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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 anecdote | short account of an incident (especially a biographical one) |
| perversion | the action of perverting something (turning it to a wrong use) |
| cynical | believing the worst of human nature and motives |
| sordid | meanly greedy and only working for money |
| garish | tastelessly showy |
| charlatan | a flamboyant deceiver, thinking you know something when you don't |
| desiccated | preserved by removing natural moisture |
| waning | a gradual decrease in magnitude or extent |
| exempt | grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to |
| placate | cause to be more favorably inclined |
| grisly | shockingly repellent |
| whimsical | determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason |
| furtive | secret and sly or sordid |
| premonition | an early warning about a future event |
| rosettes | An ornament or badge made of ribbon or silk that is pleated or gathered to resemble a rose and is used to decorate clothing or is worn in the buttonhole of civilian dress to indicate the possession of certain medals or honors. |
| raggedy | torn and in bad condition |
| lopsided | turned or twisted toward one side |
| frijol | the common bean plant grown for the beans rather than the pods (especially a variety with large red kidney-shaped beans) |
| tamale | corn and cornmeal dough stuffed with a meat mixture then wrapped in corn husks and steamed |
| salamander | any of various typically terrestrial amphibians that resemble lizards and that return to water only to breed |
| spartan | a resident of Sparta, unsparing and uncompromising in discipline or judgment |
| anemic | lacking vigor or energy, relating to anemia or suffering from anemia |
| meringue | sweet topping especially for pies made of beaten egg whites and sugar |
| braze | solder together by using hard solder with a high melting point |
| ferocious | marked by extreme and violent energy |
| makeshift | something contrived to meet an urgent need or emergency |
| jabber | rapid and indistinct speech, talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner |
| saga | a narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family |
| desist | choose no to consume, to stop and not continue |
| bunk | a rough bed (as at a campsite) |
| quota | a limitation on imports |
| cascades | usually a small waterfall, over rocks with water going over |
| guise | an external appearance, cover, mask |
| queue | (information processing) an ordered list of tasks to be performed or messages to be transmitted |
| partition | the act of dividing or partitioning |
| muddled | confused and vague |
| erudite | having or showing profound knowledge |
| dubiously | in a doubtful manner |
| bureaucratic | of or relating to or resembling a bureaucrat or bureaucracy |
| temperamental | likely to perform unpredictably, subject to sharply varying moods |
| third-person omniscient | narrator knows the feelings/thought of all characters |
| third-person limited | narrator only aware of one character's feelings |
| second-person | speaking to the protagonist ex: you might agree with Hemingway's point of view on pessimism |
| first-person | narrator takes on the voice/thoughts of a character |
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