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| Question | Answer |
| inhospitable | difficult to stay or live in, especially because there is no shelter from the weather. Mars is inhospitable. |
| convivial | friendly, lively, and enjoyable. Tatiana is a convivial person at school. |
| placid | calm and peaceful, with very little movement. The lake is calm and placid. |
| gullible | too willing to believe or accept what other people tell you and therefore easily tricked. My sister is so gullible that she believe's me. |
| autonomous | having the freedom to govern itself or control its own affairs. Japan is a autonomous country. |
| onomatopoeia | The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named. Example: pop |
| cosonance | Agreement or compatibility between opinions or actions. Example: lazy lime. |
| assonance | Resemblance of sound between syllables of nearby words, arising particularly from the rhyming of two or more stressed vowels, but not consonants. Example: killed, cold. |
| metaphor | A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable. Example: Her ear was a silk. |
| alliteration | The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected word. Example: Miskey mountains. |
| simile | A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid. Example: She was sitting like a stone. |
| personification | The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something non-human, or the representation of an abstract quality in human for. Example: The fridge is standing in the corner. |
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