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English 10 Midterm
Bethlehem Catholic-Mrs. Tully-English 10-Midterm Review
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| ambidextrous | (adj) able to use both hands equally well; very skillful; deceitful, hypocritical |
| augment | (v) to make larger; increase |
| bereft | (adj) deprived of; made unhappy through a loss |
| deploy | (v) to position or arrange; to utilize; to form up |
| tentative | (adj) experimental in nature; uncertain, hesitant |
| feasible | (adj) possible; able to be done |
| grimace | (n) a wry face; facial distortion (v) to make a wry face |
| impetus | (n) a moving force, impulse, stimulus |
| nostalgia | (n) a longing for something past; homesickness |
| tepid | (adj) lukewarm; unenthusiastic, marked by an absence of interest |
| fallow | (adj) plowed but not seeded; inactive; reddish-yellow (n) land left unseeded (v) to plow but not seed |
| inclement | (adj) stormy, harsh; severe in attitude or action |
| perpetuate | (v) to make permanent or long lasting |
| redress | (v) to set right, remedy (n) relief from wrong or injury |
| urbane | (adj) refined in manner or style, suave |
| cogent | (adj) forceful, convincing; relevant, to the point |
| disperse | (v) to scatter, spread far and wide |
| esteem | (v) to regard highly (n) a highly favorable opinion or judgement |
| finite | (adj) having limits; lasting for a limited time |
| skulk | (v) to move about stealthily; to lie in hiding |
| assent | (v) to express agreement (n) agreement |
| benefactor | (n) one who does good to others |
| facile | (adj) easily done or attained; superficial; ready, fluent, easily shown but not sincerely felt |
| plod | (v) to walk heavily or slowly; to work slowly |
| remiss | (adj) neglectful in performance of one's duty, careless |
| brandish | (v) to wave or flourish in a menacing or vigorous fashion |
| deft | (adj) skillful, nimble |
| ironic | (adj) suggesting an incongruity between what might be excepted and what actually happens; given to irony, sarcastic |
| pinnacle | (n) a peak or high point |
| supple | (adj) bending easily; bending with agility; readily adaptable; servile |
| amend | (v) to change in a formal way; to change for the better |
| corrosive | (adj) eating away gradually; acidlike; bitterly sarcastic |
| renegade | (n) one who leaves a group; a deserter, outlaw (adj) traitorous; unconventional, unorthodox |
| squalid | (adj) filthy, wretched, debased |
| waive | (v) to do without, give up voluntarily; to put off temporarily, defer |
| apathy | (n) a lack of feeling, emotion, or interest |
| commend | (v) to praise, express approval; to present as worthy of attention; to commit to the care of |
| consecrate | (v) to make sacred, hallow; to set apart for a special purpose |
| revel | (v) to take great pleasure in (n) a wild celebration |
| suave | (adj) smoothly agreeable or polite; pleasing to the senses |
| theme | -a central message or insight into life revealed by a literary work -often directly stated in the thesis statement of an essay -in fiction, it is indirectly stated (implied) |
| symbol | anything that stands for or represents something else -conventional- one that is widely known and accepted -personal- one developed for a particular work by a particular author |
| motif | a recurring element, such as a type of incident, a device, or reference |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else |
| simile | a figure of speech that makes a direct comparison between two subjects, using either like or as |
| alliteration | a repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words or accented symbols |
| anecdote | a short and amusing or interesting story about an incident or person |
| rhetorical devices | used to clarify and balance ideas; evoke emotions |
| parallelism | rhetorical device that uses a repetition of words, phrases, clauses, or sentences that have the same grammatical structure or the same meaning |
| antithesis | a form of parallelism that emphasizes strong contrasts |
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