Damaso Ultimate Semester I Study
About this set
Created by:
FRuta11 on December 12, 2008
Subjects:
Description:
Semester 1 Final Review Contains everything you need to study for Damaso's Honors English II Mid-term. including Grammar, Vocabulary, and Author Biographies. If a word has two different definition and they are both the same part of speech separate the two definitions by semicolons If you think (see more)
Classes:
Log in to favorite or report as inappropriate.
Order by
298 terms
Latin | English |
|---|---|
| abdicate |  to resign a high office |
| affable | friendly |
| appurtenance | accompanying part or feature |
| benign | harmless; kind or gentle |
| bulbous | round and swollen |
| candid | honest |
| chagrin | strong disappointment |
| collude | to secretly cooperate with somebody to do something illegal |
| complacent | self-satisfied |
| contemptuous | expressing dislike |
| demure | shy, modest |
| desultory | happening in a random way |
| excelsior | packing material made from wood shavings |
| flaccid | limp; lacking energy |
| florid | having an unhealthy pink or red complexion; overly complicated |
| haphazard | unplanned |
| imperceptible | tiny |
| incredulous | showing disbelief |
| indignant | angry with injustice |
| ineffable | unable to be expressed into words |
| influx | sudden arrival of a large number of people or things |
| ingratiate | to seek someone's favor |
| insolence | aggressive disrespect |
| intrinsic | basic and essential |
| jocular | fond of joking, humorous |
| jovial | cheerful |
| latent | underlying |
| malevolence | ill will |
| motif | theme in literature; repeated design |
| mottled | spotted |
| myopia | lack of foresight |
| opaque | not transparent |
| petulance | bad temper |
| phlegmatic | unexcitable |
| placid | calm in nature or appearance |
| prim | proper and prudish |
| quiescent | inactive |
| recalcitrant | resisting authority |
| salient | noticeably significant; protruding |
| sardonic | cynically mocking |
| scant | inadequate |
| somber | dark and gloomy |
| spasmodic | intermittent; occuring at an uneven interval |
| stolid | unemotional |
| surreptitious | secretive |
| tremulous | fearful, shaking |
| truculence | aggressive defiance |
| turgid | pompous and overcomplicated; overflowing |
| wan | pale, faint |
| wry | amusing and ironic |
| a/ab | not, the opposite of |
| ad | to, towards |
| ante ; pre | before |
| anti ; contra | against, opposed to |
| be | about, concerning |
| bene | good |
| circum | around |
| col/com/cor | with, together |
| post | after |
| de | lacking/reverse/away |
| dis | lacking |
| em/en | to make, cause or give |
| equi | equal |
| ex/extra | out of, outside |
| hemi | half |
| hyper | overly, too much |
| il/im/in/ir ; non | not (a negative) |
| inter | between, among |
| intra | within |
| intro | into |
| mal | bad, evil |
| micro | small, tiny |
| mid | halfway |
| mis | wrong, incorrect |
| pro | forward, in favor of |
| re | again, back to |
| retro | backwards (in time) |
| semi | half, partial |
| sub | below, beneath, under |
| super | over and above |
| trans | across, beyond |
| un | not, the reverse of |
| ly, ily | manner (suffix) |
| ward | towards (suffix) |
| wise | like (suffix) |
| able ; ible | able to (suffix) |
| acious ; ful ; ous | full of (suffix) |
| al/ical ; ant ; ular | related to (suffix) |
| ic ; like | like (suffix) |
| ish | like, similar to (suffix) |
| ive | pertaining to (suffix) |
| less | without (suffix) |
| most | to the extreme (suffix) |
| verb suffixes | meaning make, do or have |
| (list) verb suffixes | ate, en, fy, ise, ize |
| noun suffixes | refers to a person |
| (list) noun suffixes | ant, eer, er, cian, ier, ist, or |
| abstract noun suffixes | refers to a noun that you can't see or touch |
| (list) abstract noun suffixes | ance, ancy, ation, cy, dom, ence, hood, ice, ism, ity, ty, ment, ness, ship, sion, tude |
| (list) adverb suffixes | ly, ily, ward, wise |
| able, acious, al, ical, ant, ful, ible, ic, ish, ive, less, like, ly, most, ous, ular | List Adjective Suffixes |
| agro/agri | field, farm |
| anthropo | man, human |
| arch | chief, main, first |
| astro | star |
| aud.audio | hear |
| avi | bird,fly |
| biblo | book |
| cess/cede/ceed | to move |
| chrom | color |
| chron | time |
| clar | clear |
| cor/corp | body |
| cred | believe, belief |
| dem/demo | people |
| derm/dermo | skin |
| dic | to speak or say |
| duc | to lead |
