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English 9 A Unit 2
Unit 2 Vocabulary for English 9 A
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| cached | hidden in a secure place |
| reminiscent | reminding one of something |
| undistinguished | not very noticable or different from surroundings |
| yearling | an animal one year old but not yet two3 |
| dispersed | distributed or spread over a wide area |
| minutely | paying close attention to even the smallest details |
| obliquely | on an angle, indirectly |
| figurative language | language that is not literally true but expresses an idea through devices such as simile, metaphor, or personification |
| magnitude | size |
| infrared | outside the visible spectrum |
| incandescent | producing light by radiating hot, visible light |
| fluorescent | producing light by bombarding a glowing material with electrons |
| epicenter | the point of the Earth’s surface directly above something, usually the point directly above an earthquake2 |
| millennia | thousands of years |
| debris | scattered remains, rubble |
| wrested | pulled |
| scourge | cause of pain or punishment |
| pent-up | contained |