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Wordwisunit5
WW Unit 5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| clergy | a group of people who have been formally appointed to religious service |
| repository | a place where things are stored |
| necessity | needed |
| illuminated | decorated with gold |
| paraphernalia | equipment |
| preliminary | before the main step |
| scribe | someone who copies written documents |
| transcribe | to write or type a copy of |
| gild | to cover with gold |
| notable | worthy of notice |
| connotation | what a word suggests in addition to its exact meaning |
| appositive | an explanatory phrase |
| notation | a short written note |
| denote | to indicate |
| ascribe | to regard something as belonging to a particular cause |
| proposal | a plan put forward for consideration |
| circumscribe | to surround or encircle |
| expose | a story that makes wrongdoing known |
| proscribe | to forbid |
| annotation | a written note or comment |
| misnomer | an incorrect name |
| satire | a type of humor that makes fun of human faults and foolishness |
| personify | to be a perfect example of something |
| syntax | the way words are put together to make phrases and sentences |
| hyperbole | exaggeration |
| derive | to come from a source |
| context | the part of a sentence that surrounds a word and helps make its meaning clear |
| cliché | an overused expression |
| metaphor | a figure of speech comparing 2 words or objects |
| oxymoron | an expression combining words that contradict each other |
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nickD
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