| Term | Definition |
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| dominion | the power or right of governing and controlling; sovereign authority. |
| horde | a large group, multitude, number, etc.; a mass or crowd |
| executioner | an official who inflicts capital punishment in pursuance of a legal warrant. |
| lope | to move or run with bounding steps, as a quadruped, or with a long, easy stride, as a person. |
| pelt | 1. the untanned hide or skin of an animal. 2. to throw (missiles). 3. to assail vigorously with words, questions 4. to hurry |
| writhe | 1. to twist the body about, or squirm, as in pain, violent effort, etc. 2. to shrink mentally, as in acute discomfort. |
| apparatus | any complex instrument or mechanism for a particular purpose. |
| solace | to console; to soothe |
| glade | an open space in a forest. |
| replicate | to bend or fold back: a replicated leaf. to repeat, duplicate, or reproduce, esp. for experimental purposes. |
| declarative | serving to declare, make known, or explain: a declarative statement. |
| moderate | 1.kept or keeping within reasonable or proper limits; not extreme, excessive, or intense: a moderate price. 2. of medium quantity, extent, or amount 3. calm or mild 4. to preside over or at 5. to become less violent, severe, intense, or rigorous |
| paternalistic | A policy or practice of treating or governing people in a fatherly manner, especially by providing for their needs without giving them rights or responsibilities. 2. benevolent but sometimes intrusive |
| ominous | portending evil or harm; foreboding; threatening; inauspicious: an ominous bank of dark clouds. 2. having the significance of an omen. |
| didactic | intended for instruction; instructive 2. inclined to teach |
| irony | a contrast between what appears to be true and what really is true |
| onomatopoeia | the formation of a word, as cuckoo or boom, by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent. |
| parable | a short allegorical story designed to illustrate or teach some truth, religious principle, or moral lesson. 2. a statement or comment that conveys a meaning indirectly by the use of comparison, analogy, or the like. |
| vulnerable | capable of or susceptible to being wounded or hurt, as by a weapon: 2. open to moral attack, criticism, temptation, etc.: |
| simple sentence | a sentence having only one clause, as I saw her the day before yesterday. |
| foreshadow | to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure |
| rhapsodic | extravagantly enthusiastic; ecstatic |
| reflective | . given to, marked by, or concerned with meditation or deliberation: |
| apprehensive | uneasy or fearful about something that might happen 2. q uick to learn or understand. |
| rhetorical | used for, belonging to, or concerned with mere style or effect. |
| wistful | characterized by melancholy; longing; yearning. |
| extol | to praise highly; laud; eulogize |
| hyperbole | obvious and intentional exaggeration. |
| legend | 1. a nonhistorical or unverifiable story handed down by tradition from earlier times and popularly accepted as historical. 2.a table on a map, chart, or the like, listing and explaining the symbols used. |
| liberal | favorable to progress or reform, as in political or religious affairs. 2.free from prejudice or bigotry; tolerant: |
| narrative voice | the voice used to narrate a story or literary work |
| compound sentence | a sentence containing two or more coordinate independent clauses, usually joined by one or more conjunctions, but no dependent clause, as The lightning flashed (independent clause) and (conjunction) the rain fell (independent clause) |
| flight of fancy | An unrealistic idea or fantastic notion, a pipe dream. |
| infer | to derive by reasoning; conclude or judge from premises or evidence: |
| exuberance | effusively and almost uninhibitedly enthusiastic; lavishly abundant |
| precocupied | completely engrossed in thought; absorbed. |
| irate | angry; enraged: |
| personification | the attribution of a personal nature or character to inanimate objects or abstract notions, |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance |
| naive | having or showing unaffected simplicity of nature or absence of artificiality; unsophisticated; ingenuous |
| conservative | disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change. 2. saving |
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