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All Vocabulary Words Flashcards

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Accusatory

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Assignment of blame or guilt

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Apathetic

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Showing little or no emotion

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Awe

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Overwhelming feeling of wonder

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Bitter

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Marked by strong resentment or cynicism

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Caustic

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Harsh in tone

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Callous

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Emotionally hardened

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Choleric

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Characterized by anger

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Condesecension

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Showing arrogance by patronizing those considered inferior

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Contemptuous

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Expressing extreme scorn

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Conventional

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Following accepted customs

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Critical

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Inclined to find fault or judge with severity

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Cynical

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Distrusting or disparaging the motives of others

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Derision

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Ridicule or mockery

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Disdainful

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Full of or showing contempt

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Earnest

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Serious in intention, purpose, or effort

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Erudite

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Characterized by great knowledge

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Fanciful

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Indulgent in imagination

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Forthright

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Direct or straightforward

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Haughty

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Snobbish or arrogant

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Incredulous

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Disinclined or indisposed to believe

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Indignant

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expressing strong displeasure at something considered unjust

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Initimate

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atmosphere conducive to privacy or intimacy

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Jovial

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characterized by a hearty, joyous humor

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Lyrical

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having the form and musical quality of a song

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Matter-of-fact

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something of a factual nature, as an actual occurrence

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Melancholy

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a gloomy state of mind

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Mocking

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to attack or treat with ridicule, contempt, or derision

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Morose

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gloomily or sullenly ill-humored

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Malicious

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intentionally harmful; spiteful

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Objective

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not influenced by personal feelings, interpretations, or prejudice; based on facts; unbiased

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Obsequious

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obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree

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Patronizing

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treat with an apparent kindness that betrays a feeling of superiority

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Pessimistic

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tending to see the worst aspect of things

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Quizzical

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indicating mild or amused puzzlement

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Reflective

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relating to or characterized by deep thought; thoughtful

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Reverent

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feeling or showing deep and solemn respect

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Ribald

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vulgar or indecent in speech

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Sanguine

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optimistic or positive, especially in an apparently bad or difficult situation

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Sardonic

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grimly mocking or cynical

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Sincere

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free from pretense or deceit; proceeding from genuine feelings

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Generic Convention

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Features that allow a text to be put into a specific genre

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Genre

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A form or type of artistic creation

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Homily

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Religious edification rather than doctrinal instruction

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Hyperbole

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Exaggeration for the purpose of emphasis

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Imagery

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Visual descriptive or figurative language

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Inference

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Educated guess

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Invective

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Insulting or abusive

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Loose Sentence

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Sentence where a main clause is modified by additional clauses or phrases

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Narrative

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Spoken or written events of a story

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Onomatopoeia

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Words that imitate sounds

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Allegory

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a story, picture, or poem with hidden meaning

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Alliteration

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the same sound starting consecutive words

53
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Allusion

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an indirect reference to another text, history, etc.

54
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Ambiguity

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intentional unclearness to produce an effect

55
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Analogy

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extended comparison between two dissimilar things

56
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Antecedent

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the noun to which a pronoun refers

57
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Aphorism

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a short, astute statement of a general truth

58
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Atmosphere

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the tone or mood or a work

59
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Clause

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a unit of speech with a subject and a predicate

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Apostrophe

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a passage addressing someone who isn’t present or an inanimate object

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Juxtaposition

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two things placed close to each other for contrast

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Synecdoche

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a figure of speech representing a while (Tech vs Mat-Su Career and Technical High School)

63
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Prolepsis

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either anticipation and response to possible arguments or statements about a thing existing before it occurs (ex., he was a dead man when he walked into the room)

64
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Epanalepsis

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repetition of initial words

65
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Paradox

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a proposition whose conclusion seems self contradictory

66
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Tautology

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saying the same thing twice in different words

67
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Dichotomy

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a division between two different things

68
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Metonymy

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substituting something for something representative of it (suits for business people)

69
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Litotes

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affirmative expressed through refuting its negative (you won’t be sorry)

70
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Antithesis

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direct opposite, sometimes displayed through parallel structure

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Assertion

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a statement of fact or belief

72
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Clarity

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clearness, intelligibility

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Cogent

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logical and convinving

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Coherent

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logically consistent

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Cohesive

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united, well organized

76
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Didactic

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designed to teach

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Discourse

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verbal or written expression

78
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Eloquence

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speaking vividly or persuasively

79
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Emphasize

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to place greater importance

80
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Fluid

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able to flow easily, reads well

81
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Implication

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a hint or suggestion, implied

82
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Lucid

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clear, easily understood

83
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Rhetoric

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effective, persuasive speaking

84
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Aribter

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a judge, settles arguments, a mediator

85
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Biased

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prejudice towards one way of thinking

86
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Exculpate

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prove innocense

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Impartial

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unbiased

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Incontrovertible

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indisputable, undeniable

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Integrity

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honesty, morality

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