Vocab List 7

Question 0

Concede

Answer 0

V. Grant

Question 1

Reprove

Answer 1

V. Disapprove of

Question 2

Extort

Answer 2

V. Get by threats or violence

Question 3

Disperses

Answer 3

V. Breaks up

Question 4

Contemptuous

Answer 4

Adj. scornful

Question 5

Bequest

Answer 5

N. Gift left by means of a will

Question 6

Temporal

Answer 6

Adj. limited to this world; not spiritual

Question 7

Capacity

Answer 7

N. Ability to absorb

Question 8

Pestilence

Answer 8

N. Plague

Question 9

Free verse

Answer 9

Poetry that has no specific lines, meter, or rhyme scheme.

Question 10

Hyperbole

Answer 10

Overstatement characterize by exaggerated language.

Ex. “I’m starving!”

Question 11

In medias res

Answer 11

“In the midst of things” to open a story in the middle of the action and filling in past details with flashbacks.

Question 12

Irony

Answer 12

A situation or statement characterized by significant difference between what is expected or understood and what actually happens or is meant.

Question 13

Juxtaposition

Answer 13

The location of one thing as being adjacent or juxtaposed with another. This placing of two items side by side creates a certain effect, reveals an attitude, or accomplishes some purpose of the writer