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Vocabulary Set-5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Bazaar | a large shop selling miscellaneous goods (a market). |
| Commerce | the exchange of goods, services, or something of value between businesses. |
| Decimated | kill, destroy, or remove a large percentage of. |
| Decreed | order something; command, rule, dictate. |
| Desolation | a state of complete emptiness or destruction (Misery or loneliness). |
| Dominance | power and influence over others |
| Hyperbole | is a deliberate, extravagant, and often outrageous exaggeration. |
| Motif | is a term that describes a pattern or strand of imagery or symbolism in a work of literature. |
| Satire | refers to the use of humorous devices like irony, understatement, and exaggeration to highlight a human folly or a societal problem. |
| Sarcasm | is the use of verbal irony in which a person appears to be praising something but is actually insulting. |
| Understatement | is the opposite of hyperbole. It is the kind of irony that deliberately represents something as being much less than it really is. |
| Symbolism | is the use of any object, person, place, or action that has a meaning in itself while standing for something larger than itself, such as a quality, attitude, belief, or value. |