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GG Vocabulary
Pitch Project Vocabulary
| Definition | Term |
|---|---|
| An opaque substance made from the swim bladders of fish | Isinglass |
| Accorded a great deal of respect especially because of age, wisdom, character | Venerable |
| Sudden or striking: brilliant or contrasting colors | Dramatic |
| Internal organs | Entrails |
| Having lost its shine, oxidized | Tarnished |
| Bad tempered, sulking, gloomy | Sullen |
| Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme | Free-Verse |
| A contrast between what is generally expected and what actually happens | Irony |
| The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something non-human | Personification |
| The action of treating someone or something to the status of a mere object or less than human | Objectification |
| An additional element placed at the beginning or end of a root, stem, or word, or in the body of the word to modify its meaning | Affix |
| An element placed at the beginning of a word to adjust or qualify its meaning | Prefix |
| A letter or group of letters attached to the end of a word to form a new word or to change the grammatical function | Suffix |
| A word from which grows usually in addition of affixes, suffix's, central meaning | Root |