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| 72940366 | Apostate | one who forsakes his religion or party | |
| 72940367 | Gothic | Characterized by or emhasizing a gloomy setting and grotesque or violent events | |
| 72940368 | Consensus | collective or general aggrement of an opinion, feeling or thinking | |
| 72940369 | Laberinth | A bewildering maze | |
| 72940370 | Effusive | highly demonstrative; unrestrained | |
| 72940371 | quixotic | extravagantly or romantically idealistic | |
| 72940372 | tangetial | Only sligtly connected; only superficially relevant | |
| 72940373 | bravado | display of false or assumed courage | |
| 72940374 | redundant | superfluous; needlessly repetitive | |
| 72940375 | Euphoria | a feeling of great happiness or well-being | |
| 72940376 | impasse | a dead end; point from which there is no escape | |
| 72940377 | calumny | a false and malicious statement made to injure someone's reputation or character | |
| 72940378 | dichotomy | division into two contradictory parts | |
| 72940379 | mystique | the framework of ideas or beliefs constructed around a person or thing which confers upon hom or its profound meaning | |
| 72940380 | non sequitur | any inference or conclusion which does not follow logically from the facts or premisis | |
| 72940381 | sine qua non | an essential or indispensable elemnt or condition | |
| 72940382 | plebeian | of, belonging to common people or the lower classes | |
| 72940383 | propitious | favorable, indicative of favor, good results or a happy outcome | |
| 72940384 | lugubrious | sad, mournful or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree | |
| 72940385 | metamorphosis | a complete transformation, as if by magic | |
| 72940386 | constrict | to make smaller or narrower, draw together | |
| 72940387 | reconteur | someone skilled at telling stories | |
| 72940388 | vendetta | a feud in which members of the opposing parties murder each other | |
| 72940389 | quagmire | a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot | |
| 72940390 | parlous | full of danger or risk, perilous | |
| 72940391 | punctilio | a minute detail of conduct or procedure; an instant of time | |
| 72945548 | viable | capable of life or normal growth and development | |
| 72945549 | vacuous | devoid of significance or point | |
| 72945550 | narcissism | excessive love of one's body or oneself | |
| 72945551 | charisma | personal appeal or attraction; magnetism | |
| 72945552 | precarious | dangerous, risky, not a secure situation | |
| 72945553 | niggardly | stingy; meanly small or insufficient | |
| 72945554 | execrable | utterly detestable, hateful, or abhorrent; extremely inferior | |
| 72945555 | utilitarian | stressing practicality over other considerations; relating to the belief that what is good or desirable is determined purely by its usefulness | |
| 72945556 | zany | clownish or funny in a crazy, bizarre, or ludicrous way; one who plays the clown | |
| 72945557 | xenophobia | undue or unreasonable fear, hatred, or contempt of foreigners or strangers or of what is foreign or strange | |
| 72945558 | pastiche | a dramatic, musical, or literary work made up of bits and pieces from other sources; a hodgepodge | |
| 72945559 | augur | a prophet or seer; to predict, foreshadow | |
| 72945560 | vagary | an unpredictable, erratic, or seemingly purposeless action, occurrence, or notion | |
| 72945561 | rapport | a close and harmonious relationship | |
| 72945562 | raconteur | a person skilled in telling anecdotes | |
| 72945563 | zealot | a fanancial partisan | |
| 72945564 | apposite | appropriate | |
| 72945565 | impinge | to strike against or collide with violently; to encroach or obtrude upon; to make an impression upon | |
| 72945566 | bilk | to defraud, cheat, or swindle; to evade payment of; to frustrate, thwart | |
| 72945567 | debilitate | to make weak or feeble | |
| 72949239 | clairvoyant | having the ability to see beyond the range of ordinary perception | |
| 72949240 | immaculate | spotless; flawless; absolutely clean | |
| 72949241 | bromide | a trite or commonplace remark | |
| 72949242 | acerbity | soruness or bitterness of taste | |
| 72949243 | ineluctable | not able to be avoided | |
| 72949244 | vestigial | visible or existing only in a rudimentary or greatly degenerated state | |
| 72949245 | resplendent | shining or gleaming brilliantly | |
| 72949246 | accolade | praise or aproval | |
| 72949247 | mercurial | characterized by rapid and unpredictable changes of mood | |
| 72949248 | imprecation | a curse | |
| 72949249 | empathy | the ability to enter into or experience another person's actions | |
| 72949250 | factionalism | partly strife and intrigue | |
| 72949251 | chauvinist | extravagantly patriotic | |
| 72949252 | attrition | the process of wearing down by friction or gradual impairment | |
| 72949253 | volition | the power to choose | |
| 72949254 | vainglory | excessive pride in and boastfulness about one's own | |
| 72949255 | sub rosa | in secret | |
| 72949256 | stigmatize | to brand or mark out as in some way discreditable | |
| 72949257 | palliate | to make less serious or sever by glossing over | |
| 72949258 | protocol | customs and regulations dealing with official behavior and etiquette | |
| 72974246 | contretemps | an inopportune or embarrasing occurence | |
