Fences Vocabulary Week #1

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Playwright

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• A person who writes plays.

  
  Suffix: wright -meaning 'maker' or 'worker' (e.g., playwright, shipwright)

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Decade

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A period of ten years.

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Predominantly

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Mostly or mainly.

Suffix: ly-forming adverbs from adjectives (e.g., happy - happily, dominant - predominantly)

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Subsequent

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Following in time or order.

Prefix: Sub -meaning 'under' or 'below' (e.g., submarine, subconscious)

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Vernacular

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The everyday language spoken by people in a particular region or social group.

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Provocative

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Tending to provoke or stimulate thought or debate.

Suffix: ive- forming adjectives from verbs or nouns (e.g., active, creative, perceptive)

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Script

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The written text of a play. 

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Act

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A main division of a play.

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Scene

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In a play, acts are divided into scenes

Scenes are the smaller parts of each act

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Monologue

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A long speech by one character in a play

-Mono-: Prefix meaning “one,” “alone,” “single”

-Logue-: Suffix meaning denoting discourse of a specified type.