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| 9279585943 | Banal | Hackneyed, trite, commonplace | 0 | |
| 9279585944 | Belabor | To work on excessively; to thrash soundly | 1 | |
| 9279585945 | Emulate | To imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model | 2 | |
| 9279585946 | Eschew | To avoid, shun, keep away from | 3 | |
| 9279585947 | Tenable | Capable of being held or defended | 4 | |
| 9279585948 | Halcyon | A legendary bird identified with the kingfisher; calm, peaceful; happy, golden; prosperous, affluent | 5 | |
| 9279678113 | germane | relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting | 6 | |
| 9279678114 | Pejorative | Tending to make worse; expressing disapproval or disparagement, derogatory, deprecatory, belittling | 7 | |
| 9279678115 | undulate | to move in waves or with wavelike motion; to have a wavelike appearance or form | 8 | |
| 9279802040 | propriety | the state of being proper, appropriateness; standards of what is proper or socially acceptable | 9 | |
| 9279802041 | celerity | swiftness, rapidity of motion or action | 10 | |
| 9279802042 | histrionic | pertaining to actors and their techniques; theatrical, artificial; melodramatic | 11 | |
| 9279802043 | Verbiage | Language that is too wordy or inflated in proportion to the sense or content, wordiness; a manner of expression | 12 | |
| 9279802044 | verdant | green in tint or color; immature in experience or judgment | 13 | |
| 9279802045 | feckless | lacking in spirit and strength; ineffective, weak; irresponsible, unreliable | 14 | |
| 9279802046 | nefarious | wicked, depraved, devoid of moral standards | 15 | |
| 9279802047 | unwonted | not usual or expected; not in character | 16 | |
| 9279802048 | credence | belief, mental acceptance | 17 | |
| 9279802049 | exigency | urgency, pressure; urgent demand, pressing need; an emergency | 18 | |
| 9279802050 | pecuniary | consisting of or measured in money; of or related to money | 19 | |
| 9279802051 | pusillanimous | contemptibly cowardly or mean-spirited | 20 | |
| 9279802052 | frenetic | frenzied, highly agitated | 21 | |
| 9279802053 | glean | to gather bit by bit; to gather small quantities of grain left in a field by the reapers | 22 | |
| 9279802054 | recumbent | in a reclining position, lying down, in the posture of one sleeping or resting | 23 | |
| 9279802055 | esoteric | intended for or understood by only a select few, private, secret | 24 | |
| 9279802056 | fecund | fruitful in offspring or vegetation; intellectually productive | 25 | |
| 9279802057 | ignominy | Shame or dishonor; a disgraceful act or conduct | 26 | |
| 9279802058 | mundane | earthly, worldly, relating to practical and material affairs; concerned with what is ordinary | 27 | |
| 9279802059 | ubiquitous | present or existing everywhere | 28 | |
| 9279802060 | enervate | to weaken or lessen the mental, moral, or physical vigor of; enfeeble, hamstring | 29 | |
| 9279802061 | complicity | involvement in wrongdoing; the state of being an accomplice | 30 | |
| 9281665773 | indubitable | certain, not to be doubted or denied | 31 | |
| 9281665774 | Moot | open to discussion and debate, unresolved; to bring up for discussion; a hypothetical law case argued by students | 32 | |
| 9281665775 | neophyte | a new convert, beginner, novice | 33 | |
| 9281665776 | inane | silly, empty of meaning or value | 34 | |
| 9281665777 | intermittent | stopping and beginning again, sporadic | 35 | |
| 9281665778 | Ambiguity | a vagueness of meaning; a conscious lack of clarity meant to evoke multiple meanings and interpretation | 36 | |
| 9281665779 | Allusion | A reference to another work of literature, person, or event meant to create an effect or enhance the meaning of an idea | 37 | |
| 9281665780 | Allegory | A story in which a second meaning is to be read beneath the surface | 38 | |
| 9281665781 | Alliteration | the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words or lines in a poem | 39 | |
| 9281665782 | Anaphora | the repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of a series of phrases, clauses, or sentences | 40 | |
| 9282211344 | Anastrophe | the inversion of the usual order of words or clauses | 41 | |
| 9282211345 | anecdote | short account of an amusing or interesting event | 42 | |
| 9282211346 | Antimetabole | The repetition of words in an inverted order to sharpen a contrast. | 43 | |
| 9282211347 | Antithesis | A rhetorical opposition or contrast of ideas by means of a grammatical arrangement of words | 44 | |
| 9282211348 | Apostrophe | A locution that addresses a person or personified thing not present | 45 | |
| 9282211349 | Assosance | The repetition of two or more vowel sounds in a group of words or lines of a poem | 46 | |
| 9282211350 | Asyndeton | Omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words | 47 | |
