Strunk/Word Usage
Terms
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- Bills are_________
- passed
- Laws are _________
- enacted
- Adverse means:
- unfavorable
- Averse means:
- opposed
- affect is:
- a verb meaning to influence or to produce change
- effect means:
- as a noun it is a result
- _______ means to add to or to increase
- aggravate
- ________ means to annoy
- irritate
- Aid means
- to help
- Aide means
- an assistant
- The driver eluded the police.
- correct
- During the conversasion she alluded to her new relationship.
- correct
- During our conversation she eluded to her new relationship.
- wrong alluded
- Allusion means:
- an indirect reference
- Illusion means :
- an unreal or false impression
- Avocation means
- hobby, pleasure
- Vocation means
- business, profession, occupation
- ________ implies worry or concern and is followed by about
- anxious
- ________ means in anticipation or desire and is followed by to
- eager
- ___ means in addition to or other than
- besideS
- ______ means by the side of or next to
- beside
- A fair is also called a _____
- bazaar
- Blond is used in reference to:
- as a noun for males and as an adj.
- Blonde is used in reference to:
- females when used as a noun
- canon means
- a law
- cannon means
- a gun
- canvas means
- a cloth
- canvass means
- to seek out to sift
- _________ means yo single out or to bring forward
- cite
- _ means a location
- site
- collide is only used when .....
- both objects are in motion
- Compliment means
- to admire or praise some one
- Complement means
- full quantity, number or to add to
- _______ means worthy of contempt, despicable
- contemptible
- _________ means expressing conyempt or disdain
- contemptuous
- ________means having good qualities
- decent
- _______ means ancestry, drop, fall
- descent
- _______means to disagree
- dissent
- dual means
- two
- duel means
- a contest b/t two people
- elicit means
- seek
- illicit means
- illegal
- eminent means
- great, famous
- imminent means
- to occur shortly, approaching
- ______ refers to bulk quantity
- less
- ______ refers to individual items and can be counted
- fewer
- Flier is a term for
- an aviator or a handbill
- Flyer is the name for
- some trains and buses
- Hurdle means
- barrier, to leap over
- Hurtle means
- to rush suddenly,fling
- The incidence of rabies was greater in 2005 than in 1995.
- correct
- The two incidence led to his dismissal.
- wring use incidents
- to assume, draw from is to
- infer
- to suggest, signify is to
- imply
- Peddle is
- selling
- pedal means
- like on a bycycle
- reticent means
- unwilling to speak
- stationary means
- not moving
- stationery means
- writing paper
- to demolsih or destroy something is to
- do away with completely