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RJ vocab Flashcards

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Iambic Pentameter

A

a verse line having five iambic metrical feet

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Volta

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a turn or change in theme or tone

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Heroic Couplet

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a rhyming couplet

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Conceit

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an extended metaphoric comparison that establishes parallels between two seemingly dissimilar things or situations

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Dramatic Irony

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when the audience but not the characters understands a scene

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Pun

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a humorous play on words

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Tragic Hero

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the protagonist of a story who is fated to face destruction, doom, or intense struggle

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Mutiny

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Rebellion against authority, act for freedom

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Star-crossed

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A relationship where it is fated to not work

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Misadventured

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Bad luck that caused a bad incident

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Piteous

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Something that deserves pity or feelings/emotions

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Strife

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Conflict or disagreement

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Toil

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Extreme and tiring labor

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Importune

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Harassing someone to force them to do soemthing

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Assail

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Make a violent attack on someone

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Tyrannous

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Using power in a unfair way

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Beseem

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To be appropriate for, suit

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Forswear

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TO give up on something

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Propagate

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To spread

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Partisan

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Person who supports one party or group

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INterchange

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Trade, to exchange something between two or more people

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transgression

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act that goes against a law or rule

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pernicious

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Something that is harmful

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Augment

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Enlarge something by adding to it

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Posterity

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Future generations

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Portentous

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Hint or warm for disasters in the future

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Invocation

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Asking for help or support

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Consort

A

A spouse

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Discourse

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Communication, written or spoken between people

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Entreat

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To plead in order to persuade

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Enmity

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Hatred or unfriendliness towards someone

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Peverse

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Behavior that is unreasonable

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Repose

A

Resting

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Baleful

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Deadly or harmful

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Sallow

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Unhealthy color, very pale or yellowish

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Lamentable

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Something that is upsetting and unsatisfied.

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Apt

A

something that is appropriate

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Consort

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Spouse or companion

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Haste

A

quick or fast speed

40
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garish

A

overly bright of colorful

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carrion

A

dead flesh

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dote

A

to love someone or something very much, sometimes too much

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lamentation

A

feeling grief or sadness

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beseech

A

ask someone for something in a quickly manner

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appertaining

A

to be connected

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abhor

A

hate something or someone

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bandy

A

exchange

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vestal

A

women who are pure (virgin?)

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effeminate

A

feminine traits

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Rouse

A

Wake up

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enjoin

A

urge someone to do something

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orison

A

prayer

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dirge

A

song of grief

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ordained

A

someone to become priest

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immoderate

A

excessive

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prorogue

A

Postpone something like Parliament

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surcease

A

something that came to an end

58
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abate

A

decrease in amount

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behest

A

to order

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prostrate

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lie on the floor, maybe because of tiredness.

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pestilent

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deadly

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inundation

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flood/overwhelming amount of something

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