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vocabullary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1. ________________________ accepting others, including race religion, and different than others. S= | tolerance |
| to ruin the appearance of something to deface. S= | disfigure |
| serious or earnest; | solemn |
| an action word or word of being; Jump= Action verb, Is , are= Verbs of being. | verb |
| a word used in place of a noun Bill = he, Bill and Bob ="They" EX | pronoun |
| to bear hardship; to last; to hold out against. S= | endure |
| to last; S= | L* Durare |
| temporary stop or rest. | pause |
| a main idea or message about life, society, nature, a novel a poem etc. EX= | them |
| a unit or arrangement of lines in a poem, sometimes with a fixed length, meter or rhyme. EX= | Stanza |
| a word having the same meaning as another word. People, humans. EX= | Synonym |
| a name of a person, place, animal or a thing. N= Table N=same | Noun |
| method of operating | L* Modus operandi |
| In order of time | chronological |
| rules of behavior i proper conduct. | etiquette |
| five | penta |
| father of time | Chronos |
| a black stone found in 1799 that enabled archaeologists to decipher hieroglyphics. | Rosetta Stone |
| Comparison using like or as. Ex: I like food | simile |
| when the narrator tells the story as "I" Ex: I like | First person point of view |
| the problem that controls the action in a story. s= | Conflict |
| a word that describes an verb, adjective or other adverbs | Adverb |
| a neuter or unstressed syllable Ex: the letter "e" in system | Schwa |
| replacement of a missing body part | prosthetic |
| a dummy or a model | Mannequin |
| do you understand | Cheapish |
| a covering from head to toe | Veil |
| the art of making fireworks | pyrotechnics |
| a pile for burning a dead body | pyre |
| our, usually in exaggeration or ecsess | hyper |
| breathing abnormally fast and deep | hyperventilate |
| the entry to the U.S. immigrants between 1892-1930 | Ellis Island |
| A figure of speech in witch an animate or abstraction is endowed with human qualities or ability | Personification |
| A poem that consist of 14 lines | Sonnet |
| to determined or express the quantity of something | Quantify |
| a group people or some who keeps other out | Clique |
| the last six lines in a poem | sestet |
| the last 8 lines in a poem | octave |
| a statue that is several times larger than life size | colossus |
| size the day | Carpe Diem |
| day | Diem |
| fear of something | phobia |
| fear of the outside | Agoraphobia |
| a body wound or shock a psychological experience that product injury | Trauma |
| wound | Trauma |
| an, is, are, was, were being | forms of to be |
| describing a word | Adjective |
| an expert in finding water using a divinig rod | Dowser |
| acting without thinking; spontaneous reaction | impulsive |
| a stupid or silly person | imbecile |
| one who destroys property | vandal |
| the act of destroying property | vandalize |
| an Germanic tribe who pillaged and destroy the city of Rome | Vandals |
| a plan to hide the truth | subterfuge |
| driven | impelled |
| Extreme happiness | ecstasy |
| spreed throughout | suffused |
| out of the ordinary abnormal | anomalous |
| a hint ore clue for the reader that hints at what may happen later | Foreshadow |
| something that goes on forever | Ad infinittum |
| late or tardy | belated |
| when the outcome in a story is different than what was expected | Irony of the situation |
| a figure of speech in witch an implied comparison is made between two unlike things | Metaphor |
| secret pursuit of some one | stalk |
| land | Terra |
| Land | Terrain |
| complicated | intricate |
| cunning using deceit or evasion | crafty |
| someone who predicts the future; a person who spears with divine interpretation | prophet |
| being predictive | Prophetic |
| the stage of adolescent in witch an individual becomes physically capable of sexual reproduction | puberty |
| a person who has not reached puberty | Prepubescent |
| wild or frantic | Frenzied |
| lacking in advantage not enough food sleep etc. | deprived |
| compulsion of force | duress |
| in a daze or stupor unresponsive | catatonic |
| a type of sugar the main sugar in your blood | Glucose |
| higher than normal glucose level in the blood | diabetes |
| keeps the level of glucose in your blood at a normal level | Insulin |
| destiny | fate |
| food | provisions |
| to push or crowd | jostle |
| fire | Ingne |
| Secret | furtive |
| tired from hard work | weary |
| free from spots or stains spotlessly clean | immaculate |
| the act or recalling a past event | reminiscence |
| wearing worn or shabby clothing | shabby |
| my fault | Mea culpa |
| between two stars: interrestiral visitors from another planet | interstellar |
| an international organization located in N.Y.C that was developed to promote international peace | United Nations |
| without previsions existence; never happened before | Unprecedented |
| reason | motive |
| biology involving how a living organism or body part functions | physiology |
| a machine that determines whether a person is telling the truth | lie detector |
| one thousand years | millennium |
| unselfish interest in the wealth fare of others | altruism |
| a sign or symbol, used in such writing systems as those of China or Japan, that directly represents a concept, idea, or thing rather than a word or set of words for it | ideograph |
| an expression that means something other than the literal meaning. | Idiom |
| an expression that means something other than the literal meaning. | pun |
| an expression that means something other than the literal meaning. | summit |
| money paid in exchange for the release of a kidnapping or captive person. | Ransom |
| love of | philo |
| off spring or children | progeny |
| dealing or cheating someone | fraud |
| an indirect reference to a biblical story. | biblical allusion |
| to hide | conceal |
| police officer | constable |
| a blood sucking worm or a person who clings to another for gain. | leech |
| a phrase or figure of speech that has two meanings | double entered |
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marckenrho
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