LP 3 Flashcards
abate
v
decrease, become less in amout/intensity
by adding more lanes on the highway we can abate the trafic congestion in atl
arcane
adj
secretive, myserious, few know
he was the only one to know about the arcane details of the breakup
burgeon
v
grow or expand rapidly
castigate
v
criticize severly
dauntless
adj
bold/fearless
dilemma
n
a difficult problem
egalitarian
adj
believing in the principle that all people are ewual and deserve equal rights and oppirtunies
egalitariant government/leader
sinister
adj
evil
sophistry
the use of fallacious arguments
solphist=someone who uses
noun
spurn
verb
reject disdainfully
noun
scornful rejection
irreverent
adj
showing lack of respect
cantankerous
adj
irritable
parrallelism
same structure
polysyndeton
lots of conjunction
metabasis
sum up what you just send thwen inreoduce next topic
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