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Term | Definition |
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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 |