| 72974247 | disparate | completely distinct or different | |
| 72974248 | convolution | a rolling up, coiling or twisting together | |
| 72974249 | repartee | a swift witty reply | |
| 72974250 | dogmatic | certain of the truth of one's ideas | |
| 72974251 | Apropos | appropriate, opportune | |
| 72974252 | noxious | harmfull to physical health | |
| 72974253 | apogee | the point in the orbit of heavenly body or artificial setelite fartherst from the earth | |
| 72974254 | unconscionable | not guided or restrained by conscious,prudence or reason | |
| 72974255 | edify | to instruct in such a way as to encourage moral and spiritual development | |
| 72974256 | necromancy | communication with the spirits of the dead | |
| 72974257 | probity | complete and confirmed honesty | |
| 72974258 | licentious | morally or sexually unrestrained | |
| 72974259 | bicker | to engage in a petty or peevish dispute | |
| 72974260 | mete | to distribute or apportion as if by measure | |
| 72974261 | polemic | an argument designed to attach or refute a specific opinion | |
| 72974262 | proscribe | to denounce or condemn as harmful or dangerous | |
| 72974263 | cull | to pick out select, to gather | |
| 72974264 | coalesce | to blend together or fuse so as to form one body | |
| 72974265 | supervene | to take place or occur as something additional or unexpected | |
| 72976988 | curmudgeon | an irascible, churlish person | |
| 72976989 | beguile | to mislead or decieve; to cheat | |
| 72976990 | complement | something that completes the whole | |
| 72976991 | disingenuous | lacking in sincerity or candor; not straight forward | |
| 72976992 | adumbrate | to outline or sketch broadly | |
| 72976993 | apotheosis | the elevation of a person to divine rank or status | |
| 72976994 | contumacious | abstinently or willfully disobedient; openly rebellious | |
| 72976995 | burgeon | to put forth new buds or greenery; develop rapidly | |
| 72976996 | disquisition | formal discourse or treatise | |
| 72976997 | didactic | intended to instruct, typically in a moral way | |
| 72976998 | hauteur | haughtiness of bearing or attitude | |
| 72976999 | jeremiad | an elaborate or prolonged lamentation | |
| 72977000 | purport | the meaning or purpose of something | |
| 72977001 | faux pas | slight slip in manners; social blunder | |
| 72977002 | opportunist | someone who makes a practice of taking advantage of circumstances to further his or her own self interest | |
| 72977003 | enjoin | to direct or order | |
| 72977004 | fustain | inflated or pretentious language in speech or writting | |
| 72977005 | inhibit | to restrain or hold back; hinder | |
| 72977006 | fulminate | to denounce or condemn vehemently | |
| 72977007 | obsession | a persistent preoccupation with an idea, feeling, or desire. | |
| 72980571 | invective | an emotionally violent, verbal denunciation or attack using strong, abusive language. | |
| 72980572 | antecedent | the word, phrase or clause referred to by a pronoun | |
| 72980573 | pedantic | an adjective that describes words, phrases or general tone that is overly scholarly, academic, or bookish | |
| 72980574 | syntax | th way the author chooses to join words into phrases, clauses and sentences | |
| 72980575 | chiasmus | a figure of speech based on inverted parallelism | |
| 72980576 | allegory | device of using character and/or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning. | |
| 72980577 | personification | figure of speech in which the author presents or describes concepts, animals, or inanimate objects by endowing them with human attributes or emotions | |
| 72980578 | Predicate Nominative | a noun, group of nouns, or noun clause that renames the subject | |
| 72980579 | oxymoron | an author groups apparently contradictory terms to suggest a paradox | |
| 72980580 | colloquialism | slang or informality in speech or writing | |
| 72980581 | litotes | figure of speech by which an affirmation is made indirectly by denying its opposite. | |
| 72980582 | transition | word or phrase that links different ideas | |
| 72980583 | ad hominem argument | From the Latin meaning "to or against the man," this is an argument that appeals to emotion rather than reason, to feeling rather than intellect | |
| 72980584 | parody | a work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect and/or ridicule | |
| 72986063 | aphorism | terse statement of known suthorship that expresses a genereal trutho r moral principle | |
| 72986064 | connotation | the nonliteral, associative meaning of a word, the implied | |
| 72986065 | ambiguity | the multiple meanings ,either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage. | |
| 72986066 | polysyndeton | Figure of addition and emphasis which intentionally employs a series of conjunctions (and, or, but, for, nor, so, yet) not normally found in successive words, phrases, or clauses; the deliberate and excessive use of conjunctions in successive words or clauses | |
| 72986067 | denotation | the strict, literal meaning of a word | |
| 72986068 | prose | one of the major divisions of genre | |
| 72986069 | asyndeton | consist of omiting conjunctions between words, phrases or clauses | |
| 72986070 | rhetorical modes | this flexible term describes the variety, the conventions, and the purposes of the major kinds of writing. | |
