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Go Grow Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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Isinglass | Opaque substance made from swim bladders of fish |
Venerable | Accorded a great deal of respect because of age, wisdom, character |
Dramatic | Sudden or striking e:g: brilliant, contrasting colors |
Entrails | Internal organs |
Tarnished | Having lost its shine; oxidized |
Sullen | Bad tempered; sulking; gloomy |
Free verse | Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme |
Irony | Contrast between what is generally expected and what actually happened |
Personification | A human characteristic given to something nonhuman |
Objectification | Treating someone or something to the status of a object or less than human |
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 a 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 the grammatical function |
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