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Combined Sets
"The Monkey's Paw"+"Contents of a..."+"Swimming To..."+Week #2 Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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Foreshadowing | giving details that hint at upcoming events |
Prediction | logical idea about what will happen. |
Grave | very serious and worrying |
Maligned | spoken ill of |
Credulity | tendency to believe too readily |
Furtively | secretively;sneakily;stealthily |
Apathy | lack of interest or emotion |
Oppressive | causing great discomfort;distressing |
Theme | central message or insight into life revealed through a literary work |
Internal Conflict | character in conflict with himself or herself |
External Conflict | character struggles against an outside force |
Tone | writer's attitude toward his or her audience and subject |
Mood | atmosphere; feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage |
Inference | a conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning |
Convoluted | twisted in a complicated way |
Verified | proved to be true |
Deftness | skillfulnes |
Imperceptibly | so slowly or slightly as to be barely noticeable |
Reveling | taking great pleasure or delight |
Interminable | endless or seeming endless |
Suspense | a state or feeling of excitement or anxious uncertainty about what is going to happen |
Abruptly | happening suddenly; unexpectedly |
Buffer | lessen a shock; cushion |
Equilibrium | state of balance |
Gauge | measure something's size, amount, extent, or capacity |
Prolonged | extended; lengthy |
Venturing | attempting to do something that involves taking risks |
Proportional | a relationship between two connected amounts, factors or quantities in which an increase in one causes an increase in the other. |
Nostalgia | a sentimental longing or affection for the past |
Anecdote | a short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person |
Trial | a specific experiment or set of experiments within a larger context |
Hypothesis | a tentative theory about the natural world; a concept that is not yet verified but that, if true, would explain certain facts or phenomena |
Complement | a thing that completes or brings to perfection a larger whole |
Imminent | about to happen |
Engross | absorb all the attention or interest of |
Orient | align or position something relative to a known point or landmark |
Paradox | an idea that, despite sound reasoning from acceptable premises, leads to a conclusion that seems senseless, logically unacceptable, or self-contradictory |