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Penny Vocab review
Vocab Review for Final Exam
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| abrogate | To abolish, often by authority |
| abundant | In great numbers |
| algid | frigid,cold |
| Alliteration | Alliteration is the repetition of the first consonant sound in a phrase. A common example in English is "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled |
| Allusion | An allusion is a figure of speech that makes a reference or representation of or to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, myth… |
| Antagonist | The main character opposing the protagonist in a literary work or drama |
| Assonance | The repetition or a pattern of similar sounds, especially vowel sounds, as in the tongue twister "Moses supposes his toeses are roses. |
| blandish | to coax through flattery |
| boisterous | Loud, energetic |
| brumal | wintry, pertaining to winter |
| burgeon | To come forth, blossom |
| cadence | rhythm |
| cavort | To frolic, leap, prance |
| clairvoyant | Able to see and detect things another cannot |
| Cogent | Intelligent, viable |
| colossus | An enormous structure |
| commendable | Worthy of praise |
| commodious | Spacious, roomy |
| cosmopolitan | Worldly, sophisticated |
| daft | Insane, foolish |
| deft | skilled |
| diligent | Careful, showing care |
| douse | To drench, saturate |
| Entomology | Study of insects |
| exorbitant | excessive |
| External conflict | Conflict between two characters or a force in nature. |
| extravagant | Excessive, over-the-top |
| fabricate | To invent, make up |
| facile | easy |
| fatuous | Silly, foolish |
| fecund | fertile |
| fetter | To restrain |
| fey | magical |
| figurative | not literal |
| flabbergasted | astounded, stupefied |
| flaccid | limp |
| flattery | compliments |
| forage | to rummage, scavenge, graze for food |
| forestall | To delay |
| fortuitous | lucky |
| goad | v-to urge or provoke |
| gregarious | outgoing |
| hapless | unlucky |
| hiatus | break |
| hiemal | Wintry, pertaining to winter |
| Hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration |
| Imagery | the use of words and phrases that appeal to the five senses |
| impecunious | extremely poor |
| incessant | without stopping |
| ingenious | adj--marked by special intelligence |
| iniquity | wicked act, sin |
| innocuous | harmless |
| inquisitor | one who asks questions |
| internal conflict | A conflict that takes place within the mind if a character. |
| Irony | Saying one thing while meaning another. Irony occurs when a word or phrase has one surface meaning, but another contradictory meaning beneath the surface |
| latent | Present but hidden |
| lewd | rude, not moral |
| licentious | lewd, immoral |
| mandatory | required |
| Meritorious | Deserving of praise or merit |
| Metaphor | A comparison of two unlike things NOT using like or as |
| myriad | Consisting of a great number |
| narrate | to tell a story |
| neologism | Creation of new words |
| neonate | a newborn baby |
| notoriety | n--infamy |
| Onomatopoeia | is a word or words that imitates the sound it is describing, suggesting its source object, such as "click", "bunk", "clang", "buzz", "bang", or animal noises such as "oink", "moo", or "meow". ... |
| Ostracize | To exclude from a community |
| Oxymoron | A figure of speech in which two words with opposing meanings are used together intentionally for effect |
| paragon | A model of perfection |
| pariah | An outcast |
| perfunctory | done with duty , with little feeling |
| persevere | To persist |
| Personification | a figure of speech in which non-human things are given with human qualities |
| Peruse | To examine carefully |
| pervasive | To spread throughout |
| Placate | To soothe, appease |
| plethora | A great number |
| pliable | flexible |
| Plot | All fiction is based on conflict and this conflict is presented in a structured format called PLOT. |
| poach | To hunt or fish illegally |
| Point-of-view | the perspective from which the story is told |
| profane | indecent blasphemous |
| profuse | abundant |
| Protagonist | The main character in the story |
| quotidian | Daily, everyday |
| radiant | Bright, beaming |
| Redact | To revise, edit |
| sacrosanct | Sacred, holy |
| Seminal | Original, groundbreaking |
| serendipity | the art of finding things not sought |
| Setting | When and where something takes place |
| Simile | A comparison of two unlike things using like or as |
| subsist | v--to live or exist |
| symbol | anything that stands for something else. |
| synopsis | summary |
| Theme | The main idea or underlying meaning of a literary work |
| Tome | A Large book |
| Vast | Enormous, immense |
| Voluminous | Large, ample |
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jeanmarie01
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