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| 183197722 | invective | attack using strong abusive words | 0 | |
| 183197723 | antececedent | a word, phrase or clause referred to by a pronoun | 1 | |
| 183197724 | PENDANTIC | an adjective that describes words phrases or general tone that is overly scholarly, academic, or bookish | 2 | |
| 183197725 | syntax | the way an author choses to join words in a phrase or sentence | 3 | |
| 183197726 | chiasmus | a figure of speech based on inverted parallelism. it is a rethorical figure in which two clauses are related to eachother through a reversal of terms. purpose= to make larger point, to make balanced or order | 4 | |
| 183197727 | allegory | the device of using character and or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning. the meaning usually deals with a moral truth or generalization about human existence | 5 | |
| 183197728 | personification | a figure of speech in which the author presents or describes concepts, animals, or inanimate objects by endowing them with human attributes or emotions | 6 | |
| 183197729 | predicate nominative | a second type of subject complement- a noun, group of nouns, or noun clause that renames the subject | 7 | |
| 183197730 | oxymoron | the author groups apparently contradictory terms to suggest a paradox | 8 | |
| 183197731 | colloquialism | slang or informality in speech or writing. not generally acceptable in formal writing | 9 | |
| 183197732 | litotes | a figure of speech by which an affirmation is made indirectly by denying its opposite | 10 | |
| 183197733 | transition | a word or phrase that links different ideas. Used especially although not exclusively in expository and argumentative writing | 11 | |
| 183197734 | ad hominen argument | appeals to emotion rather than reason to feeling rather than intellect | 12 | |
| 183197735 | parody | a work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic affectand or ridicule | 13 | |
| 183197736 | apostate | one who forsakes his religion or party | 14 | |
| 183197737 | gothic | characterized by or emphasizing a gloomy setting and grotesque or violent events | 15 | |
| 183197738 | consensus | collective or general agreement of an opinion feeling or thinking | 16 | |
| 183197739 | labyrinth | a bewildering maze; any confusing or complicated situation | 17 | |
| 183197740 | effusive | highly demonstrative; unrestrained | 18 | |
| 183197741 | quixotic | extravagently or romantically idealistic; visionary without regard to practical consideration | 19 | |
| 183197742 | tangential | only slightly connected; only supericially relevant | 20 | |
| 183197743 | bravado | a display of false or assemed courage | 21 | |
| 183197744 | redundant | superflous, needlessly repetitive | 22 | |
| 183197745 | euphora | a feeling of great happiness or well-being often with no objective basis | 23 | |
| 183197746 | impasse | a dead end; a postition from which there is no excape | 24 | |
| 183197747 | calumny | a false and malicious statement made to injure someone's reputation or character | 25 | |
| 183197748 | dichotomy | division into two contradictory or mutualy exclusive parts | 26 | |
| 183197749 | mystique | the framework of ideas or beliefs constructed around a person or thing which confers upon him or its profound meaning; and aura of mystery | 27 | |
| 183197750 | non sequitur | any inference or conclusion which does not follow logically from the facts or premises | 28 | |
| 183197751 | sine qua non | an essential or indispensable element or condition | 29 | |
| 183197752 | plebeian | of belonging to common people or the lower classes; coarse or vulgar; member of common | 30 | |
| 183197753 | propitious | favorable indicative of favor, good results, or a happy outcome | 31 | |
| 183197754 | lugubrious | sad mournful or gloomy especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree | 32 | |
| 183197755 | metamorphosis | a complete transformation as if by magic | 33 | |
| 183197756 | constrict | to make smaller or narrower | 34 | |
| 183197757 | raconteur | a person who tells stories and anecdotes with great skill | 35 | |
| 183197758 | vendetta | a prolonged feud often between two families characterized by retaliatory acts or revenge | 36 | |
| 183197759 | quagmire | soft soggy mush or slush; a difficult or entrapping | 37 | |
| 183197760 | parlous | full of danger or risk; perilous | 38 | |
| 183197761 | punctilio | a minure detail of conduct or procedure, an instant of time | 39 | |
| 183197762 | viable | capable of living or developing under normal circumstances | 40 | |
| 183197763 | vacuous | devoid of matter substance or meaning; lacking ideas or intalligence; purposeless | 41 | |
| 183197764 | narcissism | excessive self love; absorption in oneself | 42 | |
| 183197765 | charisma | the special personal magnetism that makes an individual exceptionally appealing to other people | 43 | |
| 183197766 | precarious | very uncertain or unsure; dangerous risky | 44 | |
| 183197767 | niggardly | stingy;meaning small or insufficient | 45 | |
