Vocab Week #10 Flashcards
Accrue
(of sums of money or benefits) be received by someone in regular or increasing amounts over time
Feckless
lacking initiative or strength of character; irresponsible
Misanthrope
a person who dislikes humankind and avoids human society
Raiment
Clothing
Bucolic
relating to the pleasant aspects of the countryside and country life
Allay
diminish or put at rest (fear, suspicion, or worry)
Synesthesia
a neurological condition where the stimulation of one sense involuntarily triggers experiences in another unrelated sense
Syntax
the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language
Theme
the subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person’s thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic
an idea that recurs in or pervades a work of art or literature
Tone
a musical or vocal sound with reference to its pitch, quality, and strength
the general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation, etc
Tragedy
an event causing great suffering, destruction, and distress, such as a serious accident, crime, or natural catastrophe
a play dealing with tragic events and having an unhappy ending, especially one concerning the downfall of the main character
Transcendentalism
emphasizes intuition and spirituality over material reality, valuing individual intuition and self-reliance, and seeing nature as a path to spiritual understanding
Understatement
the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is
Verse
writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme
Villanelle
a poem of nineteen lines, and which follows a strict form that consists of five tercets (three-line stanzas) followed by one quatrain (four-line stanza)
