Quiz friday Flashcards
An explanation; interpretation, this is often used synonymous (correspond to a rhetorical analysis)
Explication
Sentence commanding
Imperative tone
Questioning; again this can be a “tone” word
Interrogative
Expressing enthusiasm or excitement
Exclamatory
Declaring a statement or fact
Declarative
“To be” verbs “to come” “to show” “to dance” ; knowing this helps with the explication of a piece of writing as writers use this imperatively
Infinitives
Not to be appeased, mollified, or pacified; inexorable
Implacable
To become milder; lessen in severity
Mitigate
Not following any one system, as of philosophy, medicine, etc, but selecting and using what are considered the best elements of all systems
Eclectic
The disgrace or reproach incurred by conduct considered outrageously shameful
Opprobrium
Deviating from the ordinary, usual, or normal type; exceptional; abnormal
Aberrant
To hinder, block or thwart
Stymie
Insatiable greed for riches; inordinate, miserly desire to gain and hoard wealth
Avarice
Having the polish and suavity regards as characteristics of sophisticated social life in major cities. Reflecting elegance, sophistication
Urbane
Free from reserve, restraint, or dissimulation;candid; sincere; artless; innocent; naive; Frank; straightforwardness; guileless
Ingenuous
Burdensome, oppressive, or troublesome; causing hardships
Onerous
Noun- cautious reserve in speech; ability to make responsible decisions
Discretion
Verb- to grow rapidly or flourish
Burgeon
Noun- a universally recognize principle. Adj.- axiomatic
Axiom
Adj.- existing everywhere at the same time; constantly encountered; widespread
Ubiquitous
Verb-to undeceive; to set right
Disabuse
Adj.- violating accepted dogma or convention
Heretical
Verb- to defame; to characterize harshly
Vilify
Adj- expressing a rigid opinion based on unproved or improvable principles
Dogmatic
Adj- recurrent through the year or many years; happening repeatedly
Perennial
Adj- lethargic; sluggish; dormant
Torpid
Noun- the quality of being generously noble in mind and heart, especially in forgiving
Magnanimity
Adj- fierce and cruel; eager to fight
Truculent
Adj-departing from norms or conventions
Eccentric
Adj- complex or complicated
Convoluted
pompous; grandiloquent; ranting
Bombastic
verb- to obstruct or block
Occlude
Adj- extremely talkative
Loquacious
Noun- one who hates all other humans
Misanthrope
Noun- devotion to pleasurable pursuits, especially to the pleasures of the senses
Hedonism
to depart suddenly and secretly, as for the purpose of escaping arrest
Abscond
to mix or blend together in a homogenous body
Amalgamate
of doubtful authority or authenticity
Apocryphal
omen, predicting, prognostication
Augury
fit to be eaten, palatable, victual
Comestible
a state of disuse or inactivity
Desuetude
transparent
Diaphanous
a formal or discriminating expression of praise
Encomium
flimsy
Gossamer
an image-breaker
Iconoclast
foolishly and tearfully affectionate
Maudlin
use of many words without necessity
Verbiage
to overwhelm with wordy abuse
Vituperate
offensive or disgusting; also harmful, unwholesome
Noisome
dealing with matters difficult to be understood
Abstruse
on the point of dying
Moribund
the lowest point
Nadir
a sense of injury
Umbrage
making a loud outcry
Vociferous
lustful
Lascivious
chivalrous or romantic to a ridiculous or extravagant degree
Quixotic
deviation from a right, customary, or prescribed course
Aberration
quickness of intellectual insight, or discernment, keenness of discrimination
Acumen
anything forbidden, as by social usage
Anathema
harshness or roughness of temper
Asperity
full of offensive and aggressive self-conceit
Bumptious
rebellious
Contumacious
very-learned
Erudite
nonchalant
Insouciant
given to shedding tears
Lachrymose
talkative
Loquacious
alluring by false
Meretricious
wicked in the extreme
Nefarious
calm and peaceful
Halcyon
outdated; associated with an earlier, perhaps more primitive, time
Archaic
stillness; motionlessness; quality of being at rest
Quiescence
the profession or principles of teaching, or instructing
Pedagogy
exhibiting a fawning attentiveness
Obsequious
unyielding; hardhearted; intractable
Obdurate
marked by extreme calm, impassivity, and steadiness
Imperturbable
revealing no emotion
Impassive
a song or hymn of praise and thanksgiving… no association to the word Peon…
Paean
lacking sharpness of intellect; not clear or precise in thought or expression
Obtuse
rustic and pastoral; characteristic of rural areas and their inhabitants
Bucolic
to question or oppose
Demur
to reduce purity by combining with inferior ingredients
Adulterate
indifferent to or unaffected by pleasure or pain; steadfast
Stoic
tending to disappear like vapor; vanishing
Evanescent
to make worse or more severe
Exacerbate
harmful; injurious
Noxious
when one kind of sensory stimulus evokes the subjective experience of another. In lit., the words refers to the practice of associating two or more different senses in the same image
Synesthesia
a declaration that is made emphatically ( as if no supporting evidence were necessary)
Assertion
a literary device used by writers for a prominent character in a play or book that has characteristics opposite to that of a convenient hero. The protagonist is generally admired for his bravery, strength, charm or ingenuity, while an anti-hero is typically clumsy, unsolicited, unskilled, and has both good and bad qualities.
Anti-hero
an element of a culture or system of behavior that may be considered to be passed from one individual to another by non genetic means, especially imitation; a humorous image, video, piece of text that is copied and spread rapidly by internet users
Meme
definition or classification/facts-inferences about past, present, or future
Claims of Fact
such claims that tend to make value judgements, resolve conflicts between value/quasi-policy. The proof for such a claim is not as solid as claims of fact.
Claims of Value
