vocabulary #1 |
definition |
1. ventriloquism |
throwing one's voice |
| 2. loquacious | talkative |
| 3. monologue | long speech |
| 4. terminology | nomenclature (name) |
| 5. elocution | oratory |
| 6. interlocutor | dialogist ( writer of dialogue) |
| 7. tautology | unnecessary repetition |
| 8. eulogy | formal praise |
| 9. apologist | someone who defends an idea |
| 10. prologue | introduction |
| 11. philology | study of literary text |
| 12. Decalogue | Ten Commandments |
| 13. lexicologist | one who studies word meanings and origins |
| 14.analogy | partial similarity |
| 15. logophile | lover of words |
| 16. dialogue | conversation |
| 17. circumlocution | verbosity (wordy) |
| 18. sinologist | expert in Chinese civilization |
| 19. cosmology | study of the universe |
| 20. epilogue | concluding statement |
vocabulary #2 |
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vocabulary # 3 |
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vocabulary #5 |
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vocabulary #7 |
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vocabulary #9 |
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vocabulary #11 |
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vocabulary - Julius Caesar |
definitions (Acts I, II, III, IV and V) |
1. conspirators |
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| 2. soothsayer | |
| 3. servile | |
| 4. barren | |
| 5. countenance | |
| 6. torrent | |
| 7. encompassed | |
| 8. infirmity | |
| 9. blunt | |
| 10. portentous | |
| 1. taper | |
| 2. to spurn | |
| 3. base | |
| 4. augmented | |
| 5. insurrection | |
| 6. visage | |
| 7. affability | |
| 8. redress | |
| 9. constancy | |
| 10. imminent | |
| 1. valiant | |
| 2. firmament | |
| 3. malice | |
| 4. apprehensive | |
| 5. to censure | |
| 6. to beseech | |
| 7. plebeians | |
| 8. to inter | |
| 9. legacy | |
| 10. orator | |
| 1. chastisement | |
| 2. to contaminate | |
| 3. to bait | |
| 4. rash | |
| 5. choleric | |
| 6. covetous | |
| 7. nimbleness | |
| 8. repose | |
| 9. apparition | |
| 10. overbearing | |
| 1. parley | |
| 2. vile | |
| 3. cur | |
| 4. legion | |
| 5. disconsolate | |
| 6. to misconstrue | |
| 7. entrails | |
| 8. to tarry | |
| 9. bondage | |
| 10. to bestow |
vocabulary - A Separate Peace |
definitions |
1. contend (contentious) |
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| 2. inveigle | |
| 3. prodigious | |
| 4. irate | |
| 5. implausible | |
| 6. salient | |
| 7. inured | |
| 8. inane | |
| 9. tentative | |
| 10.anarchy | |
| 11.anguish | |
| 12. venerable | |
| 13. insidious | |
| 14. blitzkrieg | |
| 15. inebriating | |
| 16. encroaching | |
| 17. effulgence | |
| 18. prestige | |
| 19. tedious | |
| 20. idiosyncratic | |
| 21. transfigured | |
| 22. maimed | |
| 23. vindicate | |
| 24. fratricide | |
25. contretemps
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| 26. misbegotten | |
| 27. opulent | |
| 28. aphorism | |
| 29. accession | |
| 30. vagaries (vagary) | |
| 31. presage | |
| 32. aesthete | |
| 33. tacit | |
| 34. galvanized | |
| 35. forebode | |
| 36. incarnate | |
| 37. implicate | |
| 38. animosity | |
| 39. innate | |
| 40. bellicose |
vocabulary for Antigone |
definition |
1. carrion |
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| 2. meddling | |
| 3. eddy | |
| 4. to marshal | |
| 5. yawning | |
| 6. sated | |
| 7. garland | |
| 8. bray | |
| 9. to swagger | |
| 10. arc | |
| 11. auspicious | |
| 12. scavenging | |
| 13. comprehensive | |
| 14. senile | |
| 15. pious | |
| 16. graven | |
| 17. lithe | |
| 18. sultry | |
| 19. to deflect | |
| 20. hearth | |
| 21. to endure | |
| 22. operative | |
| 23. utterly | |
| 24. insolence | |
| 25. stealthy | |
| 26. to waver | |
| 27. vengeance | |
| 28. to transcend | |
| 29. to lull | |
| 30. to drowse |
vocabulary for Antigone |
definition |
1. deference |
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| 2. to subordinate | |
| 3. malicious | |
| 4. to seduce | |
| 5. sheet | |
| 6. to slacken | |
| 7. perverse | |
| 8. somberly | |
| 9. to absolve | |
| 10. piety | |
| 11. awe | |
| 12. blasphemy | |
| 13. vigil | |
| 14. dirge | |
| 15. vault | |
| 16. to transgress | |
| 17. to profane | |
| 18. revel | |
| 19. wrath | |
| 20. untrammeled | |
| 21. jangling | |
| 22. entrails | |
| 23. welter | |
| 24. to glut | |
| 25. to recoil | |
| 26. omen | |
| 27. to gorge | |
| 28. doddering | |
| 29. to defile | |
| 30. barrow |
poetry terms |
definition |
1. meter |
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| 2. tone | |
| 3. imagery | |
| 4. metaphor | |
| 5. ballad | |
| 6. diction | |
| 7. poetry | |
| 8. symbol | |
| 9. theme | |
| 10. onomatopoeia | |
| 11. speaker | |
| 12. alliteration | |
| 13. parody | |
| 14. stanza | |
| 15. pun | |
| 16. simile | |
| 17. personification | |
| 18. refrain |
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