English 12th grade: midterm review

Question 1

tending to find fault, especially in a petty, nasty, or hairsplitting way; petty, nagging criticism

Answer 1

carping

Question 2

to change from liquid to solid, thicken; to make inflexible or rigid

Answer 2

congeal

Question 3

to imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model

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emulate

Question 4

relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting

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germane

Question 5

a survey made for military purposes; any kind of preliminary inspection or examination

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reconnaissance

Question 6

to stall or act evasively in order to gain time, avoid a confrontation, or postpone a decision; to compromise

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temporize

Question 7

to approach and speak to first; to confront in a challenging or aggressive way

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accost

Question 8

swiftness, rapidity of motion or action

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celerity

Question 9

straying or wandering from a straight or direct course; done or acting in a shifty or underhanded way

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devious

Question 10

a legendary bird identified with the kingfisher; of or relating to the halcyon; calm, peaceful; happy, golden; prosperous, affluent

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halcyon

Question 11

deliberately setting or causing fires; designed to start fires; tending to stir up strife or rebellion; one who sets fires, arsonist; one who causes strife

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incendiary

Question 12

open, not hidden, expressed or revealed in a way that is easily recognized

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overt

Question 13

asking humbly and earnestly; one who makes a request humbly and earnestly, a petitioner, suitor

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suppliant

Question 14

to move in waves or with a wavelike motion; to have a wavelike appearance or form

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undulate

Question 15

stimulating to the taste or mind; spicy; pungent; appealing provocative

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piquant

Question 16

real, having a solid basis; considerable in number or amount; meaningful and on topic

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substantive

Question 17

not usual or expected; not in character

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unwonted

Question 18

the wasting away of a body organ or tissue; any progressive decline or failure; to waste away

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atrophy

Question 19

a state agreement, harmony, unanimity; a treaty, pact covenant

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concord

Question 20

complete or perfect in the highest degree; to bring to a state of completion or perfection

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consummate

Question 21

disorder, confusion; to throw into disorder

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disarray

Question 22

frenzied, highly agitated

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frenetic

Question 23

to imprison, confine, jail

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incarcerate

Question 24

ridiculous, laughable, absurd

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ludicrous

Question 25

bitting or caustic in thought, manner, or style; sharply or bitterly harsh

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mordant

Question 26

sharpness (particularly of the mind or senses)

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acuity

Question 27

marked by evil and corruption, devoid of a moral principles

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depraved

Question 28

intended for or understood by only a select few, private, secret

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esoteric

Question 29

to acquire as the result of effort; to gather and store away, as for future use

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garner

Question 30

a peculiarity that serves to distinguish or identify

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idiosyncrasy

Question 31

a subtle or slight variation (as in color, meaning, quality), delicate gradation or shade of difference

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nuance

Question 32

a strong attraction or inclination

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penchant

Question 33

according to reputation or general belief; having widespread acceptance and good reputation; alleged

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reputed

Question 34

costly, rich, magnificent

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sumptuous

Question 35

degraded; base, contemptible; cringing , servile; complete and unrelieved

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abject

Question 36

one who believes that nothing can be known about God; a skeptic; without faith, skeptical

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agnostic

Question 37

someone or something that is abandoned or neglected; left abandoned; neglectful of duty

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derelict

Question 38

a bitter and prolonged verbal attack

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diatribe

Question 39

a crude image of a despised person

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effigy

Question 40

the state or quality of being just, fair, or impartial; fair and equal treatment; something that is fair; the money value of a property above and beyond any mortgage or other claim

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equity

Question 41

stopping and beginning again, sporadic

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intermittent

Question 42

a new convert, beginner, novice

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neophyte

Question 43

keenness in observing and understanding

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perspicacity

Question 44

a watch kept over a person; careful, close, and disciplined observation

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survailance

Question 45

a grotesque or grossly inferior imitation; a disguise, especially the clothing of the opposite sex; to ridicule by imitating in a broad or burlesque fashion

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travesty

Question 46

a line of verse with five metrical feel, each consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable

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iambic pentameter

Question 47

verse written in iambic pentameter without a rhyme

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blank verse

Question 48

stressed and unstressed syllabic pattern in a verse. it gives poetry a rhythmical and melodious sound

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meter

Question 49

a literary device used in drama to reveal the innermost thoughts of a character

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soliloquy

Question 50

the type of art, literature, music characterized by a specific form, content and style

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genre

Question 51

a kind of drama that present a serious subject matter about human suffering and corresponding terrible events in a dignified manner

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tragedy

Question 52

a form of language that has no formal metrical structure

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rhyming couplet

Question 53

a literary device that can be defined as a foot containing unaccented and short syllables followed by along and accented syllables in a single line of a poem

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iamb

Question 54

an amusing scene, incident, or speech introduced into serious or tragic elements, as in a play, in order to provide temporary relief from tension

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comic relief

Question 55

a form of language that has no formal metrical structure

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prose

Question 56

in the story the wife's lament, why is she mourning?

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because she was band from the town and is missing her husband

Question 57

in the story the wife's lament, where is she?

Answer 57

in the woods under an oak tree

Question 58

in the wife's lament, what is her worry?

Answer 58

his pain in losing her and that he still feels the same way that she does

Question 59

in the wife's lament, what is so unusual about this poem?

Answer 59

it doesn't tell why the soldiers wanted them apart, or what the wife did to make them want to break them apart

Question 60

in the wife's lament, how was this story an example of anglo-saxon poetry?

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Question 61

in the wanderer, what characteristic of anglo saxon can be seen in poetry?

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Question 62

in the wanderer, what is the wanderer missing out/ longing?

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His fate, a god, a king, a meaning in life

Question 63

in the wanderer, what is the main theme?

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grief

Question 64

in the wanderer, what are the fates of men?

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death

Question 65

in the seafarer, what element of poetry shows?

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sorrow/disatisfaction

Question 66

in the seafarer, what characteristics of anglo-saxon can be seen in this poetry?

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Question 67

in the seafarer, who is the narrator?

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the seafarer