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English 12th grade: midterm review Flashcards

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Proverbs and Idioms flashcards
1
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tending to find fault, especially in a petty, nasty, or hairsplitting way; petty, nagging criticism

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carping

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

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congeal

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to imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model

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emulate

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relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting

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germane

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

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reconnaissance

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

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temporize

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

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accost

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swiftness, rapidity of motion or action

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celerity

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

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devious

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

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halcyon

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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

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

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overt

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

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suppliant

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

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undulate

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

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piquant

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

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substantive

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not usual or expected; not in character

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unwonted

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

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atrophy

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

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concord

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

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consummate

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disorder, confusion; to throw into disorder

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disarray

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frenzied, highly agitated

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frenetic

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to imprison, confine, jail

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incarcerate

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ridiculous, laughable, absurd

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ludicrous

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

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mordant

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sharpness (particularly of the mind or senses)

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acuity

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marked by evil and corruption, devoid of a moral principles

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depraved

28
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intended for or understood by only a select few, private, secret

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esoteric

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

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garner

30
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a peculiarity that serves to distinguish or identify

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idiosyncrasy

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

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nuance

32
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a strong attraction or inclination

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penchant

33
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according to reputation or general belief; having widespread acceptance and good reputation; alleged

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reputed

34
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costly, rich, magnificent

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sumptuous

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

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abject

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

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agnostic

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

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derelict

38
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a bitter and prolonged verbal attack

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diatribe

39
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a crude image of a despised person

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effigy

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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

41
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stopping and beginning again, sporadic

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intermittent

42
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a new convert, beginner, novice

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neophyte

43
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keenness in observing and understanding

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perspicacity

44
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a watch kept over a person; careful, close, and disciplined observation

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survailance

45
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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

46
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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

47
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verse written in iambic pentameter without a rhyme

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blank verse

48
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stressed and unstressed syllabic pattern in a verse. it gives poetry a rhythmical and melodious sound

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meter

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

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soliloquy

50
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the type of art, literature, music characterized by a specific form, content and style

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genre

51
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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

52
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a form of language that has no formal metrical structure

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rhyming couplet

53
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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

54
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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

55
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a form of language that has no formal metrical structure

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prose

56
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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

57
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in the story the wife’s lament, where is she?

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in the woods under an oak tree

58
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in the wife’s lament, what is her worry?

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

59
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in the wife’s lament, what is so unusual about this poem?

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

60
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in the wife’s lament, how was this story an example of anglo-saxon poetry?

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.

61
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in the wanderer, what characteristic of anglo saxon can be seen in poetry?

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.

62
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in the wanderer, what is the wanderer missing out/ longing?

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

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in the wanderer, what is the main theme?

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grief

64
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in the wanderer, what are the fates of men?

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death

65
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in the seafarer, what element of poetry shows?

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sorrow/disatisfaction

66
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in the seafarer, what characteristics of anglo-saxon can be seen in this poetry?

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.

67
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in the seafarer, who is the narrator?

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the seafarer

English (12th grade) (3 decks)

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