- Begrudge: to envy or resent the pleasure or good fortune of (someone):
- Behoove: to be necessary or proper for, as for moral or ethical considerations; be incumbent on:
- Belie: to show to be false; contradict; to misrepresent
- Cinquain: a short poem consisting of five, usually unrhymed lines containing, respectively, two, four, six, eight, and two syllables.
- Couplet: a pair of successive lines of verse, esp. a pair that rhyme and are of the same length.
- Diabolical: having the qualities of a devil; devilish; fiendish; outrageously wicked
- Ebullient: overflowing with fervor, enthusiasm, or excitement; high-spirited
- Effrontery: shameless or impudent boldness; barefaced audacity
- Ephemeral: lasting a very short time; short-lived; transitory
- Impediment: obstruction; hindrance; obstacle.
- Parsimonious: Parsimonious
- Prodigious: Prodigious
- Quatrain: a stanza or poem of four lines, usually with alternate rhymes.
- Sestet: the last six lines of a sonnet in the Italian form, considered as a unit.
Midterm Vocabualry