| fid | trust |
| fin | the end |
| flu | to flow |
| gen | birth, race, family |
| geo | earth, land |
| graph | to write |
| greg | group, crowd, or flock |
| hemo | blood |
| homo (L) | man |
| homo (G) | the same |
| hydro | water |
| ject | to throw |
| laud | to praise |
| leg | law |
| litho | stone |
| log/logo | word |
| luc/lus/lumen | light |
| man/manu | hand |
| meter | measure |
| mit/miss | to send |
| mort | death |
| mut | change |
| nov | new |
| pac | peace |
| pater | father |
| ped (L) | foot |
| ped (G) | child |
| pend | hang |
| phon | sound |
| photo | light |
| port | to carry |
| pos/pon | to put or place |
| psych | mind |
| pyro | fire |
| sci | to know |
| scrib/scrip | to write |
| sen | old |
| soph | wise, wisdom |
| spec | to look, see or watch |
| sto/sta | to remain the same, steady |
| struct | to build |
| tect | to cover |
| temp | time |
| ten | to hold |
| theo | god |
| thermo | heat |
| tort | to twist or turn |
| tract | to pull or draw |
| ven | to come |
| ver | truth, true |
| vic/vinc | to conquer, defeat |
| vid/vis | to look, see or watch |
| viv/vita | to live, life |
| voc/vok | to call, voice |
| zo/zoo | animal |
| alliteration | the repitition of the same initial consonant sounds in neighboring words |
| allusion | a passing, indirect, or casual reference to some piece of knowledge |
| anachronism | some event, object, or person that is not placed in its correct chronological position |
| anaphora | the repitition of emphasized words at the beginning of consecutive clauses |
| apostrophe | the direct address to the absent as present, the inanimate as living, or to the abstract as personal |
| assonance | repetition of alike vowel sounds while changing the intervening consonant |
| blank verse | unrhymed verse of iambic pentameter |
| consonance | the repetition of similar consonant sounds in words in a passage while changing intervening vowels |
| couplet | two consecutive lines in a verse that rhyme and have the same meter |
| direct address | talking to a person directly with their representation or name usually separated by punctuation on both sides; using the vocative case |
| dramatic foil | a character who opposes or is compared to the protagonist and keeps him from succeeding, in the while, showing his flaws and strengths |
| enjambment | the continuation of a thought from one line to the next without a syntatical break |
| euphemism | the replacement of a vulgar or offensive word with a milder one |
| extended metaphor | a metaphor that is extended by creating many comparisons between unlike things or ideas |
| foreshadowing | providing vague indications beforehand, which prognosticate a certain happening or happenings in the future |
| hyperbole | a figure of speech which uses exaggeration to provide emphasis or give a powerful effect. |
| iambic pentameter | a line of ten syllables that is accented or stressed every second syllable |
| irony (dramatic) | the situation of incongruity when the audience knows something the character does not |
| irony (situational) | when the outcome comes out to be what the audience did not expect |
| litotes | a figure of speech in which there is an understatement negating the opposite |
| metaphor | the comparision of two usually unlike things without the use of like or as |
| metonymy | a figure of speech using the name of something on or associated with the object to represent the object |
| onomatopoeia | a word formed to imitate the sound of what it is describing |
| oxymoron | a phrase that contains two words related through syntax that contradict each other |
| personification | the attribution of human or animate qualities to an inanimate or nonhuman thing. |
| pun | a play on words usually using the homophonic or homonymic words to say two different things using the same phrase |
| synecdoche | a figure of speech when a part is used for a whole and vice versa or something special is used for something generic and vice versa |
| soliloquy | the occurence where a person, usually in a play, is talking to himself or herself disregarding or being oblivious to any listeners |
| stichomythy | when characters have brief exchanges of dialogue usually switching every line or verse |
| zeugma | when a word governs two or more words under it which are used in different ways in respect to the governing word |
| annul | to make something invalid |
| apologia | a formal or written justification of a belief |
