Vocabulary from Sin and Syntax, Ch 1-8

Match the following words to their definitions:

• The range or variety of tone

• juxtaposition

• An indirect word used for one considered

• vacuous

• old-fashioned or outdated

• palette

• placing things close together to compare

• euphemism

• Empty or lacking contents or ideas

• antiquated

Match the following:

• a long, sometimes humorous letter

• cadence

• the responsibility for a wrong

• culpability

• a rhythmic sequence

• missive

• A word to which the pronoun refers

• proxy

• standing in for someone or something

• antecedent

Match the following

• to cause something to change state

• eschew

• to avoid or keep away from

• render

• the breaking down of something

• solipsistic

• selfish or self-centered

• alchemy

• a color that is bright and showy

• garish

Match the following

• people who are obsessed with rules

• pedants

• being arrogant, self-important

• obfuscate

• old-fashioned

• mnemonic

• a device to aid in learning a thing

• antiquated

• the act of making something unclear

• pompositiy

Match the following

• present, found everywhere

• philologist

• who studies the history of languages

• vestiges

• traces of something that no longer exist

• ubiquitous

• used in ordinary conversation

• pontificating

• expressing ideas in a pompous manner

• colloquial

Match the following

• passionate grief

• eloquent

• something that's just okay

• mediocre

• fluent or persuasive with words

• lament

• That that takes gives good as it takes

• symbiotic

• something that takes without giving

• parasitic

The ​ (a)   of adjectives can make writing powerful and showing.

• alchemy
• epithets
• proxy
• antecendents
• ediface

Mark isn't sure that he will get an A on his vocabulary quiz. The antecedent of ​ (a)   is​ (b)  

• he
• Mark

Martha's ​ (a)   essay left the teacher wondering what she was trying to say with all of those words.

• vacusous
• salvo
• tantamount
• garish
• suave
• antiquated