Descriptionary

roofers benzodrazepines. Also known as roofies. rush inhalants.

scooby snax methamphetamine. sextasy ecstasy mixed with Viagra.

shiznit methamphetamine. 69s club slang for MDMA. slammer a needle for injecting drugs. smurfs MDMA. snap amphetamine.

snort to sniff inhalants or cocaine through the nose. soap GHB. Also, crack. speed methamphetamines or amphetamines. stacking taking illicit steroids.

stars MDMA.

stash a place or container where illicit drugs are stored or hidden.

stoned intoxicated by drugs; high. sugar heroin; cocaine; crack. supermans MDMA. swans MDMA. swerve methamphetamine. tar opium.

Tom and Jerries MDMA. troll use of LSD with MDMA. truck drivers amphetamine. tweaked high on methamphetamine. tweety birds MDMA. uppers

amphetamine. valley girl GHB.

water methamphetamine; PCP. Also, blunts. white cross amphetamines or methamphetamines. wired high on methamphetamine or other drug.

grammatical terms

adjective a word that describes or limits a noun or a pronoun.

adjective, descriptive a word that describes a noun or a pronoun, such as a "beautiful" woman.

adjective, limiting a word that limits a noun or a pronoun, such as "ten" apples, "five" fingers, "triple" play.

adjective, proper a descriptive adjective derived from proper noun, such as "American" music.

adverb a word or term that modifies a verb, adjec­tive, or another adverb, for example, he ran "quickly," or his pants were "really" strange, or she walked "very" softly.

agreement in a sentence, the agreement of verbs and other components in mood, tense, or number.

antecedent a word, phrase, or clause to which a pronoun refers.

antithesis a contrast of ideas within a sentence or paragraph.

appositive a noun or noun phrase placed next to another of the same as a means of explanation, for example, Boggs, "the third baseman," caught the ball.

clause a group of words, including a subject and a predicate, constituting one unit of a compound sen­tence.

climax in a sentence, the placement of the most important idea last or in the last clause, for strongest impact.

conjugation the inflection of verbs.

conjunction a word that connects clauses or sen­tence parts, such as "and," "but," "because," "as."

contraction a shortening of a word by the removal of one or more of its letters, replaced by an apostro­phe, such as "I'll" (I will), "can't" (cannot).

dangler a misplaced modifier that gives a sentence an unintended and sometimes humorous meaning, for example, "Riffling through my papers," the blue jay appeared at the window.

double negative the incorrect use of two nega­tives in one sentence, such as He "doesn't" know "nobody" there.

gerund the verb form ending in "-ing," when used as a noun.

infinitive a verb form without limitation of person or number.

inflection the change of a word's form to indicate case, gender, mood, tense, or voice.

interjection an exclamation, especially one that can stand alone, such as "Oh!" or "Heavens!"

modifier

a word or clause that limits or qualifies the meaning of another word or words.

noun a name of a person, place, thing, quality.

noun, abstract the name of an idea, quality, or other abstraction, such as happiness, knowledge, etc.

noun, collective a name of more than one thing, such as class, club, team.

noun, concrete a name for something that can be perceived through the senses, such as shirt, sky, clouds, smoke, foot.

noun, diminutive a name of something small or young, such as duckling, kitchenette, booklet, ring­let.

noun, gender a noun that indicates sex, such as bachelor, sister, buck, doe, widow, widower.

noun, proper a name of a person of place, or insti­tution, such as Mary, Chicago, New York Times.

paradigm a list or table of all the inflectional forms of a word or class of words.

plural a form of a word expressing more than one, such as apples, people, baskets.

predicate in a clause or sentence, a verb and its modifiers.

prefix a form or affix placed at the beginning of a word to alter its meaning, as "pre" in prefabricate or "re" in rerun.

preposition a word that indicates the relation of a substantive to a verb, adjective, or other substantive, such as at, by, in, to, from.

pronoun a word that serves as a substitute for a noun to prevent awkward repetition in a sentence.

sentence, complex a sentence having one princi­pal clause and one or more subordinate clauses, for example, "We are going now because it is late."