Vocab List 9 Flashcards
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Precepts
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A commandment given as a rule of action or conduct
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Imminent
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Likely to occur at any moment
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Pernicious
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Deadly or fatal
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Piteous
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Evoking or deserving pity
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Perusal
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Reading surveying Scanning or scrutinizing
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Brevity
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The shortness of time
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Satirical
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Something that implies irony or sarcasm to expose flaws in someone’s personality
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Contrive
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To plan with ingenuity, to devise
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Mood
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The feeling that the work brings forward
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Motif
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A distinct or dominant idea in a work
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Ode
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A lyric poem
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Oxymoron
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To opposing phrases that compliment each other
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Onomonpeia
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A word that is a sound. Boom pop!
