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Vocabulary Day # 4

Vocabulary Day # 4. Electronically!. Amiable. Part of speech: Adjective John’s amiable nature helps him make friends easily. Definition: Showing pleasant or good natured qualities. Stringent. Part of speech: adjective The stringent rules were difficult for the rowdy kids to follow.

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Vocabulary Day # 4

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  1. Vocabulary Day # 4 Electronically!

  2. Amiable • Part of speech: Adjective • John’s amiable nature helps him make friends easily. • Definition: Showing pleasant or good natured qualities

  3. Stringent • Part of speech: adjective • The stringent rules were difficult for the rowdy kids to follow. • Definition: Extremely strict or severe.

  4. Convoluted • Part of speech: adjective • Marcy’s convoluted explanation of cell reproduction left me even more confused. • Definition: Intricately involved. def. (Having many complexly arranged elements; elaborate)

  5. Austere • Part of speech: Adjective • Ms. Kenney’s austere nature made her students fearful. • Definition: Severe in manner or appearance

  6. Prolific • Part of Speech: Adjective • Don is a prolific author publishing a book a year. • Definition: Producing abundantly

  7. Alliteration • Generally the repetition of consonant sounds. • Weare going over FIVE types of alliteration • Alliteration • Consonance • Parallel • Hidden • Bracket

  8. Alliteration • Also beginning, head or initial. • Describes the alliteration of the initial consonants. • Jimmy Just Juked Jerry • Frankly, Finland Found Few Fig-newtons • We Will Win Wednesday, Word!

  9. Consonance • Final alliteration • Describes the alliteration at the end of the word. • The thicKcreeK let a ticK in the sinK. • The porTfoughT the liTyachTrighT.

  10. Parallel • Cross alliteration • Describes the interwoven consonants between two words. • The Big Time Bus Trip was Took Fourteen Total Fridays. • Big Time Took Fourteen • Bus Trip Total Fridays • The Chimney Sweepers Chewed Sausage. Yum!

  11. Hidden • Internal alliteration • Describes the consonants in the the middle of the words. • The ruNNer wore flaNNel • This tiCKet was thiCKer than most • My twiTTeracount is beTTer that Fabiano’s. Seriously.

  12. Bracket • Parenthesis • Describes the alliteration of the initial and final consonants. • The BoY was BusY • The BaLL hit the BuLL enticing him to FighT my FooT.

  13. Questions • What kind of alliteration is this: • Forty Feet Fought Fifty Fingers? • Angels Flew Around Felix? • Nomaruses Nair? • The twenty rented movies were good?

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