| burnished | brown, shiny, and smooth |
| callous | hard-hearted |
| carapace | animal shell; self-protectiveness |
| cede | to surrender something |
| coagulate | to become semi-solid |
| fathom (n.) | a measure of water depth |
| fathom (v.) | to comprehend something |
| furl | to roll up and secure something |
| gaunt | extremely thin and bony |
| gelatinous | semi-solid |
| interminable | seemingly endless |
| juncture | point in time; joining place |
| lurch | to move violently |
| malignant | harmful |
| myriad (adj.) | numerous |
| myriad (n) | a large number |
| peril | danger |
| taut | stretched tightly |
| thwart | to frustrate something |
| undulate | to move in waves |
| baseness | the quality of lacking higher values |
| exalt | to glorify, praise, to raise in rank |
| replicate | to repeat or to copy |
| vulgar | offensive to good taste |
| flourish | to thrive or to grow well |
| homage | respect shown by external action |
| ominous | threatening |
| servile | overly submissive |
| soothsayer | fortuneteller |
| lament | to express sorrow |
| vex | to cause discomfort |
| rout | to gouge out |
| repute (v.) | to consider as specified |
| repute (n.) | estimation in the view of others |
| mettle | courage or spirit |
| knotty | overly complicated |
| portentous | forewarning |
| prodigy | one with exceptional talents |
| prodigious | extraordinary in quantity or degree |
| alchemy | medieval chemistry; the changing of metal into gold |
| bestow | to grant or give |
| abridge | to shorten |
| ascend | to move upward |
| augment | to make greater |
| augury | omen |
| bequeath | to hand down |
| clamor | a loud noise |
| confound | to confuse |
| covert | secret, hidden |
| engender | to cause, produce, create |
| gravity | seriousness |
| indignation | anger resulting from injustice |
| kindle | to start a fire; to stir up |
| mirth | glee |
| muse (n.) | an inspiration for art |
| muse (v.) | to ponder |
| revere | to honor and respect |
| rhetoric | the art of persuasion using words |
| spurn | to reject with hostility |
| unassailable | undeniable |
| vanquish | to conquer |
| lie, lying, lay, lain | (principle parts) to recline |
| lie, lying, lied, lied | (principle parts) to tell untruth |
| lay, laying, laid, laid | (principle parts) to put or place |
| Stratford upon Avon | Shakespeare's birth and death place |
| Julius Caesar | first play at Globe theatre |
| glove maker | Shakespeare's father's profession |
| Hamnet | Shakespeare's only son |
| Ann Hathaway | Shakespeare's wife |
| Lord Chamberlain's men | company that builds Globe Theater |
| hamartia | a mismatch between character and circumstances that contributes to a protagonist's downfall |
| exposition | introduction to characters, setting, and basic situation |
| peripeteia | reversal of fortune (from good to bad) |
| catastrophe | hero's status changes |
| anagnorisis | tragic protagonist's process of recognition of his own nature and destiny when things are at their worst |
| catharsis | powerful release of emotions that make a tragedy so moving |
| hubris | ill-treating others to make your own superiority greater, excessive arrogance |
| meter | the recurrence in a poetic line of a regular rhythmic unit |
| foot | a combination of stressed and unstressed syllable which constitutes the recurrent rhythmic unit of a line |
| syllable | a single uninterrupted sound |
| Ernest Hemingway | this person died by self-inflicted shotgun wound |
| Oak Park (Illinois) | Hemingway's birthplace |
| Ketchum (Idaho) | Hemingway's death place |
| Kansas City Star | Publication where Hemingway began his career |
| Catherine Barkley | nurse that Hemingway fell in love with |
| expatriate | a person who leaves their country and goes and works in another country esp. writers |
| Key West (Florida) | Where Hemingway wrote most of his novels |
| Mark Twain | Most influential author to Hemingway |
| Pulitzer; Nobel | Two prizes that Hemingway won |
| true | (true or false) Dashiell Hammet worked as a detective |
| there were many materials at the building site | (edit) there were many materials at the building cite |
| I lay on the couch yesterday | (edit) I laid on the couch yesterday |
| Young Byron felt persecuted by their giggling | (edit) Young Byron felt prosecuted by their giggling |
First Time Here?
Welcome to Quizlet, a fun, free place to study. Try these flashcards, find others to study, or make your own.