Terms Flashcards
Abhorrent
invoking disgust / repulsion
Deplorable
shockingly bad in quality
Magnanimous
very generous / forgiving
Tsktsk
expressing distaste / annoyance
Convoluted
extremely complex and difficult
Myriad
a large collection of something
Boondoggle
work that is wasteful but appears valuable
Infitisemal
infinitely small
Quintessential
representing the perfect quality of something
Pulchritudinous
beautiful / breathtaking
Serendipity
occurence of events in a happy / luckful way
Pragmatic
dealing with things sensibly
Chiasmus
literary figure where thoughts are repeated in reverse
Anadiplosis
repetition; word used at end of sentence A and beginning of sentence B
Tmesis
insertion of word between two words (Fan-freaking-tastic)
Aposiopesis
stopping abruptly and leaving incomplete
Epizuexis
form of repetition where one word is repeated for emphasis
Macaronic
introduction of vernacular words with latin endings
Oxymoron
seemingly contradictory words
Anacrhonism
something out of place in time
