English Story Vocab Test Flashcards

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Beleaguered

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Lay siege to,be set with difficulties.

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Asetic

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Practicing severe self discipline

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Fanatic

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To have excessive zeal/ excitement

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Remorse

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Deep regret or guilt

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Ruse

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A trick

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Silhouetted

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Dark shape against light outline

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Bludgeon

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Thick stick with heavy end

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Despairingly

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Hopelessness

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Modesty

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Not revealing

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Monotony

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Repetitive

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Nourishment

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Food or other substances necessary for growth.

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Pandemonium

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Wild,noisey

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Succession

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Putting things in order

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Bravado

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False show of courage or defiance

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Degradation

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Humiliation

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Exuberance

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Condition of unrestrained joy

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Futile

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Having no useful result

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Impotent

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Powerless

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Nostalgia

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a sentimental longing or wistful affection for the past, typically for a period or place with happy personal associations.

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Ostensibly

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apparently or purportedly, but perhaps not actually.

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Perverse

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Stubbornly contrary

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Poignantly

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Profoundly moving matter

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Centrubution

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Something given in repayment usually as a punishment

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Squalor

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Filthy condition

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Stoicism

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Pain with no complain

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Doggedness

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Persistence, stubborness

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Evanesce

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Vanish fade away

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Exotic

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Excitingly strange

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Heresy

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Action or opinion which is different of what is right.

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Imminent

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About to occur

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Infallibility

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In ability to make errors

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Precariously

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Insecurely; in a dangrous way

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Reiterate

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To repeat

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Symbolizm

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Ordinary object or event that has a deeper meaning.

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Allegory

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Characters, settings, or actions that represent something actually going on in the outside world.

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Setting

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Where and when a story takes place

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Character

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Process of building a person or nonperson out of words.

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Tone

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Attitude of the speaker

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Voice

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Writes use of language or overall style

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Irony

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Describes the difference between what we expect or what seems suitable and what actually happens

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Ambiguity

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Let’s reader determine the ending

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Ralph

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Good dies

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Piggy

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Reason

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Roger

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Brute force

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Simon

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Jesus like

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Jack

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Rebel