to the process in which a plant produces and opens its flowers, as a part of its reproductive cycle.
What does metaphorical mean?
Metaphorical means describing something in a non-literal way, using a figure of speech to symbolise a concept, like saying “time is money”.
What does to derive from mean?
To derive from means to originate from a specific source, as in the word “ballet” derives from the French language.
What’s a homonym?
A homonym is a word that sounds the same as another word but has a different meaning, like “bark” (the sound a dog makes) and “bark” (the outer covering of a tree).
What’s an infinitive?
An infinitive is the simplest form of a verb, usually beginning with “to”, e.g. “to swim”.
What does impertinence mean?
Impertinence means rudeness in a conversation or behaviour towards others.
What’s an antonym?
An antonym is a word that means the opposite of another word, such as “hot” being the antonym of “cold”.
What’s a hyponym?
A hyponym is a specific word that fits within a more general word. For example, “rose” is a hyponym of the general term “flower”.
What’s a co-hyponym?
A co-hyponym is a word that belongs to the same category as another word, for instance, “rose” and “tulip” are co-hyponyms because they’re both specific types of flowers.
What is a coordinate?
A coordinate is a word that has equal grammatical weight to another word, often linked by a coordinating conjunction like “and” or “but”.
What’s a superordinate?
A superordinate is a word that represents a broad category made up of specific words, like “fruit” being a superordinate of “apple” and “banana”.
What does it mean to irrigate?
To irrigate means to artificially supply water to land or crops to help them grow.
What’s a morpheme?
A morpheme is the smallest unit of a word that carries meaning, like the word “unhappiness” having three morphemes: “un-“ meaning not, “-happy” meaning content, and “-ness” indicating a state.
What does substandard refer to?
Substandard refers to something that’s of lower quality or performance than it should be.
What does it mean to refine?
To refine means to improve something by making small precise adjustments or by removing impurities.
What does to hyphenate mean?
To hyphenate means to connect parts of a word with a hyphen (-), creating a compound word such as “mother-in-law”.
