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Vocab Mid-Term
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| bilk | to cheat or swindle |
| elated | high spirits; joyful |
| alienate | turn away feelings/ affections |
| lackadaisical | listless; uninterested |
| pensive | dreamily thoughtful |
| obtrude | force oneself into a situation |
| fatalistic | believing that all events in life are inevitable and determined by fate |
| paucity | scarcity; lack |
| numismatist | coin collletor |
| licentous | morally unrestrained |
| dally | waste time; dawdle |
| caricature | exaggerated portrayal of one's features |
| opiate | narcotic used for sleep or pain relief |
| antiquated | no longer used/ useful |
| gorge | eat/ swallow greedily |
| beleaguer | beseige by circling |
| hone | sharpen |
| demented | mentally ill; insane |
| amalgamate | combine |
| ostentatious | showy; pretentious display |
| berserk | state of violent or destructive rage |
| egalitarian | eqaul rights for all |
| chauvinist | having a fanatical devotion to a country, gener, race or religion and opposed to the opposite |
| knead | work dough or clay into a uniform mixture |
| animate | give life or motion to |
| belated | delayed |
| ambidextrous | skillful with either hand |
| edifice | large, elaborate structure |
| laggard | one who falls behind, slow person |
| gratify | to please |
| entice | attract by offering reward or pleasure |
| fealty | obligated loyalty or faithfulness |
| denizen | inhabitant; resident |
| obsequy | funeral rite/ceremony |
| blight | anything that destroys, prevents growth or cause devaluation |
| fallow | inactive; unproductive |
| elude | to escape notice |
| bandy | exchange words casually |
| entity | anything having existence |
| mesmerize | hypnotize |
| ogre | brute |
| charisma | personal appeal/ attraction |
| efface | obliterate; wipe out |
| advocate | recommend; speak in favor of |
| gist | main point |
| jaded | dulled; worn out |
| bibliophile | lover of books |
| quaff | to drink or chug in large quantities |
| gaff | pole with a sharp hook on the end |
| imbue | inspire; influence |
| declaim | speak in a dramatic, impassioned or blustering way |
| enmity | deep-seated hostility, often mutual |
| glutinous | gluey; sticky |
| mandarin | influential person |
| begrudge | resent another's success |
| nepotism | favoritism show to family or friends especially in business or hiring |
| despot | dictator with absolute power |
| felicity | happiness; bliss |
| egress | exit |
| penury | extreme poverty |
| gothic | of the middle ages; mysterious, grotesque and desolate type of fiction |
| cadaverous | live a corpse; pale; gaunt |
| hovel | wretched living place |
| flux | state of continual change or movement |
| daunt | to make afraid |
| gird | to prepare for and event/action |
| elite | choice members of a group |
| allude | hint at |
| desist | stop; discontinue |
| feign | pretend |
| imbibe | drink (alcohol) |
| effrontery | shameless boldness |
| chafe | to wear or irritate |
| glean | to collect bit by bit |
| educe | draw or bring out |
| beget | to produce; make happen |
| ghastly | horrible; frightful |
| fabricate | concoct; make up a story in order to deceive |
| eradicate | wipe out; destroy |
| narcissistic | conceited; excessive self-love |
| lampoon | written satire used to ridicule or attack someone |
| qualm | feeling of uneasiness |
| impede | to hinder or obstruct |
| choleric | easily angered |
| granary | storehouse for grain |
| aghast | feeling great dismay or horror |
| decadence | moral deterioration |
| dialect | regional words used; accent |
| play | piece of drama performed by actors on stage |
| dialogue | words between characters |
| drama | any story told in dialogue form and performed by actors for an audience |
| code switching | practice of moving between variations of languages in different contexts |
| tone | authors attitude towards material |
| diction | word choice of speech or writing |
| antagonist | character/ force that actively works against the protagonist |
| protagonist | main character; usually sympathize with |
| verbal irony | when a person says one thing but means another; what they say has multiple meanings |
| situational irony | the contrast between what someone expects to happen and what actually does |
| dramatic | when a reader or character knows something that another character does not |
| indirect characterization | when an author shows what a character is like |
| direct characterization | when an author directly tells what a character is like |
| symbolism | when one thing has another meaning beyond itself |
| setting | time and place |
| 3rd person limited pt. of view | narrator tells only what one character thinks, feels and observes |
| 3rd person omniscient pt. of view | narrator has access to thoughts, feelings, motives and experiences of all characters |
| 1st person pt. of view | narrated by a character in the story |
| external conflict | person vs. aspect of outside world man vs. nature man vs. society man vs. man |
| internal conflict | man vs. self |
| conflict | a struggle between opposing forces |
| theme | statement about life made by the author |
| static character | does not change as a result of the story |
| dynamic character | undergoes a change as a result of the story |
| resolution | end point |
| falling action | dealing with the fall out; starting to wrap up |
| climax | turning point |
| rising action | the plot thickens; building conflict |
| exposition | intro of the characters and setting; plot |
| plot | events that make up a story |
| fiction | literature with imaginary elements |
| screenplay | type of play written to be filmed |
| act | major unit of action in a play, consisting of several smaller units |
| scene | a small unit of a play which indicates a different time and place |
| cast of characters | all of the characters that are in the play |
| stage directions | information that acts as a guide for directors, performers and stage crews which is in italics and parentheses |
| foils | 2 characters that have opposite traits; emphasize each other |
| nonfiction | deals with real people and real events |
| bias | writers viewpoint (negative or positive) |
| biography | writers account on another person's life; typically subject is well known |
| autobiography | writers account of his or her life |
| memoir | form of autobiographical writing that focuses on a specific section of a person's life |
| speech | type of nonfiction which presents an oral public address of ideas, beliefs, or proposals |
| refrain | repetition of one or more lines in a piece of writing |
| rhetorical question | a question for which an answer is not expected |
| hyperbole | figure of speech in which the truth is exaggerated for emphasis or humor |
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