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GG Vocab
Pitch Project
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Isinglass | An opaque substance made from the swim bladders of fish. |
| Venerable | Accorded a great deal of respect, especially because of age, wisdom, or character. |
| Dramatic | Sudden or striking; e.g. brilliant and/or contrasting colors. |
| Entrails | Internal organs (heart, lungs, intestines, etc.) |
| Tarnished | Having lost its shine, oxidized(silver turns black, copper turns green, etc) |
| Sullen | Bad-tempered; sulking; gloomy. |
| Free verse | poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme. |
| Irony | A contrast between what is generally expected and what i=has actually happened. |
| Personification | Human characteristic give to non-living things |
| Objections | The action of treating someone or something to the status of a mere object or less than humans. |
| Affix | An additional element placed at the beginning or end of a root, stem, or word, or in the body of a word, to modify its meaning. |
| Prefix | An element placed at the beginning of word to adjust or qualify its meaning. |
| Suffix | A letter or a group of letters attached to the end of a word to form a new word or to change the grammatical function. |
| Root | A word from which other words grow, usually through the addition of affixed. Contains the central meaning of the word. |