| Term | Definition |
|---|
| abhor | to hate |
| abjure | to avoid |
| acquiesce | to agree to without protest |
| acrid | sour |
| allude | to refer to casually |
| animosity | strong dislike |
| apprehensive | fearfulness of something |
| assiduous | constant |
| august | inspiring admiration |
| buffet | a violent punch |
| callous | hardened |
| commend | to present if praiseworthy |
| elated | very happy |
| fathom | to understand |
| guile | cunning, artful deception |
| implicate | to show to be involved |
| indelible | cannot be eliminated |
| inkling | hint |
| misconstrue | misinterpret |
| multifarious | having great diversity or variety |
| omnipotent | almighty power |
| potent | powerful |
| profess | to declare openly |
| protrude | to stick out |
| quandary | state of uncertainty |
| quell | to put an end to |
| respite | a delay |
| sinuous | having curves or bends |
| squalid | wretched |
| superficial | being at or near the surface |
| tacit | implied |
| tangible | capable of being touched |
| vociferous | noisy |
| poignant | profoundly moving or touching |
| commodious | roomy, spacious |
| irony | difference between what is expected and what happens |
| conflict | struggle |
| characterization | method used to develop a character |
| mood | emotion created by writer on reader |
| setting | time and place of a stroy |
| purpose | reason why a work exists |
| stereotype | a conventional conception |
| memoir | record of personal, witnessed events |
| historical context | what historical events are going on at the time of the story |
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