| 183197768 | execrable | utterly detestable hateful or abhorremt; extremely inferior | 46 | |
| 183197769 | utilitarian | more noteworthy for usefulness than for attractiveness | 47 | |
| 183197770 | zany | clownish or funny in a crazy buzarre or ludicrous way | 48 | |
| 183197771 | xenophobia | undue or unreasonable fear hatred or contempt of foreigners or strangers | 49 | |
| 183197772 | pastiche | a dramatic musical or literary work that made up of bits and piecesfrom other sources | 50 | |
| 183197773 | augur | a prophet or seer(V) to predict of foreshadow | 51 | |
| 183197774 | vagary | an unpredictable erratic or seemingly purposeless action occurrence or notion | 52 | |
| 183197775 | rapport | a close and harmonious relationship | 53 | |
| 183197776 | raconteur | a person who tells stories and anecdotes with great skill | 54 | |
| 183197777 | zealot | a fanatical partisan; an ardent follower | 55 | |
| 183197778 | apposite | appropriate; suitable, apt | 56 | |
| 183197779 | impinge | to stricke against or collide with violently; to encroach or obtrude upon | 57 | |
| 183197780 | bilk | to defraud cheat or swindle out of one's due; to evade payment by stealth or fraud | 58 | |
| 183197781 | debilitate | to make weak or feeble | 59 | |
| 183197782 | clairvoyant | reputedly able to see things outside the normal or usual rnage of human perception such a person | 60 | |
| 183197783 | immaculate | spotlesswithout blemish or fault | 61 | |
| 183197784 | bromide | a trite or commplace remark; a tiresome or boring person | 62 | |
| 183197785 | acerbity | sourness or bitterness of taste; harshness or severity of manner or expression | 63 | |
| 183197786 | ineluctable | not able to be avoided changed or overcome | 64 | |
| 183197787 | vestigial | visible or existing only in a rudimentary or greatly degenerated state | 65 | |
| 183197788 | resplendent | shining or gleaming brilliantly splendid or magnificiant | 66 | |
| 183197789 | accolade | praise or approval | 67 | |
| 183197790 | mercurial | characterized by rapid and unpredictable changes of mood | 68 | |
| 183197791 | imprecation | a curse, the act of cursing | 69 | |
| 183197792 | empathy | the ability to enter into or experience another person's actions feelings or thoughts as if they were ones own | 70 | |
| 183197793 | factionalism | party strife and intrigue | 71 | |
| 183197794 | chauvinist | extravagantly patriotic; blindly devoted to a cause | 72 | |
| 183197795 | attrition | the process of wearing down by friction or gradual impairment | 73 | |
| 183197796 | volition | the power to chose, will, or decide; the act of choosing | 74 | |
| 183197797 | vainglory | excessive pride in and boastfulness about one's own accomplishments | 75 | |
| 183197798 | sub rosa | in secret confidentially privately | 76 | |
| 183197799 | stigmatize | to brand or mark out as in some way discernitable | 77 | |
| 183197800 | palliate | to make less serious or severe by glossing over, to relieve witout actually curing | 78 | |
| 183197801 | protocol | cutoms and regulations dealing with official behavior and etiquette | 79 | |
| 183197802 | contretemps | an inopportune or embarassing occurrence; a mishap | 80 | |
| 183197803 | disparate | completely distinct or differnet; entirely dissimilar | 81 | |
| 183197804 | convolution | a rolling up coiling twisting together | 82 | |
| 183197805 | repartee | a swift witty reply, conversation full of such remarks ; skill in making such replies or conversation | 83 | |
| 183197806 | dogmatic | certain of the truth of one's ideas onclined to state opinions as if they were indisputable facts | 84 | |
| 183197807 | apropos | appropriate, opprotune, prelevantly | 85 | |
| 183197808 | noxious | harmful to physical health or morals | 86 | |
| 183197809 | apogee | the point in which the orbit of a heavenly body or artificially satelite farthest from the earth | 87 | |
| 183197810 | unconscionable | not guided or restrained by conscious prudence or reason | 88 | |
| 183197811 | edify | to instruct in such a way as to encourage moral or spiritual development: to uplift | 89 | |
| 183197812 | necromacy | the art of conjuring up and communicating with the spirits of the dead | 90 | |
| 183197813 | probity | complete and confirmed honesty: total integrity | 91 | |
| 183197814 | licentious | morally or sexually unrestrained; having no regard for accepted rules customs or laws | 92 | |
| 183197815 | bicker | to engage in a petty or peevish dispute | 93 | |
| 183197816 | mete | to distribute or apportion as if by measure | 94 | |
| 183197817 | polemic | an argument designed to attack or refute a specific opinion or doctrine | 95 | |
| 183197818 | proscribe | to denounce or condemn as harmful or dangerous to prohibit or forbid to outlaw | 96 | |
| 183197819 | cull | to pick out or select | 97 | |
| 183197820 | coalesce | to bleand together or fuse so as to form one body or substance | 98 | |
| 183197821 | supervene | to take place or occur as something additional or unexpected to follow immediately after | 99 | |
