Vocab 4

Which word means "a word book describing language with definitions; a dictionary"?

• thesaurus

• lexicon

• encyclopedia

• glossary

Which word means "a type of figurative language in which one term is substituted for another term with which it is closely associated"?

• simile

• metonymy

• metaphor

• hyperbole

Which word means "an apparent contradiction of terms"?

• paradox

• oxymoron

• hyperbole

• simile

Which word means "statement of high praise"?

• panegyric

• criticism

• insult

• mockery

Which word means "an example or model"?

• paradigm

• anomaly

• exception

• outlier

Which word means "a grammar construction in which two identical syntactic constructions are used"?

• parallelism

• metaphor

• irony

• hyperbole

Which word means "long, complex, grammatically correct sentence"?

• simple sentence

• compound sentence

• period

• fragment

Which word means "causing great harm"?

• beneficial

• pernicious

• helpful

• harmless

Which word means "an unusual, observable event"?

• phenomenon

• routine

• habit

• custom

Which word means "presenting favorable circumstances; auspicious"?

• propitious

• adverse

• unlucky

• unfortunate