English Vocabulary
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 agent | someone that speeds up a process |
| ambiguous | unclear or vague |
| beguile | to deceive, to mislead, to persuade with charm |
| bildungsroman | a novel that deals with the coming of age or growing up of a young person from childhood or adoloscence to maturity |
| bombast | arrogant, pompous language |
| castigate | severely punish |
| cleft | a slit |
| conjure | evoke or call forth, with or as if by magic |
| connotation | an associated meaning |
| copious | large in number or quantity |
| couplet | two successive rhyming lines in poetry |
| cumulative | gradually building up |
| delude | to mislead; to fool |
| denotation | dictionary definition |
| despondency | deep depression |
| devise | arrange by systematic planning and united effort |
| discourse | formal conversation |
| disposition | someone's general manner of being or general mood |
| dissemble | to hide under fake appearance, a disguise |
| doppleganger | ghostly double of a living person |
| edify | to teach |
| equivocate | to use ambiguous language to purposefully confuse |
| fathom | to understand fully |
| foil | a character who provides comparison to the main character |
| homage | Honor or respect shown publicly |
| impose | to forcibly place upon |
| invert | turn inside out or upside down |
| knave | scoundrel, rogue |
| lascivious | inclined to lustfulness |
| mood | a characteristic state of feeling |
| motif | reoccurring theme or symbol |
| mountebank | someone who tricks people to get money |
| misogyny | hatred of women |
| mutiny | to revolt against something |
| obsequious | Overly submissive and eager to please |
| overt | open, not hidden, expressed or revealed in a way that is easily recognized |
| palpable | capable of being touched or felt |
| paradox | something that contradicts or opposes common sense and is true |
| paragon | a model of excellence or perfection |
| pariah | A social outcast |
| perdition | eternal damnation |
| pliant | able to adjust readily to different conditions |
| post-haste | with great quickness |
| prattle | babble |
| pseudonym | A fictitious name used by an author; a pen name |
| rebuke | to criticize severely |
| sate | fill to satisfaction |
| saucy | sassy, rude, disrespectful |
| sequester | seperate |
| soliloquy | a short monologue spoken by one person that is truthful |
| sublime | inspiring awe |
| subservient | under authority |
| timorous | shy |
| tone | the sound of something showing mood (text, speech etc..) |
| visage | the appearance conveyed by a person's face |
| avert | to avoid |
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