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Vocab Review
Vocabulary Exam Review
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Redemption | Atonement for guilt; deliverance; rescue |
| Affluent | Having an abundance of wealth, property or other material goods |
| Bellicose | Someone who is eager to fight |
| Nemesis | An opponent or rival whom a person cannot overcome or best |
| Sociopath | A person with a psychopathic personality whose behavior is antisocial, often criminal, and who lacks a sense of moral resonsibility |
| Garrulous | Excessively talkative, ina rambling roundabout manner |
| Melee | Struggle among several people; hand to hand combat |
| Intricacies | An intricate part of action |
| Congenital | An inherited or environmental birth defect |
| Oscillating | To swing back and forth with a steady and uninterrupted rhythm |
| Trepidation | A feeling of fear |
| Nuances | A subtel or slight difference, as a meaning, feeling or tone |
| Propaganda | Information or rumors deliberately spread, widely to help or harm a person, group, sect. |
| Euphemisims | Substitution of a mild, indirect or vague expression for one seen to be harsh |
| Loaded Words | Words that elicit a strong emotional response and influences the reader either positively or negatively, beyond the literal meaning and can significantly contribute to persuading others to adopt that Point of View |
| Denotation | The strict dictionary meaning of a word |
| Connotation | Emotional associations that have become attached to a word, emotional or imaginative associations surrounding a word |
| Bourgeois | Of or characteristic of the middle class, typically with reference to its perceived materialistic values or conventional attitudes |
| Cursory | Often done rapidly without attention to details, hastily done |
| Facade | An artificial or deceptive front |
| Morose | Gloomy, sad, fretful |
| Abhor | To regard with disgust or hatred |
| Human Rights | A right that is believed to belong justifiably to every person. Basic rights and freedoms |
| Fundamentalists | Those who advocate the replacement of secular law with religious law in accordance to literal translations of sacred texts such as the Bible or Qur'an |
| Cretin | A stupid, obtuse or mentally defective person |
| Epiphany | A sudden, intuitive perception of or insight into the reality or essential meaning of something |
| Furtive | A shifty glance toward someone or something |
| Lucrative | Profitable, money producing |
| Pungent | Sharply affecting the organs of taste or smell, as if by a penetrating power |
| Sauntered | To walk with a leisurely gait; stroll |
| Palliative | To lessen or relieve without curing |
| Collateral | Security pledged for the repayment of a loan |
| Surly | Rude or bad tempered; hostile, unfriendly |
| Surreal | Dream-like |
| Irrevocably | Not to be revoked or recalled; unalterable |
| Phantasm | An illusory likeness of something |
| Entreating | Requesting entrance |
| Plume | A feather or feather-like |
| Euphony | Pleasant sounding; pleasing to the ear |
| Turbulency | Disorder; commotion or even violence |
| Surcease | To cease or stop |
| Runic | Having a secret or mysterious meaning or rhythm |
| Internal Rhyme | Rhyme of words within lines of poetry; a word in the middle of the line will rhyme with a word at the end of that line. |
| End Rhyme | Rhyme of words at the ends of lines of poetry |
| Quaff | To drink |
| Mien | A persons manner, their demeanor |
| Melancholy | A feeling of sadness |
| Tinnabulation | A small ringing sound |
| Crystalline | Sight that sparkles or glows pleasingly |
| Brazen | Made of brass; harsh |
| Immolation | To be killed as a sacrafice |
| Aperture | An opening or hole |
| Trepidation | Feeling of fear that something bad may happen |
| Equivocal | Uncertain or questionable in nature |
| Eschew | To avoid |
| Shroud | Cloth used to wrap or cover a corpse |
| Monotonous | Repetitive or dull |
| Voluptuous | Very luxurious or sensual |
| Pestilence | A deadly or virulent epidemic |
| Candelabrum | An ornamental branched candle holder |
| Torpid | Of little energy or movement, lethargic |
| Paroxysm | Sudden violent emotions, movements or actions |
| Cadaverous | Of or like a corpse |
| Vivacious | Lively, animated, gay |
| Surmounted | To overcome; as in a problem or hardship |
| Motley | Incongruously varied in appearance |
| Stolid | Having or revealing little emotion |
| Refracted | To be eflected from a straight path |
| Imperceptibly | Impossible to detect by ordinary senses |
| Pulverized | Reduced to powder |
| Melancholy | Sadness; gloominess |
| Capillary | Fine; small in diameter |
| Multifaceted | Having many faces |
| Ballistics | The study of the dynamics of projectiles |
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