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AP English Vocab - Examples

The examples for each of the words.

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The Crucible, the witch trials = McCarthyism
I've been stressed, distressed, beat down, beat up, held down, held up, conditioned, reconditioned.
And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.
A Daniel come to judgment (Shakespeare)
Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice, moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. (Barry Goldwater)
Brutus: Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more. (Shakespeare)
Judge, O ye gods, how dearly Caesar loved him (Shakespeare)
a diamond as big as the Ritz
I never shall be chaste except you ravish me - Donne
Is it wise to hug misery, to make a song of Melancholy, to weave a garland of sighs, to abandon hope wholly?
We went to parlay with you and your grisly gang who work your wicked will. (Churchill)
I knew a woman, lovely in her bones, when small birds sighed, she would sigh back at them (Roethke)
He is a man of the cloth.
Men in great places are thrice servants; servants of the sovereign or state; servants of fame; and servants of business.
We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence.
The helmsman steered; the ship moved on; yet never a breeze up blew.
The cars do not sell because the engineering is inferior, the quality of materials is inferior, and the workshop is inferior.
In 1931, ten years ago, Japan invaded Manchukuoo - without warning. In 1935, Italy invaded Ethiopia - without warning. In 1938, Hitler occupied Austria - without warning. In 1939, Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia - without warning.
Give us this day our daily bread ( food)
I'm getting a new set of wheels (automobile)
You are going to be in trouble, trouble.
Our eyes saw it, but we could not believe our eyes.
You can stake the boy out of the country, but you can't take the country out of the boy.
The poet says we milestone our lives.
When the Little Leaguers lost, they needed just to have a good cry.
Her performance ran the gamut of emotion from A to B; As the principle dancer, she displayed only two flaws, his arms and his legs.

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