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| 228498720 | adulterate | to corrupt, make worse by the addition of something of lesser value | 0 | |
| 228498721 | ambidextrous | able to use both hands equally well; very skillful; deceitful; hypocritical | 1 | |
| 228498722 | augment | to make larger, increase | 2 | |
| 228498723 | bereft | deprived of; made unhappy through a loss of something near and dear | 3 | |
| 228498724 | deploy | to position or arrange; to utilize; to form up | 4 | |
| 228498725 | dour | stern, unyielding; gloomy, ill-humored | 5 | |
| 228498726 | fortitude | courage in facing difficulties | 6 | |
| 228498727 | gape | to stare with open mouth; to open the mouth wide; to open wide | 7 | |
| 228498728 | gibe | to utter taunting words; (n) an expression of scorn | 8 | |
| 228498729 | guise | an external appearance, cover, mask | 9 | |
| 228498730 | insidious | intended to deceive or entrap; sly, treacherous | 10 | |
| 228498731 | intimation | a hint, indirect suggestion | 11 | |
| 228498732 | opulent | wealthy, luxurious; ample; grandiose | 12 | |
| 228498733 | pliable | easily bent, flexible; easily influenced | 13 | |
| 228498734 | reiterate | to say again, repeat | 14 | |
| 228498735 | stolid | not easily moved, mentally or emotionally; dull, unresponsive | 15 | |
| 228498736 | tentative | experimental in nature; uncertain, hesitant | 16 | |
| 228498737 | unkempt | not combed; untidy; not properly maintained; unpolished, rude | 17 | |
| 228498738 | verbatim | word for word; exactly as written or spoken | 18 | |
| 228498739 | warily | cautiously, with great care | 19 | |
| 228523821 | adroit | skillful, expert in the use of the hands or mind | 20 | |
| 228523822 | amicable | peaceable, friendly | 21 | |
| 228523823 | averse | having a deep-seated distaste; opposed, unwilling | 22 | |
| 228523824 | belligerent | given to fighting, warlike; combative, aggressive | 23 | |
| 228523825 | benevolent | kindly, charitable | 24 | |
| 228523826 | cursory | hasty, not thorough | 25 | |
| 228523827 | duplicity | treachery, deceitfulness | 26 | |
| 228523828 | extol | to praise extravagantly | 27 | |
| 228523829 | feasible | possible, able to be done | 28 | |
| 228523830 | grimace | a wry face, facial distortion | 29 | |
| 228523831 | holocaust | a large scale destruction, especially by fire; a vast slaughter; a burnt offering | 30 | |
| 228523832 | impervious | not affected or hurt by; admitting of no passage or entrance | 31 | |
| 228523833 | impetus | a moving force, impulse, stimulus | 32 | |
| 228523834 | jeopardy | danger | 33 | |
| 228523835 | meticulous | extremely careful; particular about details | 34 | |
| 228523836 | nostalgia | a longing for something past; homesickness | 35 | |
| 228523837 | quintessence | the purest essence or form of something; the most typical example | 36 | |
| 228523838 | retrogress | to move backward; to return to an earlier condition | 37 | |
| 228523839 | scrutinize | to examine closely | 38 | |
| 228523840 | tepid | lukewarm; unenthusiastic, marked by an absence of interest | 39 | |
| 228547976 | adversary | an enemy, opponent | 40 | |
| 228547977 | alienate | to turn away; to make indifferent or hostile; to transfer, convey | 41 | |
| 228547978 | artifice | a skillful or ingenious device; a clever trick; clever skill; trickery | 42 | |
| 228547979 | coerce | to compel, force | 43 | |
| 228547980 | craven | cowardly | 44 | |
| 228547981 | culinary | of or related to cooking or to the kitchen | 45 | |
| 228547982 | delete | to erase, wipe out, cut out | 46 | |
| 228547983 | demise | a death, especially of a person in a lofty position | 47 | |
| 228547984 | exhilarate | to enliven, cheer, give spirit or liveliness to | 48 | |
| 228547985 | fallow | plowed but not seeded; inactive | 49 | |
| 228547986 | harass | to disturb, worry; to trouble by repeated attacks | 50 | |
| 228547987 | inclement | stormy, harsh; severe in attitude or action | 51 | |
| 228547988 | muse | to think about in a dreamy way, ponder | 52 | |
| 228547989 | negligible | so unimportant that it can be disregarded | 53 | |
| 228547990 | perpetuate | to make permanent or long lasting | 54 | |
| 228547991 | precedent | an example that may serve as a basis for imitation or later action | 55 | |
| 228547992 | punitive | inflicting or aiming at punishment | 56 | |
| 228547993 | redress | to set right, remedy; relief from wrong or injury | 57 | |
| 228547994 | sojourn | a temporary stay; to stay for a time | 58 | |
| 228547995 | urbane | refined in manner or style, suave | 59 | |
| 229008785 | allegory | an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to represent an abstract existential concept | 60 | |
| 229008786 | alliteration | use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse | 61 | |
| 229008787 | allusion | passing reference or indirect mention to something in common knowledge | 62 | |
| 229008788 | ambiguity | The multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence or passage. | 63 | |
| 229008789 | analogy | A similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them. | 64 | |
| 229008790 | antecedent | The word, phrase or clause referred to by a pronoun. | 65 | |
| 229008791 | aphorism | A terse statement of known authorship which expresses a general truth or a moral principle. | 66 | |
| 229008792 | apostrophe | A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction. | 67 | |
| 229008793 | atmosphere | The emotional mood created by the entirety of a literary work. | 68 | |
| 229008794 | clause | A grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb. | 69 | |
| 229008795 | colloquialism | The use of slang or informalities in speech or writing; not generally acceptable for formal writing | 70 | |
