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| 2420921812 | Anaphora | The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive lines | 0 | |
| 2420923526 | Ambivalent | Uncertain which side to choose | 1 | |
| 2420925867 | Surreptitiously | To do something sneakily (mostly to avoid scandal) | 2 | |
| 2420929527 | Admonition | Warning or lesson to remember | 3 | |
| 2420932552 | Supercilious | Haughty, prideful, arrogant | 4 | |
| 2420933337 | Elegiac | Sorrowful, having mournful quality | 5 | |
| 2420936281 | Denigrate | Minimize or slander importance | 6 | |
| 2421073423 | Colloquial | Informal language not used in academic writing | 7 | |
| 2421073424 | Didactic | Speech intended to teach others | 8 | |
| 2421074180 | Equivocal | To accept both opinions during an argument | 9 | |
| 2421075403 | Vacillate | To waver between opinions | 10 | |
| 2421075404 | Antiquity | The quality of old age | 11 | |
| 2421076578 | Tercet Stanzas | Three lines in a stanza | 12 | |
| 2421076579 | Rapturous | An expression of pure joy | 13 | |
| 2421077580 | Tactile Imagery | Imagery of the sense of touch | 14 | |
| 2421077581 | Antithesis | Something that is a direct opposite to something else | 15 | |
| 2421077582 | Refrains | Repetition of the lines in a poem | 16 | |
| 2421078829 | Enjambment | The run on of a thought from one line to the next | 17 | |
| 2421078830 | Juxtapose | Things put close together for contrast | 18 | |
| 2421081542 | Abject | Miserable, without hope | 19 | |
| 2421082249 | Despondent | Depressed | 20 | |
| 2421083067 | Mendacious | Untruthful | 21 | |
| 2421083965 | Pompous | Overly self-important speech and manner | 22 | |
| 2421086029 | Idiosyncratic | Peculiar and eccentric | 23 | |
| 2421088502 | Ubiquitous | Being present amongst everyone | 24 | |
| 2421090854 | Dearth | An insufficient quantity or number | 25 | |
| 2421093345 | Pragmatic | Concerned with practical matters | 26 | |
| 2421095019 | Usurp | To seize control of something in a violent way | 27 | |
| 2421097011 | Consecrate | Dedicate to a particular purpose or service | 28 | |
| 2421098620 | Unscrupulous | Not honest or fair. Also a lack of attention to detail | 29 | |
| 2421100190 | Rapaciousness | Always wanting more money, or more than deserved | 30 | |
| 2453759925 | Pagan | Not religious compared to the generally accepted religion | 31 | |
| 2453872071 | Vicar | Representative of a bishop | 32 | |
| 2453874643 | Capricious | A sudden change in mood or behavior | 33 | |
| 2453878669 | Complacency | Self-satisfaction | 34 | |
| 2453880494 | Pious | Devoted to religion | 35 | |
| 2453885203 | Ascetic | Severe self-discipline and abstinence from luxury | 36 | |
| 2453889837 | Euphemism | To say something in a kind way (sometimes kinder than warranted) | 37 | |
| 2453892541 | Pedantic | Overly concerned with facts | 38 | |
| 2453895118 | Grandiloquently | To be said or expressed pompously | 39 | |
| 2453905984 | Dispensation | Special rule or order for one person or simply the general rules of the time | 40 | |
| 2496167436 | Frenetic | Energetic and uncontrolled | 41 | |
| 2496168279 | Non Sequitur | When one idea does not follow. When there is a break in reasoning. | 42 | |
| 2496170365 | Tumultuous | Loud and confused noisemaking | 43 | |
| 2496174452 | Obsolescence | Becoming unimportant or obsolete | 44 | |
| 2496176186 | Knell | A funeral bell ringing | 45 | |
| 2496177501 | Sestina | A poem of six six-line stanzas and a final triplet | 46 | |
| 2500238551 | Blank Verse | Unrhymed iambic pentameter (like Shakespeare) | 47 | |
| 2500241665 | Caesura | A pause within a line of poetry. This can be a pause in thought, or an inserted exclamation point, etc. | 48 | |
| 2500249342 | Free Verse | When there is no rhyme or rhythm to a poem | 49 | |
| 2500254931 | Metonymy | Using another thing to represent what you are really talking about ('the pen is mightier than the sword' or 'the crown' for royalty) | 50 | |
| 2500262718 | Soliloquy | A speech given when no other character is onstage (given to the audience) | 51 | |
| 2500264506 | Apostrophe | When a speech is given to someone not present | 52 |