| 183197822 | curmudgeon | an irascible churlish person | 100 | |
| 183197823 | beguile | to mislead or decieve to cheat | 101 | |
| 183197824 | complement | something that makes a whole: quanitity or number neededto make up whole | 102 | |
| 183197825 | disingenous | lacking in sincerity or candor; not straightforward | 103 | |
| 183197826 | adumbrate | to outline or sketch broadly: to foreshadow or prefigure | 104 | |
| 183197827 | apothesosis | the elevation or a person to divine rank o status ; the glorification of a person as an ideal | 105 | |
| 183197828 | contumacious | obstinately or willfully disoedient openly rebelious difficult to work with | 106 | |
| 183197829 | burgeon | to pull forth new buds or greenery | 107 | |
| 183197830 | disquisition | a formal discourse or treaty | 108 | |
| 183197831 | didactic | insturctive morally or ethically | 109 | |
| 183197832 | hauteur | haughtiness of bearing or attitude | 110 | |
| 183197833 | jeremiad | an elaborate or prolonged lamentation | 111 | |
| 183197834 | purport | the meaning or purpose of something to claim or profess to mean or imply | 112 | |
| 183197835 | faux pas | a slight slip in manners or conduct a social blunder | 113 | |
| 183197836 | opportunist | someone who makes a practice of taking advantage of circumstances to futher his or her own selfs intersts | 114 | |
| 183197837 | enjoin | to direct ororder: to prohibit or restrain | 115 | |
| 183197838 | fustian | inflated or pretentious language in speech or writing | 116 | |
| 183197839 | inhibit | to restrain or hold back to hinder or arrest to prohibit | 117 | |
| 183197840 | fulminate | to denounce or condemn vehementaly | 118 | |
| 183197841 | obsession | a persistent preoccupation woth an idea feeling or desire | 119 | |
| 183234408 | aphorism | a terse statement of known authorship that expresses a general truth or moral principle | 120 | |
| 183234409 | connotation | the nonliteral associative meaning of word the implied suggested meaning | 121 | |
| 183234410 | ambiguity | the multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional of a word phrase sentence or passage | 122 | |
| 183234411 | polysyndeton | addition of conjuctions in succesive words or clauses | 123 | |
| 183234412 | denotation | the strict literal dictionary definition of a word devoid of emotion attitude or color | 124 | |
| 183234413 | prose | one of the major divisions of gnre which includes fiction and non fiction | 125 | |
| 183234414 | asyndeton | the subtraction of conjuctions between words, phrasses or clauses | 126 | |
| 183234415 | rhetorical modes | this flexible term describes the variety the conventions and the purposes of the major kinds of righting exposition argumentation description narration | 127 | |
| 183234416 | anaphora | the repitition of the same word or words at the beginning of successive phrases clauses or sentences | 128 | |
| 183234417 | didactic | instructive in the way of ethics or morals | 129 | |
| 183234418 | conceit | a figure of speech which makes an unusual and sometimes elaborately sustained comparision between to dissimilar objects | 130 | |
| 183234419 | meiosis | a rhetorical figure by which something is referred to in terms less important than it deserves.....such as this fatal wound is jus a scratch | 131 | |
| 183234420 | ellipsis | three periods(....) which indicate the ommision of words or a thought or a quotation | 132 | |
| 183234421 | antithesis | a figure of speech involving a seeming contradiction of ideas words clauses or sentences within a balanced grammatical structure | 133 | |
| 183234422 | genre | the major catergory into which a literary work fits | 134 | |
| 183234423 | motif | a recurring important idea or image: differs from the theme in that it can be expressed as a single word or fragmentary phrase while a them usually is expressed as a completesentence | 135 | |
| 183234424 | zeugma | use of a word to modify or govern two or more words although its use only is grammatically correct with only one for ex: He caried a strobe light and the responsibility for the lives of his men. | 136 | |
| 183234425 | isocolon | a succession of phrases of approxiamately equal length and structure " The bigger they are, the harder they fall" | 137 | |
| 183234426 | logos | in classic rethoric, the means of persuasion by demostration of the truth, real or apparent | 138 | |
| 183234427 | trope | rhetorical device that produces a shift in the meanings of words- sixteenth - century rhetorician Peter Ramus identified four major tropes: metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony. | 139 | |
| 183234428 | pathos | means of persuasion in classical rethoric that appeals to the audience's emotions | 140 | |
| 183234429 | ethos | persuasion appeal based on the projected character of the speaker or narrator | 141 | |
| 183234430 | harmartia | a term coined by Aristotle to describe "some error or frality" that brings about misfortune for a tragic hero | 142 | |
| 183234431 | catharsis | meaning "purgation" this describes the release of the emotions of pity and fear by the audience at the end of a tragedy | 143 | |