| 229008796 | conceit | A fanciful expression, usually in the form of an extended metaphor or surprising analogy between seemingly dissimilar objects that displays intellectual cleverness | 71 | |
| 229008797 | connotation | the feelings or emotions surrounding a word | 72 | |
| 229008798 | denotation | the strict, literal, dictionary definition of a word | 73 | |
| 229008799 | diction | A writer's stylistic word choice | 74 | |
| 229050312 | didactic | to teach or instruct | 75 | |
| 229050313 | euphemism | An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant | 76 | |
| 229050314 | extended metaphor | A metaphor at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work. | 77 | |
| 229050315 | figurative language | writing or speech that is not intended to carry literal meaning and is usually meant to be imaginative and vivid. | 78 | |
| 229050316 | figure of speech | A device used to produce figurative language. Examples: Hyperbole, irony, metaphor, oxymoron, simile, etc. | 79 | |
| 229050317 | generic conventions | Describes traditions for each genre; these conventions help to define each genre. | 80 | |
| 229050318 | genre | The major category into which a literary work fits; the basic divisions are prose, poetry and drama. | 81 | |
| 229050319 | homily | Any serious talk, speech or lecture involving moral or spiritual advice | 82 | |
| 229050320 | hyperbole | a figure of speech that uses exaggeration to exploit irony, make a point, or evoke humor | 83 | |
| 229050321 | imagery | Language that appeals to the senses; this is figurative language used to describe, arouse emotion or represent abstractions | 84 | |
| 229050322 | inference | To draw a reasonable conclusion from the information presented. | 85 | |
| 229050323 | invective | an emotionally violent, verbal denunciation or attack using strong, abusive language. | 86 | |
| 229050324 | irony | An unexpected outcome; this can be verbal, situational or dramatic and is often used to create poignancy or humor. | 87 | |
| 229050325 | metaphor | a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity. | 88 | |
| 229050326 | metonomy | A figure of speech in which the name of one object is substituted for that of another closely associated with it. | 89 | |
| 229050327 | mood | the prevailing atmosphere or emotional aura of a literary work. | 90 | |
| 229050328 | narrative | the telling of a story or an account of an event or series of events. | 91 | |
| 229050329 | onomatopoeia | A figure of speech in which natural sounds in which natural sounds are imitated in the sounds of words. | 92 | |
| 229050330 | oxymoron | A figure of speech wherein the author groups apparently contradictory terms to suggest a paradox. | 93 | |
| 229050331 | paradox | A statement that appears to be self-contradictory or opposed to common sense but upon closer inspection contains some degree of truth or validity. | 94 | |
| 229050332 | parallelism | The framing of words, phrases, sentences or paragraphs to give structural similarity. This can involve repetition of a preposition or verbal phrase. | 95 | |
| 229050333 | parody | A work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect and/or ridicule. | 96 | |
| 229050334 | pedantic | Describes words, phrases or general tone that is overly scholarly, academic or bookish. | 97 | |
| 229050335 | personification | A figure of speech in which the author presents or describes concepts, animals or inanimate objects by endowing them with human attributes or emotions. | 98 | |
| 229050336 | point of view | the perspective from which a story is told. | 99 | |
| 229956364 | satire | A literary work that exploits flaws in society through irony, parody, hyperbole and sarcasm. | 100 | |
| 229956365 | semantics | The meaning of words, their historical and psychological development, their connotations and relationship to one another. | 101 | |
| 229956366 | style | The sum of the choices an author makes in blending literary devices. | 102 | |
| 229956367 | subject complement | The word or clause that follows a linking verb and complements the subject of the sentence by renaming it or describing it. | 103 | |
| 229956368 | subordinate clause | A clause that cannot stand alone in a sentence. | 104 | |
| 229956369 | syllogism | A deductive system of formal logic that presents two premises that inevitably lead to sound conclusion. (a equals b and b equals c, so a must equal c.) | 105 | |
| 229956370 | symbol | An object, action, character or scene that represents something much more abstract. | 106 | |
| 229956371 | predicate adjective | an adjective that follows a linking verb, modifying or describing the subject. (My boyfriend is tall, dark and handsome) | 107 | |
| 229956372 | predicate nominative | A noun that follows a linking verb, renaming the subject. (Abe Lincoln was a man of integrity) | 108 | |
| 229956373 | prose | One of the major divisions of genre, referring to written works such as nonfiction and fiction, that resemble everyday speech. | 109 | |
| 229956374 | repetition | The duplication of any element of language, such as a sound, word, phrase, clause, sentence or grammatical pattern. This emphasizes an idea, when done right. | 110 | |
| 229956375 | rhetoric | The principles governing the art of writing effectively, eloquently and persuasively. | 111 | |
| 229956376 | rhetorical modes | The variety, the conventions and the purposes of the major kinds of writing, these being expository writing, argumentation (as in persuasive writing), description and narration. | 112 | |
| 229956377 | sarcasm | Bitter, caustic language meant to hurt or ridicule someone or something. This can be witty and insightful, or just plain cruel. | 113 |
