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10th Grade
06/05/2011

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Define: Noun
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person, place, thing, or idea
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Proper Noun
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Tom
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Abstract Noun
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Life
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Compound Noun
Definition
firemen
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Concrete Noun
Definition
Tom
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Collective noun
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army
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Define Pronouns
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words used in place of nouns
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Personal Pronouns
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I me you us
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Possessive Pronoun
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mine my his yours
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difference between reflexive and intensive pronouns?
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-self
reflexive: my
intensive: him/her
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demonstrative pronoun
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these that those
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interrogative pronoun
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interrogative = question; who, what, when, where..
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indefinite pronoun
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another, both, any
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relative pronoun
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whose whom that which
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define verb
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action words
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transitive/ intransitive
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object/no object
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linking verbs
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is, are, seems/ connect subject and verb
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action verb
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OUCH!
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Auxiliary verb
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form the tense, mood, voice, or condition of the verb it combines with/should, could, may, might
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verb phrase
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HAS BEEN WORKING.
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Define: Adjective
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modify nouns or pronouns
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positive degree adjective
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basic form.. large, wise, noble
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comparative degree adjective
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-er form; harder
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superlative degree adjective
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-est; biggest
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definite article adjective
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a, an, the
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proper adjective
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Johnny's
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Define: Adverbs
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modifies verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs
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adverb of time, place, manner, degree
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answers where, when, how, and what extent
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negative adverb
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seldom, hardly
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Define: Prepositions and prepositional phrases
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indicate locations, like verb phrase in over on between
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conjunctions
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joins ideas
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correlative conjunction
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not only, but also
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coordinating
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an, or
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subordinating conjunction
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as, though, however; dependent
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interjections
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express strong feeling
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eneke-nti-oba
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bird
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ilo
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event
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nna ayi
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our father
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ochu
Definition
murder
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agadi-nwayi
Definition
old women
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nza
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small bird
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chi
Definition
personal god
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uli
Definition
a dye women use to draw tattos
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iyi-uwa
Definition
a special kind of stone which forms the link between an ogbanje and the spirit world. Only if the iyi-uwa were discovered and destroyed would the child not die.
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ogbanje
Definition
a changeling; a child who repeatedly dies and returns to its mother to be reborn, it is almost impossible to bring up any ogbanje child without it dying, unless its iyi-uwa is ifrst found and destroyed
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eflulefu
Definition
worthless man
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kotma
Definition
court messenger; the world is not ob Ibo origin but is a corruption of "court messenger"
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agbala
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woman; also used of a man who has taken no title
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ozo
Definition
the name of one of the titles or ranks
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palm wine
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an alcoholic beverage created from the sap of various species of palm tree
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iba
Definition
fever
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osu
Definition
outcast. having been dedicated to a god, the osu was taboo and was not allowed to mix with the freeborn in any way
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uri
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part of the betrothal ceremony when the dowry is paid
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egwugwu
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a masquerader who impersonates one of the ancestral spirits of the village
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obi
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the large living quarters of the head of the family
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harmattan
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a dusty wind from the sahara that blows toward the W. Coast of Africa during the winter
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cowries
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highly polished colorful shells used as currency
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ekwe, udu, ogene
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musical instruments; drum of wood; drum of pottery; gong
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