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Semester 1-Midterm
This includes vocab 1-3 and nouns, pronouns, and verbs.
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English
9th Grade
10/14/2012

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Noun
Definition
Person, place, thing, or an idea.
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Noun
Definition
A word or word group that is used to name a person, place, thing, or an idea.
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Abstract Noun
Definition
Names an idea, felling, a quality, or a characteristic.
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Collective Noun
Definition
A word that names a group.
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Common Noun
Definition
Names any one of a group of persons, places, things, or ideas and is generally not capitalized.
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Of Direct Address Noun
Definition
The names of the person who is being spoken to. Is always a Proper Noun.
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Proper Noun
Definition
Names a particular person, place, thing, or idea and is capitalized.
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Pronoun
Definition
A word that is used in place of one or more nouns or pronouns.
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Demonstrative Pronoun
Definition
Used to point out a specific noun; examples include This, that, these, those.
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Indefinite Pronoun
Definition
Refers to one or more nouns that may or may not be specifically names.
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Interrogative Prounon
Definition
Introduce a question; examples include Who, whom, which, what, whose.
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Personal Prounoun
Definition
Any one of the pronouns used to refer to the speaker, or to one or more to or about whom or which he or she is speaking, as, in English, I, we, you, he, she, it, they.
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Possessive Pronoun
Definition
Show ownership.
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Reflexive Pronoun
Definition
Refers to the subject of a sentence.
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Verb
Definition
Word used to express action or a state of being.
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Action Verb
Definition
Expresses physical or mental action. Examples includes white, think, walk.
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Linking Verb
Definition
Connects the subject to a word or word group that identifies of descries the subject. Examples includes be, shall be, has been, could be.
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Auxiliary Verb
Definition
Allays preade mean verbs whiten verb brand, also know as Helping Verbs
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Renounce
Definition
To reject by declaration
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Invoke
Definition
To call on for support
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Provocative
Definition
Causing disturbance or excitement
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Affable
Definition
Easy to converse with; friendly
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Indict
Definition
To charge with a crime; accuse
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Prohibit
Definition
To stop one from doing something; prevent
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Confound
Definition
To confuse and frustrate
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Abstain
Definition
To not do something; refrain
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Tenacious
Definition
Stubbornly presistent; determined
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Implement
Definition
To put into action; execute
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Photogenic
Definition
Attractive in pictures or photographs.
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Lucid
Definition
Easy to understand; clear.
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Eludicate
Definition
To make clear by explaining.
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Prospect
Definition
That which is expected.
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Invidious
Definition
Hateful or spiteful.
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