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Hansen
Last minute studying so you don't feel that bad when you fail.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| To accept | To receive, take |
| Except | But |
| To affect | To make a difference to influence |
| To effect | To bring about to cause to happen |
| To adapt | To modify alter |
| To adopt | Take as ones own |
| Ascetic | Self denying |
| Aesthetic | Referring to beauty |
| Averse | Strongly against |
| Adverse | Hostile opposed |
| Capitol | Government building |
| Capital | Money stake net worth |
| Censor | Person cutting offensive material |
| Censure | Hostile criticism |
| Complacent | Smug self satisfied |
| Complasisant | Amiable docile submissive |
| Complement | Something that completes goes well with |
| Compliment | Approging remark |
| Contemptible | Hateful |
| Contemptuous | Open disrespect or scorn |
| Credible | Believable plausible |
| Credulous | Gullible innocent naive |
| To demur | To object or protest |
| Demure | Sedate shy modest |
| To deprecate | To disapprove with regret |
| To depreciate | To go down in value |
| Discrete | Separate |
| Discreet | Modest self restraint |
| Disinterested | Without prejudice or bias |
| Uninterested | Not interested |
| Diverse | Different unlike |
| Divers | Several |
| To elicit | To draw forth to extract |
| Illicit | Illegal |
| To elude | To escape notice |
| To allude | To refer to indirectly |
| To emend | To edit |
| To amend | To change slightly |
| Equable | Even tempered steady |
| Equitable | Fair just |
| Factious | Inclined to dispute |
| Factitious | Artificial same |
| Formerly | In times past |
| Formally | Of establish form or custom |
| Gourmet | Lover of fine food |
| Gourmand | Lover of lots of food |
| To immigrate | To move to a country or area |
| To emigrate | To leave your country |
| Indigenous | Inventive clever |
| Indigent | Poor |
| Ingenuous | Innocent naive |
| Later | A later hour |
| Latter | More of recent of two things |
| To lose | To misplace |
| Loose | Not securely attached |
| Marital | Of marriage |
| Martial | Warlike |
| Nauseated | Sick too your stomach |
| Nauseous | Revolting or disgusting |
| Personable | Pleasannt appealing |
| Personal | Private |
| Principal | Chief main |
| Principle | Fundamental truth |
| Prophesy | To fortell predict |
| Prophecy | That which is foretold |
| To prosecute | To bring legal action |
| To persecute | To harass annoy |
| To regale | To entertain with jokes |
| Regal | As royalty |
| Social | Of human society |
| Sociable | Friendly amiable |
| Tortuous | Winding twisted |
| Torturous | Cruelly painfully |
| Urbane | Sophisticated |
| Urban | Referring to cities |
| Vocation | Your job |
| Avocation | Your hobby |
| A (gr) | Without gr |
| Ab abs | From away L |
| A ac ad af ag al an ap as at | To toward against L |
| A (as) | On in of up to |
| Ambi amphi | Both around (L Gr) |
| Ana | Up back again |
| Ante anti | Before previous |
| Anti (gr | Against opposed to |
| Apo ap | From away |
| Arch archi | Chief first |
| Be | Intesively to make |
| Bene | Good well |
| Bon | Good |
| Cata | Down away |
| Circum | Around |
| Com co col con cor | With together |
| Contra counter | Against opposing |
| De | Away from off down |
| Demi | Half |
| Dia | Across apart through |
| Di dif dis | Away down off opposing |
| En em | In among within |
| Epi | In outside over outer |
| Ex e ef | From out away |
| Ex | Former |
| Extra exter extro | Outside beyond |
| For | Against away |
| Fore | Before |
| Hemi | Half |
| Hetero | Other |
| Homo | Same |
| Hyper | Excessive over |
| Hyp hypo | Underbeneath |
| In il im ir | Into within not opposing |
| Inter | Among between |
| Intro intra | Inwardly within |
| Macr macro | Long large prominent |
| Meta met | Change of over beyond |
| Micro | Small little |
| Mis | Amiss wrong bad |
| Neo | New latest of a period |
| Non | Not |
| Ob oc of op | Over against toward |
| Orth | Straight right normal |
| Over | Over too much |
| Para par | Beside beyond variation |
| Per | Through thoroughly |
| Peri | Around near |
| Post | After following |
| Pre | Before |
| Pro | Before foreword |
| Pro | For before forward in place of |
| Proto | First |
| Re | Back again |
| Retro | Back backward |
| Se | Away aside |
| Semi | Half |
| Sub suc suf sug sum sup sus | Under beneath |
| Super | Over above extra |
| Syn sym syl sys | Together |
| Tele | Far away distant |
| Tra trans | Across beyond |
| Ultra | Beyond excessive |
| Un | Not opposing |
| With | Against |
| Wri wro | Twist wriiting work |
| Simon legree | Uncle toms cabin stone 1852 slive driver |
| Friday | Well trusted assistant robinson crusoe |
| Little lord fauntleroy | Perfect suckup goody too shoes |
| Cinderella | Ragsto riches |
| Tartuff | Hypocrite |
| Pollyanna | Goody too shoes |
| Falstaff | Comic relief bafoon drunk dude |
| Robot | RUR karl capele |
| Uncle tom | Disloyal to race |
| Brobdingnagain | Gigantic enormous |
| Casanova | Gold digger jerk |
| Sir galahad | Chivalrous |
| Caspar milquetoast | Spiritless wuss |
| Don juan | Loves all women nice guy |
| Uriah heeps | Hypocrite |
| Bona Fide | Genuine |
| Corpus delicit | The body of evidence |
| Cum | Laude |
| Eg | For example |
