Vocab List 4 Flashcards

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Vehemently

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(Adv.) the display of strong feeling; passion

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Resolute

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(Adj.) Admirably purposeful, determined, and unwavering

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Infallible

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Incapable of making mistakes or being wrong

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Furled

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(V.) roll or fold up and secure neatly (a flag, Sail, umbrella, etc.)

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Lavish

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(Adj.) sumptuously rich, elaborate, or luxurious

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Assail

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(V.) To make a concerted or violent attack on

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Extolled

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(V.) To Praise enthusiastically

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Colloquial

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Ordinary language, vernacular

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Chiasmus

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Figure of speech by which the order of the terms in the first of two parallel clauses is reversed into the second

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Caricature

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Depiction in which a characters characteristics or features are so deliberately exaggerated

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Caesura

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A pause in a line verse in grammatical speech.

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Blank verse

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First form that most resembles common speech

Unrhymed lines in Iambic pentameter

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