Vocab 1

Question 1

Insatiable

Answer 1

So great as to not be satisfied

Question 2

Banal

Answer 2

Hackneyed, commonplace

Question 3

Belabor

Answer 3

To work on excessively

Question 4

Emulate

Answer 4

To imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing

Question 5

Substantiate

Answer 5

To prove or establish with evidence

Question 6

Pedantic

Answer 6

Overly concerned with minute details or formalisms

Question 7

Coherent

Answer 7

Holding together, making a logical whole

Question 8

Invidious

Answer 8

Hateful offensive

Question 9

Verbiage

Answer 9

Language that is too wordy or inflated in proportion to the content or sense

Question 10

Germane

Answer 10

Relevant, appropriate

Question 11

Oxymoron

Answer 11

A figure of speech in which two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect

Question 12

Antithesis

Answer 12

Opposition or contrast of ideas or words in a balanced or parallel construction

Question 13

Paradox

Answer 13

A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd, but in reality, expresses a possible truth

Question 14

Allusion

Answer 14

Brief reference to a person, event, or place or work of art

Question 15

Anaphora

Answer 15

Repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines

Question 16

Anecdote

Answer 16

A short story or short account of

Question 17

Apostrophe

Answer 17

A rhetorical term for breaking off discourse to address some absent person or thing

Question 18

Colloquial

Answer 18

Used in ordinary or familiar conversation, not formal or literary

Question 19

Aphorisms

Answer 19

Statements that are generally true about life