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Final Exam Vocab ELA
ELA Vocab words
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| anti-Semitism | hostility toward or dicrimintation against Jews as a reliogous, ethnic, or racial groups |
| Adversity | a state or instance of serious or continued difficulty |
| Column | a vertical arrangement |
| Fruition | something realized, happening, or coming true |
| squeal | to make a shrill cry or noise |
| Rogue | to be dishonest or not following the rules |
| committee | a body of persons that take action on some matter |
| Figurative | characterized by figures of speech |
| Language | the words, their pronunciation, and the methods of combining them used an understood by a community |
| