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1
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Contempt

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Showing disrespect

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Evocative

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Bringing strong images, memories, or feelings to mind

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Alleviate

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To lessen

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Implicit

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What is implied

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Ambiguous

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Unclear

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Eloquent

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Well spoken

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Tenacity

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Determined and persistent

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Parralelism

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The use of successive verbal constructions in poetry or prose

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Precarious

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Unstable or dangerous

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Fortitude

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Courage in pain or adversity

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Vanity

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Excessive pride in or admiration of one’s own appearance or achievements

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Humility

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Humble, not proud or arrogant

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13
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Reproach

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To accuse someone of something

Disapproval or dissapoinment

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Paragon

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Model of excellence

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Fecundity

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Fruitful or abundant

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Boisterous

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Noisy, roundy rough

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Disconcerting

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Feeling unsettled, upsetting

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18
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Engenders

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To produce something

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19
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Malign

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To talk badly about someone or something

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Mundane

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Boring

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21
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Disdain

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Showing disrespect

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Arbitrary

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Weird random

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Complacent

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Satisfied with the bare minimum

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Allusion

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To indirectly refer to something

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Assonance

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Repetition of vowel sounds

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Apostrophe

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Addressing the absent as if present or the inanimate as if animate

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Litotes

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An understatement

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Synechdoce

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A part is used to represent a whole

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Dissonance

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Language which is rough and unmusical is sound

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Metonymy

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A figure of speech in which one term is substituted for another closely related

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Paradox

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A group of words that appear ro contrast but actually make sense

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Juxtaposition

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A group of words that contrast

33
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Antithesis

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Two words that contrast

34
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Denotative

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What word means according to its dictionary definition

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Antecedent

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Which precedes or comes before

36
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Archtype

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A model that has typical qualities

37
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Cacaphony

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Harsh sounding words

38
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Colloquial

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Informal speech

39
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Euphimism

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Mild words that are used in place of harsh ones

40
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Epilogue

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The closing speech at the end of a play

41
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Foil

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A character that contrasts strongly with another

42
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Rhetoric

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Different ways of arguing

43
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Subjective

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Biased

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Trite

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A negative overly simplistic characteristic

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Altruistic

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Unselfish

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Ambivalent

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Having mixed feelings

47
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Apathetic

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Showing or feeling no interest or concern

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Apoplectic

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Overcome with anger

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Assiduously

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Showing great care and perseverance

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Banal

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Lacking originality and boring

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Bemused

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Puzzled and confused

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Benevolence

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Well meaning and kindly

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Callous

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Cruel disregard for others

54
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Clairvoyance

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A person who claims to have supernatural ability

55
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Congenial

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A person who is pleasant because of personality

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Despondancy

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A state of low spirits caused by loss of hope

57
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Dubious

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Hesitating or doubting

58
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Effusive

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Expressing feeling of gratitude or pleasure and approval

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Enthralled

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Capture the fascinated attention of

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Exodus

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The mass departure of people

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Falliability

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The tendency to make mistakes or be wrong

62
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Feigning

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Pretend to be affected by

63
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Flippant

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Not showing a serious or respectful attitude

64
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Gaudy

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Extravagantly bright or showy

65
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Haughy

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Being arrogantly superior or disdainful

66
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Heedlessness

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Forgetting or ignoring one’s responsibilities

67
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Impasse

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A situation in which no progress is possible

68
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Infalliability

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Incapable of making mistakes or being wrong

69
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Incongruity

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Out of place

70
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Insolent

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A rude lack of respect

71
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Petulance

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Childishly sulky

72
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Salve

A

To soothe

73
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Slipshod

A

Lack of care

74
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Subvert

A

Undermine authority

English 30-1 (20 decks)

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