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Hon.English 9 Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Positioned in or relating to the sky, or outer space as observed in astronomy. | Celestial |
| To prop or support | Statuminate |
| Reserved or uncommunicative in speech; saying little | Taciturn |
| A person who acts obsequiously toward someone in order to gain advantage; a servile flatterer | Sycophant |
| The study of the forms of things in particular | Morphology |
| A state of physical or mental weariness; lack of energy. | Lassitude |
| Of or connected with an overwhelming amount | Diluvian |
| A recessed cupboard in the wall of a church near the altar, used to store sacred stuff. | Aumbry |
| A sudden outburst or violent expression of a particular emotion or activity | Paroxysm |
| A large-scale and violent event in the natural world | Cataclysm |
| Showing a lack of courage or determination; timid | Pusillanimous |
| (Esp. of sound) Sweet and soothing (often used ironically) | Dulcet |
| Beauty, loveliness | Pulchritude |
| An event causing great and often sudden damage or distress; a disaster. | Calamity |
| An aggressive dog or one that is in poor condition; A contemptible man | Cur |
| Producing good effects; beneficial; referring to something unwelcoming | Salutary |
| To melt or decompose | Deliquesce |
| Neither parallel nor at a right angle to a specified or implied line; slanting. | Oblique |
| True or full | Thural |
| A speech or discourse that encourages, incites, or earnestly advises. | Exhortation |
| To drive away or off by or as if by scattering; to rid one’s mind of something. | Dispel |
| Noisy and disorderly. | Tumultuous |
| To reject with contempt or scorn. | Spurn |
| To invoke evil upon; curse. | Imprecate |
| To cause to separate and go in different directions. | Dissipate |
| Attractiveness. | Allurements |
| To stand idly about; linger aimlessly; to proceed slowly or with many stops. | Loiter |
| To be driven or carried along, as by the air. | Waft |
| An event that is experienced as indicating important things to come; an omen. | Augury |
| A short interval of rest or relief. | Respite |
| To summon (a devil or spirit) by magical or supernatural power. | Conjure |
| A daydream. | Reverie |
| Stubbornly adhering to an attitude, opinion, or course of action. | Obstinate |
| To get by special effort; obtain or acquire. | Procure |
| Skeptical; disbelieving. | Incredulous |
| Facial features, especially when regarded as revealing character. | Physiognomy |
| Freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility); rest. | Repose |
| A solemn and earnest appeal to someone to do something. | Adjuration |
| A declaration that is made emphatically (as if no supporting evidence were necessary). | Asseveration |
| Impossible to remedy, correct, or repair; | Irremediable |
| A common meter in poetry consisting of an unrhymed line with five feet of accents, each foot containing an unaccented syllable and an accented syllable. | Iambic pentameter |
| A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable. (Ex: Life is a Journey) | Metaphor |
| A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind. (Ex: As brave as a lion.) | Simile |
| Word choices of the author; the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing. | Diction |
| A writer's use of words which connect to a reader's sense of sight, touch, taste, smell, or hearing in order to develop a mood. | Sensory Imagery |
| A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction (Ex: faith unfaithful kept him falsely true) | Oxymoron |
| In poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in non-rhyming stressed syllables (Ex: penitence, reticence) | Assonance |
| The use of symbols to represent ideas of qualities. | Symbolism |
| The subject of a piece of writing/dominant idea. | Theme/motif |
| The inversion of the usual order of words or clauses. | Anastrophe |
| The repetition of the words or phrase at the end of one sentence, line, or clause at the beginning of the next. | Anadiplosis |
| The use of one part of speech as another part of speech. | Anthimeria |
| A reversal in the order of words in two otherwise parallel phrases, as in “He went to the country, to the town went she.” | Chiasmus |
| Persistent repetition of the same plea in much the same words. | Epimone |
| Using several conjunctions in close succession, especially where some might be omitted (Ex: He ran and jumped and laughed for joy). | Polysyndeton |
| The use of successive verbal constructions in poetry or prose that correspond in grammatical structure, sound, meter, meaning, etc. | Parallelism |
| Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally. | Hyperbole |
| The omission of conjunctions from constructions in which they would normally be used. Ex: Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils, Shrunk to this little measure?) | Asyndeton |
| The continuation of a sentence or clause over a line-break. | Enjambment |
| An original model or type after which other similar things are patterned; a prototype. | Archetype |
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