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English Finals Revie
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Saga | Story of a hero |
| Cuff | To strike or hit |
| Gruesome | horrible,frifhtful,repulsive |
| Desecrete | To disrespect something sacred |
| Hysteria | Emotional panic |
| Rummage | To search through hurriedly;ransack |
| Ominious | Threatening |
| Chaos | Total disorder or confusion |
| Arbitrary | Without logical reason |
| Fervor | Intense emotion |
| Scrapegoat | An innocent person blamed for someone else's problems |
| Brainwashing | Use of forceful,intensive methods to change beliefs |
| Genocide | The systematic elimination of people or a nation |
| Propaganda | Distortions of the truth |
| Prejudice | An attitude towards a person without gathering adequate information about them |
| Holocaust | The term use to refer the systematic elimination of 6 milllion jews. |
| Final Solution | The Nazi term for kiilling the Jews of Europe |
| Swastika | The Nazi party symbol |
| Selection | procedure used to select who would live or die in the camps |
| Auchwitz | A main camp where jews were tortured and killed |
| Organize | To obtain something that belonged to them but was taken away by the Nazis |
| Hermes | Messenger of the gods (winged staff) |
| Zeus | King of the gods (edge) |
| Artemis | God of the hunt and moon (cresent moon) |
| Posedion | God of the sea (trident) |
| Aphrodite | Goddess of love an beauty (dove) |
| Hera | Queen of the gods (cow) |
| Apollo | God of the sun and music (lyre) |
| Demeter | Goddess of agriculture (sheaf of wheat) |
| Dionysus | God of wine and theather (Bunch of grapes) |
| Ares | God of war (vultures) |
| Athena | Goddess of wisdom (owl) |
| Hephaestus | God of fire and forge (anvil) |
| Hestia | Goddess of hearth and home ( hearth) |
| Hades | God of the underworld (bident) |
| Onomonopoeia | When the word descibes the sound it makes |
| Alliteration | When the first beginning leters or syllables that repeat after each other |
| Imagery | Words that alter the senses and help visualize |
| Rhyme scheme | The way that the poem rhymes |
| Personification | Giving human characteristics to a non living thing |
| Clarification | The act of making clear or understandable |
| Lax | not strict |
| Harmonious | Able to get along together well |
| Stalemate | To bring to a standstill |
| Patronize | to provide financially |
| Grueling | Very tiring, calling for an extreme effort |
| Clamor | Any loud and continued noise |
| Mar | To soil, damage |
| Quest | A search, hunt; to seek, search, ask |
| Random | By chance, not planned |
| Countenance | A face, facial expression |
| Meditate | To think about deeply |
| Misdemeanor | Any minor misbehavior or misconduct |
| Dismantle | To take apart, to strip of something |
| Piecemeal | One piece at a time |
| Hoax | An act intended to trick or decieve, a fraud |
| Botch | To repair or patch poorly |
| Stodgy | Dull, Boring, old fashioned |
| Morbid | Extremely gloomy |
| Officiate | To conduct a religious ceremony, to referee |
| Ignited | To set on fire, cause to burn, to heat up |
| Vindictive | Bearing a grudge, feeling or showing a strong tendancy towards revenge |
| Cosmopoitian | Found in most part of the world |
| Mellow | Ripe, well matured |
| Fluctuated | To move up and down |
| Veto | The power to forbid or prevent |
| Meager | Poor, scant, unstastisfactory, thin, slight |
| Inflated | To fill with air or gas |
| Magnitude | The great size or importance of something |
| Indisposed | Slightly ill |
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