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Vocabulary Unit 4
Review vocabulary for unit 4
Term | Definition |
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Strident | Making or having a harsh sound; grating; creaking. having a shrill, irritating quality or character. |
Self-Effacing | Tending to make oneself, one's actions, or inconspicuous, because of humility or timidity. modesty. |
Analysis | Method of determining the essential features and their relations in a passage. |
Mocking | Showing ridicule, contempt, or derision. |
Ingratiating | Charming; agreeable; pleasing. deliberately meant to gain favor. |
Unwarranted | Lacking justification or authorization. |
Ambivalent | Having mixed feelings about someone or something; being unable to choose. |
Admiring | The act of looking on or contemplating with pleasure or approval. |
Disappointed | Depressed or discouraged by the failure of one's hopes or expectations. |
Critical | Inclined to find fault or to judge with severity. |
Anxious | Characterized by extreme uneasiness of mind or brooding fear about something. Worried. |
Metaphor | A figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (Ex. drowning in money). |
Irony | The use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning. |
Shift | To make a change. |
Juxtaposition | Placing two or more things side by side often to compare or contrast or to create an interesting effect. |
Versus | In contrast to or as the alternative of. |
Assert | To state or declare positively. |
Militant | Aggressively active (as in a cause). Combative. |
Sentimental | Marked or governed by feeling, sensibility, or emotional idealism. |
Flashback | Interruption of chronological sequence (as in a film or literary work) by interjection of events of earlier occurrence. |
Evoke | To bring to mind or recollection. |
Terse | Smoothly elegant. |
Determined | Having reached a decision : firmly resolved. |
Convey | To impart or communicate by statement. |
Insistence | Disposed to insist. Persistent. Compelling attention. |
Passive sentence | A passive sentence is one in which the subject does not perform the action of the verb. |
Engage | To hold the attention of. |
Discourse | Connected speech or writing. |