| 72986071 | anaphora | the repetition of th same word or words at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses or sentences | |
| 72986072 | didactic | instructive | |
| 72986073 | conceit | figure of speech which makes an unusual and sometimes elaborately sustained comparison between two dissimilar things | |
| 72986074 | meiosis | rhetorical figure by which something is referred to in terms less important than it really deserves.(understatement) | |
| 72986075 | ellipsis | ... | |
| 72986076 | antithesis | FOS involving a seeming cotradiction of words, ideas, clauses, or sentences within a balanced grammatical structure. | |
| 72986077 | genre | major category into which a literary work fits. | |
| 72989908 | motif | recurring important idea or image; | |
| 72989909 | zeugma | use of a word to modify or govern two or more words although its use is grammatically or logically correct with only one. | |
| 72989910 | isocolon | succession of phrases of approximately equal length and corresponding structure | |
| 72989911 | logos | persuasion by demonstration of truth, real, or apparent | |
| 72989912 | trope | produces a shift in th meaning of words | |
| 72989913 | pathos | persuasion by emotion | |
| 72989914 | ethos | persuasion by ethics | |
| 72989915 | hamartia | describes some error or frailty that brings about misfortune for a tragic hero | |
| 72989916 | catharsis | release of emotions of pity and fear by the audience at the end of a tragedy | |
| 72989917 | hubris | excessive pride or self-confidence | |
| 72989918 | in medias res | beggining a story in the middle of the action | |
| 72989919 | bildungsroman | novel of someone's growth from childhood to maturity | |
| 72989920 | elegy | poem dealing with with complaints about love, lamentation or somber mediations | |
| 72989921 | epistolary | taking the form of a letter, or actually consisting of a letter written to another | |
| 72989922 | deductive | the process of logic in which a thinker takes a rule for a large, general category and assumes that specific individual examples fitting within that general category obey the same rule | |
| 72989923 | epigraph | quotations at the beginning of a poem, short story or book chapter | |
| 72989924 | fallacy | argument that isn't based on sound logic and doesn't logically flow. | |
| 72994278 | syllogism | form of decutive reasoning which given certain ideas or facts, other ideas or facts must follow (linear thinking) | |
| 72994279 | Maxim | saying or proverb expressing common wisdom or truth | |
| 72994280 | idyll | lyric porm or passage that describes a kind of ideal life or place | |
| 72994281 | exegesis | detailed nalaysis or interpretation of a work of prose or poestry | |
| 72994282 | archetype | abstract or ideal conception of a type; example | |
| 72994283 | bathos | insincere or overdone pathos | |
| 72994284 | verisimilitude | similar to th truth the quality of realism in a work that persuades readers that they are getting a vision of life as it is | |
| 72994285 | anachronism | element that fails to correspond to the correct time scene | |
| 72994286 | non sequitur | statement or idea that fails to follow logically from teh one before | |
| 72994287 | wit | quickness of intellect and the power and talent for saying brilliant things that surprise and delight their unexpectedness | |
| 72994288 | eponymous | a term for the title character of a work of literature | |
| 72994289 | burlesque | a work of literature meant to ridicule a subject; grotesque imitation | |
| 72994290 | bombastic | ostentationsly lofty in style | |
| 72994291 | stylistic devices | a general term referring to diction, syntax, tone or figurative language | |
| 72994292 | cynic | person who believes all people are motived by selfishness | |
| 72994293 | farce | comedy that contains an extravagant and nonsensical disregard of seriousness, though it may have a serious purpose | |
| 72994294 | pun | humorous play on words | |
| 72995783 | loose sentence | sentence that follows customary word order of english sentences | |
| 72995784 | voice | real or assumed personality used by a writer or speaker | |
| 72995785 | epiphany | sudden intuitive insight or perception into the reality or essential meaning of something | |
| 72995786 | pathetic fallacy | faulty reasoning that inappropriately ascribes himan feelings to nature or nonhuman objects | |
| 72995787 | expose | piece of writting that reveals weaknesses | |
| 72995788 | metacognition | monitoring ones own thoughts | |
| 72995789 | epistrophe | the repetition of word or words as the end of two or more successie verses, clauses or sentences | |
| 72995790 | antihero | rotagonist of a literary work who does not embody the traditional qualities of a hero | |
| 72995791 | annotation | brief summary or evaluation of a text or work of literature | |
| 72995792 | doppelganger | ghostly counterpart of a living person or an alter ego | |
| 72995793 | coherence | quality of a piece of writting in which all the parts contribute to the development of the central idea | |
| 72995794 | aesthetic | pertaining to the value of art for its own sake or form | |
| 72995795 | imperative | sentence that relays a command | |
| 72995796 | digression | the portion of discourse that wanders or departs from the main subjects or topic |
