2nd Vocab
🇬🇧
In English
In English
Practice Known Questions
Stay up to date with your due questions
Complete 5 questions to enable practice
Exams
Exam: Test your skills
Test your skills in exam mode
Learn New Questions
Manual Mode [BETA]
Select your own question and answer types
Specific modes
Learn with flashcards
Complete the sentence
Listening & SpellingSpelling: Type what you hear
multiple choiceMultiple choice mode
SpeakingAnswer with voice
Speaking & ListeningPractice pronunciation
TypingTyping only mode
2nd Vocab - Leaderboard
2nd Vocab - Details
Levels:
Questions:
40 questions
| 🇬🇧 | 🇬🇧 |
| Assertion | A strong statement |
| Antithesis | Statement opposed to another assertion (Not this, but that) |
| Anticipate an Objection | Addressing an objection before someone can raise it |
| Direct address | Speaking directly to someone |
| Rebuttal | Final opposition to an assertion, disproving or refuting |
| Reduce to the absurd | Showing the foolishness of an argument (usually through sarcasm) |
| Parallelism | When a writer or speaker expresses ideas of equal worth with the same grammatical form. (I came, I saw, I conquered) |
| Overstatement | Saying considerably more that the situation warrants, usually to be ironic |
| Rhetorical Question | Asking a question without desiring a response |
| Repetition | Deliberately repeating words or phrases to achieve a certain purpose |
| Anaphora | A special kind of repetition where words or phrases are repeated at the beginning of clauses |
| Sarcasm | Bitter or ironic language directed to cut or cause pain |
| Juxtaposition | Placing two opposite things side by side for comparison |
| Asyndeton | Leaving out conjunctions (apples, carrots, bananas) |
| Polysyndeton | Adding conjunctions (apples and carrots and bananas) |
| Allusion | Indirect reference to literary, artistic, scientific, or historical people, places, or things for effect |
| Metaphor | A direct comparison between two unlike things for related effects (not using like or as) |
| Personification | Human characteristics given to nonhuman things |
| Simile | A comparison using like or as |
| Diction | Word choice |
| Imagery | Language used to evoke mental pictures; appeals to your senses |
| Syntax | Sentence structure |
| Irony | Is the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning. |
| Arugment | A set of statements, each supporting the others, that presents a position or viewpoint. An argument contains a hook, claim, support, concession & refutation, and call to action. |
| Call to action | Voices a final plea |
| Claim | Assert or affirm strongly; states your belief and what you wish to argue |
| Concession | The act of yielding; recognizes the arguments made by the other side |
| Refutation | At length against the opposing viewpoint by proving your side has more validity |
| Support | He act of bearing the weight of or strengthening; the reasoning behind your argument |
| Theme | The subject matter of a conversation or discussion; the underlying message |
| Topic sentence | Asserts an opinion about a specific topic |
| Transition | The act of passing place to the next; used in writing to make ideas flow together |
| Cohesion | How the structure and content of a sentence or text is linked together to create meaning |
| False generalizations | A type of false reasoning in which speakers don't have enough evidence to support a broad conclusion, or they selectively leave out details and come to a quick conclusion |
| Pas de deux | A dance for two people, typically a man and a woman |
| Implication | An idea that is communicated indirectly, through a suggestion or hint |
| Consciousness | Our awareness of ourselves and our environment |
| Demolition | Destruction |
| Anecdote | A short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person |
| Hostility | Unfriendliness; hatred |