| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Surfeit | a fullness beyond the point of satisfaction |
| Sully | to spoil; tarnish |
| Blatantly | in an extremely obvious way; conspicuously |
| Grimace | a twisting or distortion of the face |
| Ingenuous | innocent; naïve |
| Incorrigible | Impossible to correct or reform; uncontrollable |
| Malicious | wicked, spiteful |
| Petulance | Ill temper; annoyance |
| Poignant | emotionally touching or moving |
| Precarious | Risky; uncertain |
| Anonymity | a state of being unknown or unrecognized, without special or distinguishing qualities |
| Articulate | Clear and effective in speech |
| Coherent | understandable: logically consistent |
| Compound | to form or make up; compose |
| Denounciation | an act of condemning or accusing another; acusation |
| Dredge | To dig into; unearth |
| Laceration | a pysical, mental, or emotional wound |
| Preening | Dressing and grooming oneself with excessive car; primping |
| Prestige | Honor; admiration |
| Ravaged | devastated, ruined |
| Atrocious | shockingly bad or lacking in taste; awful |
| Femme Fatales | Weomen whose suductive charms lead men into dangerous or compromising situations. |
| Bohemian | A person typically with artistic or intellectual aspirations who lives an unconventionsal life. |
| Epithet | Brief descriptive pharases that emphasize traits associated with particular persons or things (Chicago) |
| Parallelism | A technique in which a speaker or writer expresses ideas of equal worth with the same grammatical form |
| Personification | Giving human-qualities to non-human things |
| Synthesizing | The combining of separate parts or elements to form a whole |
| Making Inferences | To conclude by reasoning from premises or evidence. To guess or surmise |
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