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50 Essentials
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Accost | verb- to approach and speak to in an aggressive manner |
| Acquiesce | verb – to consent or disagree silently, to comply passively |
| Affability | noun – quality of being easy to approach and talk to |
| Alacrity | noun – speed, swiftness |
| Amorphous | adjective – without definite form |
| Analogy | noun – a comparison between two unlike things |
| August | adjective – well respected, distinguished, prominent |
| Catalog | noun – list of people, places, or things in a literary work |
| Cognizance | noun – knowledge, awareness |
| Conflagration | noun – a large, destructive fire |
| Copious | adjective – large in quantity, plentiful |
| Decorum | noun – conformity to the approved standards in good taste |
| Deference | noun – courteous respect or regard |
| Diction | noun - writer or speaker’s word choice |
| Ecclesiastical | adjective – of or relating to the church |
| Equanimity | noun – evenness of temper, calmness |
| Expatriated | adjective – banished, exiled |
| Grope | verb – to search blindly |
| Holocaust | noun – great or complete destruction |
| Imagism | noun – literary movement that had short poems using ordinary language and free verse to create sharp exact pictures |
| Incessant | adjective – continuing or following without interruption |
| Infidel | noun – an unbeliever |
| Intimation | noun – a hint, suggestion |
| Irrevocable | adjective – unchangeable |
| Jilt | verb – to drop or reject as a sweetheart |
| Jocular | adjective – humorous |
| Local color | noun – use of characters and details unique to a particular geographic area |
| Loiter | verb – to stand or linger idly or aimlessly about a place |
| Mood | noun – the feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage |
| Mortification | noun – a feeling o f shame, humiliation, embarrassment |
| Obliquely | adverb – in a slanting or sloping direction |
| Paradigm | noun – an example that acts as a model, a pattern |
| Paradox | noun – statement that seems to be contradictory but actually presents a truth |
| Parody | noun – humorous imitation of a literary work |
| Perturbation | noun – agitation, anxiety, uneasiness |
| Perusal | noun – process of examining carefully |
| Piety | noun –religious devoutness, goodness |
| Poignant | adjective – sharp, severe, causing emotional or physical anguish |
| Posterity | noun – generations of the future, all of one’s decendents |
| Progenitor | noun – a direct ancestor |
| Pun | noun – a play on words |
| Regionalism | noun – tendency among certain authors to write about a specific geographic area |
| Satire | noun – type of writing that ridicules or criticizes social conventions |
| Stream of – consciousness | noun – narrative technique that presents thoughts as if they are coming directly from the character’s mind |
| Style | noun – a writer’s way of writing; includes word choice, rhythm, sentence length, organization |
| Tone | noun – a writer’s attitude toward his/her subject, characters or audience |
| Vernacular | noun – the ordinary language of people in a particular region |
| Virulent | adjective extreme poisonous or harmful |
| Wane | verb – to decrease gradually, to decline |
| Writhe | verb – to twist in great pain |
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