Freshman English Vocabulary Unit # 8
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rileyxoxo1 on January 24, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Cadence | the rhythmic flow of sounds in language |
| cowardice | ignoble fear in the face of danger |
| grotesque | bizarre;distorted |
| indecisive | not able to make a decision |
| insidious | spreading harm slowly and secretly; treacherous |
| juggernaut | massive, inexorable force or object crushing all in its path |
| limn | to describe; to depict by painting or drawing |
| luminous | emitting or bathed in light |
| manifest | to show; reveal |
| oblivion | the state of being forgotten |
| parry | to deflect; avoid; ward off |
| pedant | one who flaunts knowledge; one who pays undue attention to book learning and formal rules |
| plummet | to fall straight down |
| pyre | a pile of combustible materials for a burning corpse |
| receptacle | a container that hols matter |
| retaliation | to return like for like |
| simultaneously | at the same time |
| smolder | to burn with little smoke and no flame |
| suffuse | to spread through or over |
| verbiage | wordiness |
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