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L.A. Vocabulary #2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| confrontation | a hostile or argumentative meeting or situation between opposing parties |
| point of view | a particular attitude or way of considering matter |
| perspective | point of view |
| connotation | an idea or feeling associated with a work beyond its literal meaning |
| denotation | the literal or primary meaning of a word |
| literal | taking words in their most basic, exact sense |
| figurative | taking words in a metaphorical sense |
| prose | written or spoken language in its ordinary, not poetic, form |
| horror | a literary genre designed to scare the living snot out of you |
| dismember | to chop a body into pieces |
| decapitate | to chop a head off a body |
| defenestrate | to push someone out of a window |
| suffocate | die or cause to die from lack of air or inability to breathe |
| exsanguinate | to drain of blood |
| archaic | very old-fashioned |
| keen | to wail in grief for the dead |
| macabre | gruesome, horrorfying |
| mournful | sorrowful, sad |
| premonition | a forewarning |
| entomb | to place in at tomb; bury |
| phantom | ghost;apparition; specter |
| amulet | protective; charm |
| conjure | to produce as if by magic |
| exhume | to dig something buried out of the earth |
| stench | on offensive smell |
| crypt | an underground tomb |
| noun | a part of speech that names a person, place, thing, or idea |
| pronoun | a part of speech that replaces a noun |
| adjective | a part of speech that describes a noun or a pronoun |
| verb | a part of speech that shows action or being |
| adverb | a part of speech that describes a verb, an adjective, or another adverb |
| conjunction | a part of speech that links words, phrases, and clauses |
| coordinating conjunctions | for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so |
| all forms of the verb "be" | am, are, is, was, were, be, being, been |
| declarative sentence | a sentence that makes a statement |
| interrogative | a sentence that asks a question |
| imperative sentence | a request or command |
| exclamatory sentence | a sentence that shows emotion |