This week's words focus on literary terms and new vocabulary.
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| 222508304 | ascetic | simple way of life avoiding pleasures | |
| 222508305 | allocation | to divide or give out | |
| 222508306 | apostrophe | addressing an absent person or a personified thing rhetorically | |
| 222508307 | allusion | an implied or indirect reference especially in literature | |
| 222508308 | beguile | to trick or deceive | |
| 228086000 | parallelism | resemblance; repeated syntactical similarities introduced for rhetorical effect. | |
| 228086001 | oxymoron | a combination of words that have opposite or very different meanings | |
| 228086002 | crass | having or showing no understanding of what is proper or acceptable : rude and insensitive | |
| 228086003 | defray | to pay for (something) | |
| 228086004 | envoy | a person who is sent by one government to represent it in dealing with another government | |
| 232561904 | interloper | a person who is not wanted or welcome by the other people in a situation or place | |
| 232561905 | vicarious | experienced or felt by watching, hearing about, or reading about someone else rather than by doing something yourself | |
| 232561906 | admonish | to speak to (someone) in a way that expresses disapproval or criticism | |
| 232561907 | satire | a literary work holding up human vices (flaws; moral imperfections) and follies (foolishness) to ridicule or scorn; a way of using humor to show that someone or something (person, government, or society) is foolish, weak, or bad. | |
| 232561908 | symbol | an action, object, or event that expresses or represents a particular idea or quality. |
