Vocab Week 8 - Hosp/onym/host

Question 1

hospital

Answer 1

a place where sick or injured people are given care or treatment and
where babies are often born

Question 2

hospitable

Answer 2

generous and friendly to guests or visitors

Question 3

homonym

Answer 3

a word that is spelled and pronounced like another word but is different
in meaning
The word bear is a ____________; I couldn’t bear to see the bear suffer.

Question 4

synonym

Answer 4

a word that has the same or similar meaning as another word in the
same language
Detergent is a _____ for soap.

Question 5

anonymous

Answer 5

not named or identified; made or done by someone unknown

Question 6

antonym

Answer 6

a word with a meaning that is opposite to the meaning of another word
An __________ for dirty is clean.

Question 7

acronym

Answer 7

a name for something that is formed from the first letter of each of the
words in a title
NASA is an _________ for National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Question 8

pseudonym

Answer 8

a name a person, such as a writer, uses instead of his or her real name
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, a famous American author, wrote his books under
the ___________ Mark Twain

Question 9

hostile

Answer 9

not friendly; having or showing unfriendly feelings; harsh or unpleasant

Question 10

hostage

Answer 10

• a person who is captured by someone who demands that certain things
  be done before the captured person is freed