Unit 8 Vocab: "And Your Name Is..."

A place where sick or injured people are given care or treatment and where babies are often born

• hospital
• hospitable
• hostage
• hostile

Generous and friendly to guests or visitors

• hospital
• hospitable
• hostile
• hostage

A word that is spelled and pronounced like another word but is different in meaning

• homonym
• synonym
• antonym
• pseudonym

A word that has the same or similar meaning as another word in the same language

• synonym
• antonym
• homonym
• pseudonym

A word that is opposite to the meaning of another word

• antonym
• synonym
• homonym
• pseudonym

Not named or identified; made or done by someone unknown

• anonymous
• acronym
• pseudonym
• homonym

A name for something that is formed from the first letter of each word in a title

• acronym
• pseudonym
• synonym
• antonym

A name a person, such as a writer, uses instead of his or her own name

• pseudonym
• antonym
• anonymous
• synonym

Not friendly; having or showing unfriendly feelings; harsh or unpleasant

• hostile
• hostage
• hospitable
• hospital

A person who is captured by someone who demands that certain things be done before the captured person is set free

• hostage
• hostile
• hospitable
• hospital