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| removed or disassociated from. (friends, family, or homeland) Ex: Rudolph felt ____ from the other reindeer because they never let him join in their reindeer games. | ||
| not applied to actual objects. Ex: "Justice" is an ____ concept because it is merely an idea. | ||
| something out of place in time or sequence. Ex: Jill was something of an _____; she insisted on carrying a parasol when going out in the sun and believed that a woman's place was at home in the kitchen with the children. | ||
| the attribution of humanlike characteristics to inanimate objects, animals, or forces of nature. Ex: Beatrix Potter is known for her children's books filled with _____; Peter Rabbit, Squirrel Nutkin, and Samuel Whiskers were all animal characters with very human qualities. | ||
| defense of an idea. Ex: Du Belly wrote an _____ in which he justified the use of French in place of Latin. | ||
| equipments; a group of machines. Ex: The storeroom behind the physics lab was filled with a cumbersome _____ that has since been replaced by a much smaller and more accurate piece of equipment. | ||
| a grammar construction in which a noun (or noun phrase) is placed with another as an explanation. Ex: My grandmother, a fine woman of 83, enjoys riding her motorcycle at high speeds in heavy traffic on Highway 280. | ||
| a perfect example; an original pattern or model. Ex: Steve enjoyed stealing candy from babies, tripping elderly women in crosswalks, and pilfering money from the Save the Children charity jar; he was the _____ of pure evil. | ||
| easily broken when subjected to pressure. Ex: That antique vase is so _____ that it may break ta any moment. | ||
| an inversion in the second of two parallel phrases. Ex: John F. Kennedy's "ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country" is an example of _____. | ||
| making gestures while speaking. Ex: The commencement speaker's _____ hands where quite distracting; the students had stopped listening to her words and were now counting the number of times she made awkward gestures. | ||
| existing only as an assumption or speculation. Ex: Heather wondered why her class had to study _____ cases when they had actual case histories they could look at. | ||
| a word book describing language with definitions, a dictionary. Ex: When his teacher wrote that his essay was "abysmal," Eddie decided to look it up in his _____ and found that this was quite insulting. |
