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WordWright Vocab
| 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 |
| 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 | massive, cumbersome, ponderous. |
| Mortal | Subjecting to death. |
| Divining Rod | Of or pertaining to a god, especially the Supreme Being. |
| Twain | Two |
| Vocation | A particular occupation, business, or profession; calling. |
| Grandiloquent | Speaking in a high manner. |
| Didactic | Intended for instruction; instructive |
| Colloquialism | Familiar conversation, rather than formal. |
| Pentameter | A line of verse consisting of five metrical feet. |
| Dactyl/Dactylic | One long syllable, two short syllables. |
| 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 | Public speaker. |
| 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 | A dactylic line of six feet |
| Arcane | Known or understood by very few. |
| Antithetical | Of the nature of or involving contrast. |
| Concrete | Constituting an actual thing or instance. |
| 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 | Lines written in a certain rhythm,and syllables. |
| Anapest/Anapestic | Two short syllables followed by one long in quantitative meter. |
| Trochee/Trochaic | A long syllable followed by a short in quantitative meter. |
| Aphoristic | Original thought, spoken or written in a concise and memorable form. |
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Raheema
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