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DC ENGL Final Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Apocryphal | a doubtful authenticity, although widely circulated as being true |
| Portends | to be a sign or warning that something usually bad or pleasant is going to happen |
| Vicarious | experienced or felt by watching, hearing about, or reading about someone else rather than by doing something yourself |
| Dictum | a formal pronouncement from an authoritative source; a short statement that expresses a general truth or principle. |
| Perennial | lasting or existing for a long or apparently infinite time; enduring or continually recurring. |
| Resonance | the quality in a sound of being deep, full, and reverberating. |
| Precursors | a person or thing that comes before another of the same kind; a forerunner |
| Intertextuality | the relationship among all the stories constituted by the recurrence of symbolic patterns |
| Repartee | a: a quick witty reply b: a succession or interchange of clever retorts; amusing and usually light sparring with words |
| Ubiquity | presence everywhere or in many places especially simultaneously; omnipresence |
| Timorous | easily frightened; fearful |
| Hapless | having no luck; very unfortunate |
| Repugnant | causing a strong feeling of dislike or distrust; exciting distaste or aversion |
| Apocalyptic | describing or prophesying the complete destruction of the world; resembling the end of the world; momentous or catastrophic |
| Parable | a simple story illustrating a moral lesson |
| Nonsectarian | not affiliated with or restricted to a particular religious group |
| Sordid | characterized by baseness. Filthy, in the metaphorical or literal sense |
| Ambiguous | able to be understood in more than one way: having more than one possible meeting; not expressed or understood clearly |
| Canonical | relating to the group of books, plays poems, etc., that are traditionally considered to be very important; connected with or allowed by the laws of the christian church; the books that are considered to be part of the religions official text. |
| De Facto | in reality; actually; being such in effect though not formally recognized; exercising power as if legally constituted; resulting from economic or social factors rather than from laws or actions of the state |
| Emulate | to try to be like (someone pr something you admire) |
| Disparage | regard or represent as being of little worth |
| Simulacrum | an image or representation of someone or something; an unsatisfactory imitation or substitute |
| Verisimilitude | the quality of seeming real |
| Allegory | a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one |
| Symbolism | the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities |
| Promulgate | state or announce |
| Procreate | produce more individuals of a given animal or plant |
| Pillory | a wooden instrument of punishment on a post; attack or ridicule publicly |
| Avant-garde | radically new or original |
| Appellation | Identifying words by which someone or something is called |
| Milieu | A persons social environment |
| Disconcerting | causing one to feel unsettled. |
| Epigraph | an inscription on a building, statue, or coin; a short quotation or saying at the beginning of a book or chapter, intended to suggest its theme. |
| Titular | denoting a person or thing from whom or which the name of an artistic work or similar is taken |
| Beset | trouble or threaten persistently |
| Saturnalia | an occasion of wild revelry; the ancient Roman festival of Saturn in December, which was a period of general merrymaking and was the predecessor of Christmas. |
| Malefactor | someone who is guilty of a crime or offense; a person whose behavior is wrong or evil |
| Digress | to speak or write about something that is different from the main subject being discussed |
| Irony | What someone says is the opposite of what they mean; when an outcome is opposite of what is expected; when the audience is aware of something that characters do not |
| Signified | the meaning or idea expressed by a sign, as distinct from the physical form in which it is expressed |
| Signifier | a sign's physical form (such as a sound, printed word, or image) as distinct from its meaning. |
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