| Term | Definition |
|---|
| avert | To look away or turn from somthing you dont like |
| concede | to admit to somthing as right |
| Contemporary | of present time; modern |
| effusive | showing too much emotion |
| flagrant | shockingly clear easy to notice |
| Hypothesis | a mere assumtion or guess |
| Hearth | home or warmth |
| Lament | to show or feel sadness |
| Meticulous | to be extremely carefull and precise |
| Notorious | publicly or generally known, as for a particular trait |
| Refurbish | to make new |
| Stifle | to keep in or hold back; suppress |
| Turbulance | the quality of being unstable |
| Atone | to make amends or reparation as for an offense or a crime |
| Candid | Open and sincere |
| Concise | short and to the point |
| eloquence | the practice or art of using language with fluency and aptness |
| Fluctuate | to shift back and forth |
| Furor | a general outburst of enthusiasm |
| Lethal | pertaining to or causing death; deadly |
| Notoriety | the state, quality, or characteristic of being widely known |
| Tirade | A prolonged outburst of bitter, outspoken denunctiation |
| Personification | giving an object human like characteristics |
| Homophone | Any of two or more letters or groups of letters having the same pronunciation |
| Simile | A figure of speech in which two objects are compared using like or as |
| metaphor | A figure of speech in which two objects are compared without using like or as |
| symbolism | the practice of representing things by symbols, or of investing things with a symbolic meaning or character. |
| irony | the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning |
| hyperbole | obvious and intentional exaggeration |
| alliteration | The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables |
| antonym | a word opposite in meaning to another |
| allusion | a reference to a famous person place or idea |
| pun | a play on words |
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