English Final
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 adjunct | a subordinate, an assistant |
| admonish | to warn, to caution |
| advocate | to reccomend, to speak in favor of |
| affiliate | an associate, a partner |
| affliction | anything causing great suffering |
| aghast | feeling great dismay or horror |
| alacrity | livliness, willingness, eagerness |
| alienate | to make someone unfriendly towards you |
| allude | to hint at, to refer to indirectly |
| aloof | reserved,distant |
| amalgamate | to combine |
| ambidextrous | equally skillful with either hand |
| anachronism | something or someone out of its proper time |
| animate | to give life or motion to |
| anthropomorphic | attributing human characteristics or qualities to objects, animals, or gods |
| antiquated | no longer used or useful; very old |
| aphorism | a concise statement of a truth or principle |
| aplomb | self-confidence |
| bandy | to give and take quickly in conversation; to toss back and forth |
| bane | the cause of ruin, harm or distress, death |
| beget | to produce; to be the parent of |
| begrudge | to resent another's success; to give with reluctance |
| belated | delayed |
| beleaguer | To besiege by encircling (as with an army); to harass |
| benediction | a blessing |
| beneficiary | one who recieves benefits |
| berate | to scold or rebuke severely and at length |
| berserk | in a state of violent or destructive rage |
| bias | a predjudiced view |
| bibliophile | a lover of books |
| bilk | to cheat or swindle; to thwart |
| blatant | offensivley noisy; obvious, too conspicious |
| blight | anything that destroys, prevents growth, or causes devaluation |
| cache | a hidding place; or things hidden, usually valuables |
| cadaverous | of or like a corpse; pale; gaunt; thin |
| calumny | a false and malicious accusation |
| careen | to lean sideways; to lurch from side to side while in motion |
| caricature | an exaggerated portrayl of one's features |
| carnage | a bloody and extensive slaughter |
| carp | to complain or find fault in a petty or nagging way |
| catalyst | a person, thing, or agent that causes or speeds up or stimulates a result, reaction, or change |
| catholic | universal; wide-ranging |
| cavort | to leap about in a sprightly manner; to romp |
| chafe | to irritate as if by friction or rubbing |
| charisma | personal appeal or attraction; magnetism |
| chauvanist | one having a fanatical devotion to a country, gender, or religion, and displaying contempt for other countries, the opposite sex, or other beliefs |
| chicanery | the use of tricks or clever talk to deceive or evade |
| choleric | easily angered |
| dally | to waste time; dwadle |
| dastardly | mean and cowardly |
| daub | to paint coarsely or unskillfully |
| daunt | to make afraid or discouraged |
| dawdle | to waste time |
| debonair | carefree and self-confident in manner; elegant and gracious |
| decadence | moral deterioration |
| declaim | to speak in a dramatic, impassioned, or blustering manner |
| defunct | no longer in exsistence |
| deify | to make a god of; to look upon or worship as a god |
| delete | to take out; cross out |
| delude | to mislead; to fool |
| deluge | a flood; a great downpour; an overwhelming rush of anything |
| demented | mentally ill; insane |
| demise | death; a ceasing to exsist |
| denigrate | to ruin the reputation of; speak ill of |
| denizen | an occupant; inhabitant |
| deplete | to use up gradually |
| desecrate | to damage a holy place; to treat with irreverence |
| desist | to stop; forbear |
| desolate | lonley; forlorn; uninhabited; barren |
| despot | a dictator with absolute power |
| edifice | a large, elaborate structure; an imposing building |
| educe | to draw or bring out |
| egalitarian | belief in the equality of all people |
| efface | to obliterate; to wipe out |
| egress | the right to go out; or a way to go out |
| elated | to be in high spirits; exultantly proud and joyful |
| eerie | weird, mysterious; strange and frightening |
| effrontery | unashamed boldness |
| effusive | a pouring out; an excsessive display of emotions; overly demonstrative |
| elite | the choice or best of a group |
| elude | to escape notice; to get away from |
| embroil | to draw into a conflict or fight |
| emissary | one sent on a special to represent others |
| emit | to send out; to give forth, as in sound |
| enmity | deep-seated hostility, often mutual |
| ensue | to result from |
| entice | to attract by offering reward or pleaasure |
| entity | an independant being; a real and independent exsistence |
| envisage | to form a mental picture |
| epigram | a witty saying expressing a single thought or emotion |
| epitaph | inscription on a tombstone |
| equivocal | ambigous; purposley vague |
| eradicate | to wipe out; destroy |
| fabricate | to make, to build; to make up a story in order to decieve |
| facade | deceptive outward appearance; front part of a building |
| climax | the high point of interest or suspense in a plot |
| imagery | language that creates a representation of an object |
| irony | difference between appearance and reality |
| motivation | force that moves a character to think |
| paradox | a seemingly contradictory statement of an idea or event |
| plot | series of events related to a central conflict |
| point of view | vantage point from which the story is told |
| setting | the time and place in which a literary work occurs |
| stereotype | uncritically acusation fixed on a conventional idea, particuarlly on groups of people |
| symbolism | something that stands out and represents itself and something else |
| regional dialect | version of language spoken by people of a particular place or time |
| allegory | a work in which each element represents something else |
| flashback | presents an event that had occured earlier in the work |
| analogy | a comparison of two things that are alike in some respects |
| protagonist | the main character |
| antagonist | the character pitted against the protagonist |
| foreshadowing | presenting materials that hint at events to occur later in the story |
| theme | central idea in a literary work |
| interior monologue | presents the private sensations, thoughts, and emotions of a character |
| imminent | impending threatening, about to occur |
| indelible | permanent |
| deftly | skillfully |
| livid | black and blue |
| indiference | lack of concern |
| odious | disgusting, offensive |
| hogan | A cone-shaped Navajo shelter built by covering a log frame with mud |
| surmise | imagine or infer on light grounds |
| relent | give in or slacken |
| tone | the emotional attitude toward the readeror toward the subject implied by a literary work |
| similie | a comparison using like or as |
| rhyme | repetition of sounds at the end of words |
| meter | a poem's rythmical pattern |
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