Vocabulary 1-20 Flashcards

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Instructive

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useful and informative

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Propriety

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Behavior that is appropriate and has good morals

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Infirmity

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Physical and mental weakness

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Indulge

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To give into something

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5
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Zealous

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Being enthusiastic about something

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Conditional

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Involving an emotion or condition

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Allusion

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Making a brief reference to something cultural Ex: the bible, mythology, and Shakespeare

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Paranoia

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Paranoid, fearful and anxious of something, to a point of delusion

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Indifferent

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Without interest or concern, not caring

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Esteem

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The position of respect one has for someone

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Reposed

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State of being at rest, being relaxed

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Swindlers

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An act of cheating, being fake

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Decency

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The quality of being decent, modest

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14
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Coopering

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Someone who makes or repairs something

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Pathetic

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Emotion of sadness, pity, sorrow

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16
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Conception

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A idea or concept

17
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Resolution

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The unfolding or solution of a conflict in a story

18
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Pathos

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An emotional appeal, to persuade an audience by appealing to their emotion

19
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Parallelism

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Parts of a sentence is grammatically the same, or similar in construction. ( King’s famous speech, “ I have a dream”)

20
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Anaphora

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Repetition of the first part of the sentence