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| 7394362029 | TRENCHANT (TREN chunt) | cutting, incisive, having a sharp point; caustic, sarcastic | 0 | |
| 7394362030 | PROCRASTINATE (PRO cras tuh nate) | to put off until a later time | 1 | |
| 7394362031 | QUIXOTIC (kwik SAHT ik) | idealistic and totally impractical | 2 | |
| 7394362032 | IMPEDE (im PEED) | to obstruct or interfere with; to delay | 3 | |
| 7394362033 | FORBEAR (for BAYR) | to refrain from; to abstain; to be patient or tolerant | 4 | |
| 7394362034 | MIGRATORY ( MIE gra tory) | roving, wandering, nomadic | 5 | |
| 7394362035 | EVADE (ee VADE) | to elude or avoid by cunning; to flee from pursuer | 6 | |
| 7394362036 | EFFACE (uh FACE) | to rub away | 7 | |
| 7394362037 | ASUNDER (uh SUN dur) | in separate parts; apart from each other in position | 8 | |
| 7394362038 | INCITE (en SIGHT) | to arouse to action | 9 | |
| 7394362039 | Iambic pentameter | Each line of verse has five feet (pentameter), each of which consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable (iamb). Iambic pentameter is one of the most popular metrical schemes in English poetry. | 10 | |
| 7394362040 | Blank verse | Unrhymed iambic pentameter. Blank verse bears a close resemblance to the rhythms of ordinary speech, giving poetry a natural feel. Shakespeare's plays are written primarily in blank verse. | 11 | |
| 7394362041 | Ballad | Alternating tetrameter and trimeter, usually iambic and rhyming. Ex: Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." | 12 | |
| 7394362042 | Free verse | Verse that does not conform to any fixed meter or rhyme scheme. Free verse is not, however, loose or unrestricted: its rules of composition are as strict and difficult as traditional verse, for they rely on less evident rhythmic patterns to give the poem shape. Ex: Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass | 13 | |
| 7394362043 | Foot | the basic rhythmic unit into which a line of verse can be divided | 14 | |
| 7394362044 | Iamb | An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable: "to day " | 15 | |
| 7394362045 | Trochee | A stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable: " car ry" | 16 | |
| 7394362046 | Dactyl | A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables: " diff icult" | 17 | |
| 7394362047 | Anapest | Two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable: "it is time " | 18 | |
| 7394362048 | Spondee | Two successive syllables with strong stresses: "stop, thief" | 19 | |
| 7394362049 | Pyrrhic | Two successive syllables with light stresses: "up to" | 20 |