| 183234432 | hubris | excessive pride or self confidence that leads a protagonist to disregard a divine warningor to violate an important moral law | 144 | |
| 183234433 | in media res | a term used to describe the common strategy of beggining a story in the middle of the action | 145 | |
| 183234434 | Bildingsroman | a german word means a novel of formation that is a novel of someone's gorwth from childhood to maturity | 146 | |
| 183234435 | elegy | poem dealing with the subject-matter common to the early greek and romans- complaints about love sustained formal lamentation or somber meditations | 147 | |
| 183234436 | epistolary | taking the form of a letter or actuallyconsisting of a letter written to another | 148 | |
| 183234437 | deductive | the process of logic in which a thinker takes a rule for a large general catergory and assumes that specific individual examples fitting within that general catergory obey the same rule | 149 | |
| 183234438 | epigraph | a quotation at the beginning of the poem short story book chapter or other piece of literature | 150 | |
| 183234439 | fallacy | an argument that isnt based on sound logic and doesnt logically follow | 151 | |
| 183234440 | syllogism | a form of deductive reasoning in which given certain ideas or facts other ideas or facts must follow | 152 | |
| 183234441 | maxim | a saying or proverb expressing common wisdom or truth | 153 | |
| 183234442 | idyll | a lyric poem or passage that describes an ideal place or life | 154 | |
| 183234443 | exegesis | a detailed analysis or interpretation of a work of pros or poetry | 155 | |
| 183234444 | archetype | an abstract or ideal conception of a type; a perfectly typical example: original odel or form | 156 | |
| 183234445 | bathos | insincere or overdone sentimentality | 157 | |
| 183234446 | versimilitude | similar to the truth: the qualify of realism in the work that persuades readers that they are getting a vision of life as it is | 158 | |
| 183234447 | anachronism | a person scene or other element that fails to correspond with an appropriate time or era | 159 | |
| 183234448 | non sequitur | a statement or idea that fails to follow logically from the one before | 160 | |
| 183234449 | wit | quickness of intellect and the power and talent for saying brilliant things that surprise and delight by there unexpectedness | 161 | |
| 183234450 | eponymous | a term for the title character of a work or literture (Hamlet) | 162 | |
| 183234451 | burlesque | a work of literature meant to ridicule a subject; a grotesque imitation | 163 | |
| 183234452 | bombastic | ostentatiously loftly in style | 164 | |
| 183234453 | stylistic devices | a general term referring to diction syntax tone figurative language and all other elements that contribute to the "style" or manner of a given piece of discourse | 165 | |
| 183234454 | cynic | a person who believes all people of motivated by selfishness. a person whos outlook is scornfully and habitually negative | 166 | |
| 183234455 | farce | a comedy that contains and extravagent and nonsensical disregard of seriouness although it may have a serious scornful purpose | 167 | |
| 183234456 | pun | a humorous play on words, using similar sounding or identical words to suggest different meanings | 168 | |
| 183234457 | loose sentence | a sentence that follow sthe customary word order of english sentences...subject/verb/object. the main idea of sentence is presented first and followed by one or more subordinate clauses | 169 | |
| 183234458 | voice | the real or assumed personality used by a writer or speaker | 170 | |
| 183234459 | epiphany | a sudden or intuitive insight or preception into the reality or central meaning of something usually ought on by a simple or common occurence | 171 | |
| 183234460 | expose | a piece of writing faults frailities or other shortcomings | 172 | |
| 183234461 | metacognition | monitoring your own thoughts as you encouter ideas and facts presented to you in written form | 173 | |
| 183234462 | epistrophe | the repition of a word or words as the end of two or more succcessive verses clauses or sentences | 174 | |
| 183234463 | anachronism | a person or scene or elemtn that fails to correspond with appropriate time or era | 175 | |
| 183234464 | antihero | a protagonist of literary work who does not embody the traditional qualities of a hero | 176 | |
| 183234465 | anotation | a brief explanation summary or evaluation of a text or work of literature | 177 | |
| 183234466 | doppelganger | ghostly counterpart of a living person or an alter ego | 178 | |
| 183234467 | coherence | quality of a piece of writing of which all the parts contribute to the development of the central idea theme or organizing principle | 179 | |
| 183234468 | aesthetic | pertaining to the value of art for its own sake or form | 180 | |
| 183234469 | imperative | a sentence or word that relays a command | 181 | |
| 183234470 | digression | the portion of discourse that wanders or departs from the main subject or topic | 182 |
