Satire Unit 4
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
Innuendo | an indirect (and usually malicious) implication |
Factotum | a servant employed to do a variety of jobs |
Threadbare | repeated too often |
Elude | avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues) |
Coup | a brilliant and notable success |
Contortion | the act of twisting or deforming the shape of something (e.g., yourself) |
Precarious | not secure |
Emanate | proceed or issue forth, as from a source |
Engender | to cause, to produce, to create |
Didactic | instructive (especially excessively) |
Implore | to beg |
Reprise | repeat an earlier theme of a composition |
Impute | attribute or credit to |
Solicitude | a feeling of excessive concern |
Masonry | the art or work of constructing, as buildings, walls, etc., with regularly arranged stones |
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