| 9282211351 | Chiasmus | two corresponding pairs arranged not in parallels (a-b-a-b) but in inverted order (a-b-b-a) | 48 | |
| 9282532063 | Conceit | A witty or ingenious thought; a diverting or highly fanciful idea, often stated in figurative language | 49 | |
| 9282532064 | Connotation | The suggested or implied meaning of a word or phrase | 50 | |
| 9282532065 | Dialect | the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people | 51 | |
| 9282532066 | Caesura | A pause somewhere in the middle of a verse, often marked by punctuation | 52 | |
| 9282532067 | Consonance | repetition of two or more consonant sounds within a line | 53 | |
| 9282532068 | Diction | A writer's or speaker's choice of words | 54 | |
| 9282532069 | didactic | instructive | 55 | |
| 9282532070 | Epanalepsis | repetition at the end of a clause of the word that occurred at the beginning | 56 | |
| 9282532071 | Episteophe | The repetition of the same word or words at the end of successive phrases or clauses | 57 | |
| 9282532072 | epithet | an adjective or phrase that expresses a striking quality of a person or thing | 58 | |
| 9282532073 | Enjambment | In poetry, the use of successive lines with no punctuation or pause between them | 59 | |
| 9282532074 | Inversion | Inverted order of words in a sentence | 60 | |
| 9282532075 | verbal irony | A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant | 61 | |
| 9282532076 | situational irony | what actually happens is the opposite of what is expected or appropriate | 62 | |
| 9282532077 | dramatic irony | when the audience knows something the characters do not | 63 | |
| 9282532078 | Juxtaposition | A place by side in order to show similarities or differences | 64 | |
| 9282532079 | Litotes | A form of understatement in which the negative of the contrary is used to achieve emphasis of intensity | 65 | |
| 9282532080 | Metonymy | A figure of speech that users the name of one thing to represent something else with which t is associated | 66 | |
| 9282532081 | Motif | A phrase, idea, or event that through repetition serves to unify or convey a theme | 67 | |
| 9282532082 | parody | an imitation of a work meant to ridicule its style and subject | 68 | |
| 9282532083 | Polysyndeton | The use of conjunctions between each word, phrase, or clause | 69 | |
| 9282532084 | rhetorical question | a question asked for an effect, not actually requiring an answer | 70 | |
| 9282532085 | Synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part is substituted for the whole. | 71 | |
| 9282532086 | Understatement | A statement that says less than what is meant | 72 | |
| 9282532087 | rhyme scheme | the pattern of rhyme in a poem | 73 | |
| 9282532088 | Slant/near/approximate rhyme | The words sound close but are not exact rhymes | 74 | |
| 9282532089 | free verse | Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme | 75 | |
| 9282532090 | blank verse | Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter | 76 | |
| 9282532091 | Stanza | A group of two or more lines that form a unit in a poem | 77 | |
| 9282532092 | Metaphor | figure of speech comparing two different things | 78 | |
| 9282532093 | Simile | A comparison using "like" or "as" | 79 | |
| 9282532094 | Symbol | A thing, person, or idea that stands for something else | 80 | |
| 9282532095 | Personification | A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes | 81 | |
| 9282532096 | Oxymoron | a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction | 82 | |
| 9282532097 | Hyperbole | Overstatement; gross exaggeration for rhetorical effect | 83 | |
| 9282532098 | Tone | Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character | 84 | |
| 9282532099 | lyric poem | a poem that does not tell a story but expresses the personal feelings or thoughts of a speaker | 85 | |
| 9282532100 | Ballad | A simple narrative verse that tells a story that is sung or recited | 86 | |
| 9282532101 | elegy | A poem or prose selection that laments or mediates on the passing or death of something or someone of value | 87 | |
| 9282532102 | Ode | A lyrical poem usually marked by serious, respectful, and exalted feelings toward the subject | 88 | |
| 9282532103 | Sonnet | a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme | 89 | |
| 9282532104 | Ethos | credibility or an ethical appeal which involves persuasion by the character involved. | 90 | |
| 9282532105 | Logos | an appeal based on logic or reason | 91 | |
| 9282532106 | Pathos | Emotional appeal | 92 | |
| 9282532107 | logical fallacy | faulty reasoning | 93 | |
| 9282532108 | Syntax | The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language. | 94 | |
| 9282532109 | parallelism/parallel structure | the repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures | 95 |