| Ig | Equals |
| E pluribus unum | From many we are one |
| Ergo | Therefore |
| Ex post facto | After the fact |
| Habeas corpus | Bring the body of evidence |
| Per annum | Per year |
| Status quo | Keep life how it is |
| Quid pro que | A fair exchange |
| Subpeona | You have to appear in court |
| Ad Nauseam | Makes you sick from doing to much of it |
| In camera | In secret |
| In vino veritas | When you get drunk you tell the truth |
| Lapsus calami | Let something slip |
| Au contraire | On the contrary |
| Curte blanche | Blank check |
| Double entendre | Double meaning |
| Entrepreneur | Started your own business |
| Faux pas | Social error |
| Flotsam | When something floats |
| Jetsam | Through things overboard |
| Genre | Category |
| Ou jus | With juice natural juices |
| Billet doux | Love letter |
| Au naturale | Naked |
| Laissez faire | Disinterested |
| Tete a tete | A private conversation |
| Garcon | A waiter or young boy |
| Mon cheri | My darling |
| Tour de force | Most outstanding skill |
| Voila | There it is |
| Finis | The end |
| Vaquero | Cowboy |
| Bandolero | Bandit |
| Luna | Moon |
| Afetto | Passionate |
| Prima dona | Self centered first lady |
| Kaput | Broken beyond repair |
| Dummkompf | Dumb head |
| Wanderlust | Longing to wander |
| Schmalz | Overly sentimental |
| Chutzpah | A lot of nerve audacity |
| Gung ho | Work together enthusiastically |
| Assuage | Lessen reduce |
| Erratic | Inconsistent bipolar |
| Benign | Gentle mild |
| Bovine | Cattle |
| Edify | Build instruct |
| Compromise | Meet in the middle |
| Inconspicuous | Hidden out of sight |
| Altercation | Fight |
| Tentative | Uncertain |
| Impudent | Disrespectful |
| Fatalistic | Inevitable negative fate |
| Polling | Asking options |
| Instinctive | Natural behavior |
| Perpetrated | Commit crime |
| Perforated | Precut |
| Acquiescence | Fulfilling orders |
| Amiable | Friendly |
| Facade | False front |
| Abstract | Not concrete hypothetical |
| Abstruse | Unclear |
| Acclaim | Praise |
| Acrimony | Bitter harsh |
| Adamant | Persistent |
| Advocate | Supporter |
| Affirmation | Confirm truth |
| Allienate | Set someone apart |
| Altruistic | Give to others |
| Ambidextrous | Able to use both hands equally well |
| Ambiguous | Vague unspecific |
| Ambivelent | Indecisive |
| Amity | Friendship |
| Amorphous | Shapeless |
| Anarchy | No laws no rules |
| Antagonistic | Opposed hoste aggressive |
| Antithesis | Exact opposite |
| Arbitrary | Random |
| Antiquated | Out of date |
| Beserk | A viking violent crazy |
| Bloomers | Amelia bloomer loose fitting pants |
| Bowdler | Thomas bowdler to edit offensive stuff and make weaker |
| Boycott | Captin cc started raising rates on irish farm land |
| Chavinist | Nicholas sexist doesn't listen to others who was loyal to napoleon |
| Derrick | Hoist or crane goodman used to hang people |
| Machiquellian | Underhanded conniving from nicolo |
| Mesmerize | Anton the first to use hypnosis qs a medical treatment |
| McCarthyism | Joseph in state of pwrqnoia mind games |
| Nostradamus | 1555 predictions future teller |
| Pyrrhic victory | Lose more then whwt you win |
| Stonewall | Jackson unbudgint wtubborn barrier |
| Thespian | Actor 534 bce first person to have speqking line |
| Wagnerian | Richard wrote opera loud and powerful |
| Bohemian | Gypsy to wonder |
| Canopy | Covering for your head from canopus egypt |
| Limerick | Five line humorous poem from a town in Ireland |
| Marathon | 26 miles 385 yards long race battle of marathon guy died after running to announce victory |
| Meander | Weave back and forth like menders river |
| Sardonic | Bitter crazy evil laughter toxic plant makes you laugh to death |
| Shanghai | Kidnapped and forced to work city in china |
| Spartan | Life of simplicity |
| Sybaritic | Life of luxury and worship pleasure |
| Waterloo | Final ultimate defeat of napoleon |
| Ambiguity | Being vague |
| Mood | Feeling of the reader |
| Tone | Feeling of the author |
| Character | Flat round static dynamic |
| Chronology | Time sequence |
| Coherence | Holds together logically |
| Conflict | Physical and emotional or mental |
| Conventions | Rules of mechanics and grwmmar |
| Credibility | How believable your story is |
| Description | Using a variety of sensory details |
| Dialogue | Conversation |
| Diction | Word choice or vocabulary |
| Farce | Exaggerated reality use farce about a well known subject |
| Flashback | Living a scen2 from the past |
| Foreshadowing | Hints of what isgoing to happen next |
| Imagery | Poetic devices such as metqphor simile and personification |
| Immediacy | Feels like the story is happening right now |
| Irony | Opposite of what you plan on happening sarcasm you know more then other characters |
| Narration | 1st person third person omniscient restricted effaced |
| Pathos | Care about what happens to the characters |
| Plot | Exposition conflict rising action climax falling action resolution |
| Protagonist | Main character |
| Sentimentality | Overly manipulating the reader |
| Setting | Location of story clikate weather geography era |
| Symbol | Any object in a story that has a meaning |
| Theme | Message or lesson learned in a story |
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