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Vocab list 3 and 4
Question | Answer |
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One that serves as a pattern or model. | Paradigm |
Intense, forcefulness of expression/full of rigor or energy - like a storm | Vehement |
Everyday. common place/daily. | Quotidian |
Relating to a tempest (violant windstorm agitation/commotion/an uproar.) | temptestuous |
Underlying base or foundation esp. for organization or system. | infastructure |
The use of words to something different/opposite their literal. | Irony |
Having harmful affect. | Deleterious |
Eating and drinking in moderation | Abstemious |
Redundancy - needless repitition (widow) | Tautologies |
worked/put together/created or shaped by hammering with tools (wrought iron) not rough or crude. | Wrought |
To seize and hold by force and without legal authority. To take over or occupy without right. | Usurp |
Playfully jocular/humorous. | Facetious |
Mournful, dismal, gloomy, to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree. | Lugurbious |
Impossible to dispute/unquestionable. | Incontrovertible |
One of the same or similar or kind/uniform in structure. | Homogeneous |
To repeat in concise form. | Recapitulate |
dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks with him/herself or reveals his thoughts and feelings – to no particular listener (monologue – ish). | Soliloquy |
basic unit of currency in Europe. | Euro |