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| 5898314339 | Akin | (adj.) related by blood; having similar qualities or character | 0 | |
| 5898316613 | Corroborate | (v.) to confirm, make more certain, bolster, substantiate, verify | 1 | |
| 5898319546 | Inexorable | (adj.) inflexible, beyond influence; relentless, unyielding | 2 | |
| 5898325101 | Insipid | (adj.) Uninteresting; having no flavor | 3 | |
| 5898329420 | Nefarious | (adj.) wicked, depraved, devoid of moral standards | 4 | |
| 5898335503 | Physiognamy | (noun) a person's facial features or expression, especially when regarded as indicative of character or ethnic origin | 5 | |
| 5898340491 | Retinue | (noun) a group that attends an important person | 6 | |
| 5898346428 | Suppliant | (adj.) asking humbly and earnestly; (noun) one who makes a request humbly and earnestly, a petitioner, suitor | 7 | |
| 5898349745 | Tedium | (noun) dullness; monotony; boredom | 8 | |
| 5898352065 | Torrid | (adj.) very hot, parching, burning; passionate | 9 | |
| 5898356098 | Affront | (noun) an open or intentional insult; a slight; (v.) to insult to one's face; to face in defiance , confront | 10 | |
| 5898360984 | Blase | (adj.) indifferent, bored as a result of having enjoyed many pleasures; apathetic | 11 | |
| 5898365343 | Cajole | (v.) to coax, persuade through flattery or artifice; to deceive with soothing thoughts or false promises | 12 | |
| 5898367765 | Choleric | (adj.) easily made angry, bad-tempered | 13 | |
| 5898369724 | Encumber | (v.) to weigh down or burden (with difficulties, cares, debt, etc.); to fill up, block up, hinder | 14 | |
| 5898371861 | Feckless | (adj.) lacking in spirit and strength; ineffective, weak; irresponsible, unreliable | 15 | |
| 5898375463 | Impasse | (noun) a deadlock; stalemate; failure to reach an agreement | 16 | |
| 5898382892 | Indolent | (adj.) lazy | 17 | |
| 5898387104 | Lugubrious | (adj.) Looking or sounding sad and dismal | 18 | |
| 5898392012 | Ribald | (adj.) coarsely, crudely humorous | 19 | |
| 5898398305 | Parallel Structure | the repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures | 20 | |
| 5898403420 | Chiasmus | a rhetorical or literary figure in which words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order, in the same or a modified form | 21 | |
| 5898420176 | Polysyndeton | The deliberate use of a series of conjunctions | 22 | |
| 5898429053 | Asyndeton | A construction in which elements are presented in a series without conjunctions | 23 | |
| 5898430788 | Syllepsis | A word (usually a verb) which, when applied to different direct objects, takes on two different meanings | 24 | |
| 5898438074 | Compound Sentence | A sentence with two or more coordinate independent clauses, often joined by one or more conjunctions. | 25 | |
| 5898442829 | Simple Sentence | A sentence consisting of one independent clause and no dependent clause | 26 | |
| 5898447719 | Complex Sentence | A sentence with one independent clause and at least one dependent clause | 27 | |
| 5898450301 | Compound-complex sentence | contains two or more independent clauses and at least one subordinate clause | 28 | |
| 5898453199 | Periodic Sentence | A sentence that presents its central meaning in a main clause at the end. | 29 | |
| 5898463299 | Loose Sentence | A complex sentence in which the main clause comes first and the subordinate clause follows | 30 | |
| 5898476382 | Connotation | All the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests | 31 | |
| 5898476383 | Denotation | The dictionary definition of a word | 32 | |
| 5898477930 | Jargon | Special words or expressions that are used by a particular profession or group and are difficult for others to understand | 33 | |
| 5898480710 | Colloquailism | a word or phrase in everyday use in conversation and informal writing but is inappropriate for formal situations (ex. he's out of his head) | 34 | |
| 5898482657 | Vernacular | The language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region | 35 | |
| 5898488578 | Anaphora | A rhetorical figure of repetition in which the same word or phrase is repeated in (and usually at the beginning of) successive lines, clauses, or sentences. | 36 | |
| 5898491001 | Epistrophe | The repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences | 37 | |
| 5898492540 | Refrain | A line or set of lines repeated several times over the course of a poem. | 38 | |
| 5898495837 | Alliteration | It is a stylistic device in which a number of words, having the same first consonant sound, occur close together in a series. | 39 | |
| 5898497464 | Assonance | Repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity | 40 | |
| 5898499467 | Consonance | Repetition of a consonant sound within two or more words in close proximity. | 41 | |
| 5898503271 | End Rhyme | A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line | 42 | |
| 5898505664 | Slant Rhyme | Words that end in similar but not exact sounds | 43 | |
| 5898507358 | Internal rhyme | A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line | 44 | |
| 5898507359 | Conceit | An extended metaphor | 45 | |
| 5898509650 | Metonymy | A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it | 46 | |
| 5898514254 | Synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part is substituted for the whole. | 47 | |
| 5898516075 | Round character | A character who demonstrates some complexity and who develops or changes in the course of a work | 48 | |
| 5898518916 | Flat character | A character who embodies a single quality and who does not develop in the course of a story | 49 | |
| 5898520715 | Dynamic character | A character who grows, learns, or changes as a result of the story's action | 50 | |
| 5898522042 | Static character | A character that does not change from the beginning of the story to the end | 51 | |
| 5898522043 | Foil | A character who is in most ways opposite to the main character (protagonist) or one who is nearly the same as the protagonist. The purpose of the foil character is to emphasize the traits of the main character by contrast only | 52 | |
| 5898523660 | Tragic hero | A literary character who makes an error of judgment or has a fatal flaw that, combined with fate and external forces, brings on a tragedy | 53 | |
| 5898525696 | Archetype | A very typical example of a certain person or thing | 54 | |
| 5898527656 | Solecism | grammatical mistake | 55 | |
| 5898531512 | Malapropism | a word humorously misused | 56 | |
| 5898534116 | Tautology | unnecessary repetition | 57 |
