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Vocab list 3 and 4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |