Vocab 17

Question 1

Exponent

Answer 1

A person who explains, interprets, or works to make something pooular.
He became the leading exponent of this genre in England.

Question 2

Novice

Answer 2

A beginner.

Although she is old, she is still a novice at tennis.

Question 3

Spry

Answer 3

Lively; moving with ease.

The spry gymnast easily did her routine to the other side of the balance beam.

Question 4

Tenuous

Answer 4

Flimsy; lacking substance

His argument on school was tenuous. His reasoning was that he was tired.

Question 5

Truism

Answer 5

A truth so well known it is not necessary to say it.

Yolo

Question 6

Synecdoche

Answer 6

Figure of speech where part represents the whole.

All hands on deck

Question 7

Syntax

Answer 7

How words/phrases are arranged to make an effective sentence
Little kids and people from foreign countries have their syntax wrong. They put their adjective after the word. I tennis play
The peculiar syntax of the author makes his work difficult to read.

Question 8

Pathetic fallacy

Answer 8

Literary term for a type of personification where human emotions are given to nature.
The sun is smiling

Question 9

Hyperbole

Answer 9

Exaggerated statements not meant to be taken literally.

Im starving

Question 10

Eminent

Answer 10

Above others in rank, worth or fame

Albert Einstein is an eminent scientist.