English 10th grade final

melancholy

melancholy

a feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause.

persecution

hostility and ill-treatment, especially on the basis of ethnicity, religion, or sexual orientation or political beliefs.

avarice

extreme greed for wealth or material gain.

usurer

a person who lends money at unreasonably high rates of interest.

speculating

invest in stocks, property, or other ventures in the hope of gain but with the risk of loss.

propitious

giving or indicating a good chance of success; favorable.

ostentation

pretentious and vulgar display, especially of wealth and luxury, intended to impress or attract notice.

censurer

to formally rebuke; to censure. to censor.

antecedent

the noun that the pronoun represent

what should the pronoun and antecedent agree in?

number and gender

singular personal pronouns

I, you, me, he, she ,it, him, her, my, mine, your, yours, his, hers

plural personal pronouns

we, you, they, us, them, our, ours, your, yours, their, theirs

Indefinite pronouns

refer to a person or thing whose exact identity is unknown

singular indefinite pronouns

anybody, anyone, anything, each, either, everybody, everyone, everything, neither, nobody, no one, nothing, one, somebody, someone, something

plural indefinite pronouns

both, few, many, several

singular or plural indefinite pronouns

all, any, more, most, none, some

compound antecedent

two or more antecedents joined by and or or

what are modifiers?

adjetives, adverbs, phrases

modifier

a word or word group that makes the meaning of another word or word group more specific

adjective

a word that makes the meaning of a noun or pronoun more specific it tells what kind, which one or how many

articles

a, an, the

indefinite articles

they refer to any member of a group (a, and)

definite articles

refers to someone or something in particular (the)

demonstrative adjectives

adjectives that tell which one or which ones (this, that, these, those)

adverb

word that makes the meaning of a verb, adjective, of another adverb

adjective phrase

follows the noun or pronoun that it modifies (What kind? Which one? How many? and How much?)

adverb phrase.

modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb (when, where, why, how, or to what extent.)