Vocabulary from Sin and Syntax, Ch 1-8

Match the following words to their definitions:

• Empty or lacking contents or ideas

• palette

• The range or variety of tone

• vacuous

• placing things close together to compare

• juxtaposition

• old-fashioned or outdated

• antiquated

• An indirect word used for one considered

• euphemism

Match the following:

• A word to which the pronoun refers

• cadence

• a rhythmic sequence

• proxy

• standing in for someone or something

• missive

• the responsibility for a wrong

• antecedent

• a long, sometimes humorous letter

• culpability

Match the following

• to avoid or keep away from

• eschew

• a color that is bright and showy

• garish

• selfish or self-centered

• solipsistic

• the breaking down of something

• render

• to cause something to change state

• alchemy

Match the following

• being arrogant, self-important

• pedants

• a device to aid in learning a thing

• obfuscate

• old-fashioned

• antiquated

• people who are obsessed with rules

• pompositiy

• the act of making something unclear

• mnemonic

Match the following

• present, found everywhere

• vestiges

• expressing ideas in a pompous manner

• pontificating

• used in ordinary conversation

• ubiquitous

• traces of something that no longer exist

• colloquial

• who studies the history of languages

• philologist

Match the following

• That that takes gives good as it takes

• parasitic

• fluent or persuasive with words

• eloquent

• something that takes without giving

• lament

• something that's just okay

• symbiotic

• passionate grief

• mediocre

The ​ (a)   of adjectives can make writing powerful and showing.

• alchemy
• epithets
• proxy
• antecendents
• ediface

Mark isn't sure that he will get an A on his vocabulary quiz. The antecedent of ​ (a)   is​ (b)  

• he
• Mark

Martha's ​ (a)   essay left the teacher wondering what she was trying to say with all of those words.

• vacusous
• salvo
• tantamount
• garish
• suave
• antiquated