Writing

Cliff has answered many Writing questions from other students who need a little help on their homework and tests. Browse this list of questions to find out if Cliff has an answer for you.
101 Can you define indolent? (From Wharton's House of Mirth)
102 What does the word replete mean? (From Shakespeare's Henry V)
103 What are orisons? (From Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet)
104 I got marked down on a paper for using the word irregardless. Why?
105 What does it mean to be ephemeral?
106 What does it mean to be placid? (From Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre)
107 What is a paroxysm? (From Stoker's Dracula)
108 What does it mean to be fastidious? (From Dumas's The Count of Monte Cristo)
109 My English teacher got really mad when I said I was nauseous. Why?
110 What does it mean to be farinaceous? (From Tolstoy's Anna Karenina)
111 What does dejection mean? (From Shelley's Frankenstein)
112 Do stationary and stationery mean the same thing?
113 What is animadversion? (From Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter)
114 What does it mean to be timorous? (From Shakespeare's Othello)
115 Someone called me erudite. Is that good?
116 How is the word among different than the word between?
117 What is a mountebank? (From Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter)
118 What does incarnadine mean? (From Shakespeare's Macbeth)
119 What is a hierarchy?
120 What is the difference between tortuous and torturous?
121 What does it mean to be puissant? (From Shakespeare's Julius Caesar)
122 What is a purloiner? (From Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities)
123 What does it mean to be affable? (From Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment)
124 Can you help me understand the difference between the words censor and censure?
125 What does it mean to be ostensible? (From Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court)
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