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English Vocab Retest
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| abysmal | extremely bad or weak |
| abyss | immeasurably deep or great |
| affront | an insult |
| alliteration | riming of initial consonant sounds |
| archaic | no longer used |
| archetype | the original pattern or model from which all things of the same kind are copied or on which they are based |
| assonance | rhyming of internal vowel sound |
| astrology | the (pseudo) science of understanding the future by studying the influence of the planets on the lives of individuals |
| bawdy | indecent, rude, or lewd humor, often times being sexual in nature |
| blank verse | unrimed iambic pentameter |
| blood feud | extended conflict between clans, sometimes involving violence and murder |
| choleric | extremely irritable or easily angered |
| clans and tribes | extended family groups involving multiple generations, an absolute ruler, and a disposition toward blood feuds |
| courtier | aristocrat or near-aristocrat who are rivals for the kind of queen's attention |
| cyclical | adj form of cycle |
| de facto | in fact |
| de jure | in law |
| debase | to corrupt or make impure |
| dignity | rank |
| domain | the place that you rule |
| double entendre | words or phrases that have multiple meanings, one of which is sexual connotations |
| elude | to escape |
| end rime | riming the last sounds of lines |
| endemic | in the nature of the thing |
| enjambment | a line of poetry whose sense continues unbroken into the next line, as opposed to an end-stopped line |
| fecund/fecundity | fertility, rich with life |
| flyting | Anglo Saxon word for wit combat |
| germane | closely relevant |
| groundlings | sometimes unruly section of a Shakespearean audience who paid a penny per ticket |
| heroic couplet | consecutive lines of unrimed iambic pentameter |
| internal rime | rime within a line; alliteration, assonance |
| Lammastide | August 1 in the Church calendar |
| mayhem | disorderly behavior involving variable degrees of collateral damage |
| measure | a length of music |
| meter | a technique for measuring and controlling rhythm in verse |
| motif | a repeating element within a larger body of work. over time, it gains thematic significance by virtue of being repeated |
| mutiny | riotous resistance to authority |
| naïf | noun meaning one who is innocent of the adult world |
| paradox | 2 or more true statements which contradict one another; 2 or more facts which are mutually exclusive |
| pater familias | absolute head of an extended family |
| pernicious | causing insidious harm or ruin |
| poignant | full of deep feeling |
| primus inter pares | 1st among equals |
| prologue | preliminary matter of a literary work |
| retainer | an individual who is part of the household but is not kin |
| salutation | formal greeting |
| sonnet | averse form containing 14 iambic pentameter lines and, in the Italian form, riming a b b a, a b b a, c d e, c d e; in the English form, a b a b, c d c d, e f e f, g g |
| strong verb | a verb that changes its internal form in the past participle |
| syllable | one or more letters working together to produce a single sound |
| teen | sorrow |
| thrust stage | a back leading offstage with the other three sides moving into the crowd |
| titular | having the title of |
| tone | the attitude of the speaker toward his subject |
| typify | typical of |
| unruly | hard to control, resistant toward authority |
| viceroy | one who rules in the name of another,; the person who exercises the authority of a kind in the place of God who is the real kind |
| volatile | very unstable |
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