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Word Wright
English 2 Accel
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Chopping Block | a thick, often large block of wood on which meat, vegetables, etc., are placed for cutting, trimming, chopping, and the like. |
| Lurk | to lie or wait in concealment, as a person in ambush; remain in or around a place secretly or furtively |
| Avocation | something a person does in addition to a principal occupation, especially for pleasure; hobby |
| Stake | a stick or post pointed at one end for driving into the ground as a boundary mark, part of a fence, support for a plant, etc. |
| Alight | to dismount from a horse, descend from a vehicle, etc. |
| Hulking | heavy and clumsy; bulky. |
| Mortal | subject to death; having a transitory life |
| Divining Rod | a rod, especially a forked stick, commonly of hazel, supposed to be useful in locating underground water, metal deposits, etc. |
| Vocation | a particular occupation, business, or profession; calling. |
| Grandiloquent | speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic. |
| Didactic | intended for instruction; instructive |
| Colloquialism | characteristic of or appropriate to ordinary or familiar conversation rather than formal speech or writing; informal. |
| Pentameter | a line of verse consisting of five metrical feet |
| Dactyl/Dactylic | a foot of three syllables, one long followed by two short in quantitative meter, or one stressed followed by two unstressed in accentual meter |
| Ethical | pertaining to or dealing with morals or the principles of morality; pertaining to right and wrong in conduct. |
| Diction | style of speaking or writing as dependent upon choice of words |
| Whimsy | capricious humor or disposition; extravagant, fanciful, or excessively playful expression |
| Oratorical | of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a public speaker, especially one of great eloquence |
| Metaphoric | a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance |
| Trimeter | a verse of three measures or feet |
| Hexameter | consisting of six metrical feet |
| Arcane | known or understood by very few; mysterious; secret; obscure; esoteric: |
| Antithetical | of the nature of or involving opposition; contrast |
| Concrete | constituting an actual thing or instance; real |
| Wheedling | to endeavor to influence (a person) by smooth, flattering, or beguiling words or acts |
| Idiomatic | peculiar to or characteristic of a particular language or dialect |
| Tetrameter | a verse of four feet. |
| Iamb/Iambic | a foot of two syllables, a short followed by a long in quantitative meter, or an unstressed followed by a stressed in accentual meter |
| Anapest/Anapestic | a foot of three syllables, two short followed by one long in quantitative meter, and two unstressed followed by one stressed in accentual meter |
| Trochee/Trochaic | a foot of two syllables, a long followed by a short in quantitative meter, or a stressed followed by an unstressed in accentual meter |
| Aphoristic | of, like, or containing a terse saying embodying a general truth, or astute observation |
| Twain | two |
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dinagreenberg
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