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Vocab & Lit List 7
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| pretext | an excuse |
| fabricate | to lie; to construct |
| adroit | skillful |
| gesticulate | move arms energetically |
| vigilant | watchful |
| mood | the atmosphere within a literary work with the intention of creating a certain emotion or feeling from the audience |
| tone | the attitudes toward the subject and toward the audience implied in a literary work |
| inference | A conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning |
| context | The circumstances that form the setting for an event, statement, or idea, and in terms of which it can be fully understood and assessed |
| affixes | An additional element placed at the beginning or end of a root, stem, or word, or in the body of a word, to modify its meaning |