VOCAB #1

Question 1

Connotation

Answer 1

(noun) Something suggested by a word or thing
The suggesting of a meaning by a word apart from the thing it explicitly names or describes
The significance of something
An essential property or group of properties of a thing named by a term in logic

Question 2

Denotation

Answer 2

(noun)The act or process of denoting
the literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests
the action or process of indicating or referring to something by means of a word, symbol, etc
the object or concept to which a term refers, or the set of objects of which a predicate is true

Question 3

Epitomize

Answer 3

(noun)To serve as the typical or ideal example of
To make or give an epitome of

Question 4

Indignant

Answer 4

(adj)Feeling or showing anger because of something unjust or unworthy: filled with or marked by indignation

Question 5

Enumerate

Answer 5

(verb)To ascertain the number of: COUNT
To specify one after another: LIST

Question 6

Pedantic

Answer 6

(adj)Of, relating to, or being pedantic
Narrowly, stodgily, and often ostentatiously learned
unimaginative, dull

Question 7

Antithesis

Answer 7

(noun)The direct opposite
-The rhetorical contrast of ideas by means of parallel arrangements of words, clauses, or sentences (opposition, contrast)
-The second of two opposing words, clauses, or sentences that are being rhetorically contrasted
The second stage of a dialectical process

Question 8

Impede

Answer 8

(verb)To interfere with or slow the progress of