Social learning has to do with the people around you. That is, you learn from and about others by watching and interacting with them. 

(Noun) It is defined as small, trivial and unimportant detail.

(Adjective) made in an intricate shape or decorated with complex patterns.

(Noun) An apparition or double of a living person.

A piece of land or section of fortification that juts out to form an angle.

(Verb) 

Release from a restraining or inhibiting force.

(Adjective) 

Difficult to interpret or understand; mysterious.

An envoy is a messenger or representative, especially one on a diplomatic mission.

Infamous is the antonym of notorious.

A small monastery or nunnery that is governed by a prior or prioress.

The direct definition of the word that you find in the dictionary. 

This is the feeling the word invokes (positive/negative/neutral), the emotional suggestions of a word that is not literal (implied meaning). 

Using words with different connotations can change the meaning of a sentence and the tone, which means the attitude of the speaker.

Writers who wish to create a more emotional response in their readers will choose words with a stronger denotation.

The denotative meaning of "hot" means extremely attractive.

The denotative meaning of "dead" means an unusually quiet setting

The connotative meaning of "shark" meaning "highly skilled"

Neutral: frugal

Positive: economical

Negative: cheap

neutral: confident

positive: arrogant

negative: proud

neutral: driven

positive: assertive

negative: pushy

Denotation is a word's ____________.

The word scrawny, as in "Jason appeared scrawny," has a _________ connotation.

Referring to someone's house as a "shack" would have a __________ connotation.

The teacher was mildly intimated by Merdine's bossy behavior. If you change the word bossy to assertive, the word now has a ____ connotation.

Choose the word with the positive connotation. skinny--slender

Which connotation is MORE positive? ________ people rode on the roller coaster.

Colons and semicolons help readers understand how your ideas relate to each other.

Use a colon to connect two complete thoughts that are closely related.

The semicolon introduces a new, related piece of information. Notice that the second thought always starts with an uppercase letter.

American literature begins with the orally transmitted myths, legends, tales and lyrics of british cultures.

The Mexican tribes revered the divine Quetzalcoatl, a god of the Toltecs and Aztecs.

This black American poet is remembered for his religious poems as well as for "An Address to the Negroes of the State of New York (1787)"

He epitomizes the spirit of southern colonial gentry. He is best known for his lively "History of the Dividing Line"

He was considered as the antithesis of John Woolman.

An English-born son of a tailor, he was banished from Massachusetts in the middle of New England's ferocious winter in 1635.

His most ambitious work was the "Magnalia Christi Americana (Ecclesiastical History of New England)

His best-known work was "The Day of Doom (1662)".

The first published book of poems by an American was also the first American book to be published by a woman — Anne Bradstreet.

Bradford recorded the first document of colonial self-governance in the English New World, the “Mayflower Compact,”drawn up while the Pilgrims were still on board ship.

Very smart - Intellectual

Very stupid - ?

Very rude - Insolent

Very polite - Courteous

For each of the following, choose the sentence with the correct punctuation.

It is possible for a word to have both positive and negative connotations, depending on how it is used.

The student committed a grave offense. The meaning of the underlined word is...?

Helen was guarded about her private life. What is the meaning of the underlined word?

The connotative meaning of a word is based on:

We are Americans __we should be able to speak and write in any way we choose.

Stevey Bradford was elected governor of Plymouth in the Massachusetts Bay Colony shortly after the Separatists landed.

Bartholemew de las Casas is the richest sourceof information about the early contact betweenAmerican Indians and Europeans.

The first known and sustained contact between the Americas and the rest of the world, however, began with the famous voyage of anItalian explorer, Christopher Columbus, funded by the Spanish rulers Raymund and Emma.