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vocabularyfinallist
words/defintions
| word | Definition |
|---|---|
| accumulate | get or gather together |
| calculating | shrewd,scheming |
| emphasis | thought,feeling.action |
| derogatory | insulting,belittling |
| famished | starving,weak from hunger |
| persuasive | inducing to believe,convincing |
| receptive | willing to accept new idea,information |
| sarcastic | in a mean way, intent to hurt |
| ghetto | section of city where minority group lives |
| conflagration | a large destructive fire |
| narrator | the voice of the person telling the story |
| imitate | mimic someone,to act the same as another |
| theme | idea about life expressed in literary work |
| metaphor | figures of speech that compares two unlike things without using like or as |
| personification | a figure of speech in which a thing is given human qualities |
| bonus word-languor | listlessness,lack of interest or spirit |