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Eng12 Final Review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| arbritration | hearing and determining of a dispute or settling of differences by a person chosen or agreed to by them |
| bequeath | to leave or give up by will |
| impartial | not biased, unprediced |
| indemnity | security against damage or injury |
| indict | accuse of wrongdoing |
| jurisprudence | system of laws |
| premeditate | to plan in advance |
| redress | to set right |
| Allege | to assert without proof |
| Compulsory | required; mandatory |
| Extortion | the crime of obtaining money or some other thing of value by the abuse of one's office or authority |
| Filch | to steal (esp. something of small value) |
| Harass | to disturb persistently |
| Impending | imminently threatening or menacing |
| Incarcerate | to imprison |
| Pecuniary | involving a money penalty or fine |
| Restitution | reparation made by giving an equivalent or compensation for loss, damage, or injury caused |
| Waive | to relinquish intentionally |
| prattle | chatter; talk too much |
| obsequious | obedient; compliant |
| homage | tribute; honor |
| incense | gum or spice producing a sweet smell when burned |
| vexation | annoying or distressing thing |
| rebuke | express sharp disapproval to a person for a fault |
| perdition | external damnation |
| suppliant | a person asking humbly for something |
| lamentation | passionat expression of greif |
| imprecation | to invoke - to curse |
| impunity | freedom from punishment or injury |
| primeval | at the earliest times of the world, ancient |
| piety/ pious | devout in religion |
| arduous | strenuous, difficult - full of hardship |
| confabulation | to talk casually - chat |
| pestiferous | producing, causing, or contaminated with an infection disease |
| impeccable | having no flaws |
| eccentric | departing from a conventional pattern |
| compunction | a strong uneasiness caused by guilt |
| insolent | disrespectfully arrogant |
| infirmity | a bodily aliment or weakness |
| maleficent | doing evil or harm; harmfully malicious |
| malfunction | failure to function properly |
| malign | to speak harmful untruths about; speak evil of; slander |
| malodorous | having an unpleasant or offensive odor |
| improvident | neglecting to take future into account |
| scourge | whip (especially for punishment or tourture) |
| gnashed | to grind the teeth together (esp. in rage or pain) |
| suppressed | to put an end to the activities |
| sinister | threatening evil, harm, or trouble |
| incipient | beginning to exist or appear - initial stage |
| revere | to regard with respect |
| rigorously | severely exact |
| genial | warmly and pleasantly cheerful; cordial |
| overtone | an additional, usually subsidiary and implicit meaning or quality |
| emissary | a representative sent on a mission or errand |
| improvident | neglecting to provide for future needs |
| mirth | amusement or laughter |
| prosperity | a successful, flourishing, or thriving condition |
| imperious | urgent; imperative; domineering in a haughty manner |
| oracular | of the nature of, resembling, or suggesting an oracle |
| machination | an act or instance of machinating (to contrive or plot, esp. with evil purpose) |
| unabashed | not ashamed or embarrassed |
| contempt | mean, vile, worthless |
| resignation | act of resigning |
| reviled | speak of abusively |
| churlishly | rude |
| misshapen | deformed |
| trivial | little importance or value |
| vengeance | violent revenge |
| tranquility | calmness, peacefulness |
| adversity | misfortune, calamity, distress |
| melancholy | a gloomy state of mind |
| nostalgia | a wistful desire to return in thought or to a former time in one's life |
| burden | that which is carried |
| prospect | probability of advancement or success |
| inevitability | unavoidable |
| amorous | inclined or disposed to love |
| philosophical | of or pertaining to philosophy |
| jovial | endowed with a hearty, joyous humor |
| fortitude | mental and emotional strength in facing difficulty |
| rigor | strictness, severity, or harshness |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance |
| oxymoron | a figure of speech with an incongruent, seemingly self-contradictory effect, as in “cruel kindness” |
| alliteration | the commencement of two or more stressed syllables of a word group either with the same consonant sound or sound group (consonantal alliteration), as in from stem to stern |
| simile | a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared, as in “she is like a rose.” |
| hyperbole | an extravagant statement or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally, as “to wait an eternity.” |
| personification | the attribution of a personal nature or character to inanimate objects or abstract notions |
| allusion | a passing or casual reference; an incidental mention of something, either directly or by implication |
| onomatopoeia | the formation of a word, as cuckoo or boom, by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent |
| pun | a play on words |
| apostrophe | the sign ('), as used: to indicate the omission of one or more letters in a word |
| antithesis | the placing of a sentence or one of its parts against another to which it is opposed to form a balanced contrast of ideas, as in “Give me liberty or give me death.” |
| parallelism | a parallel or comparison |
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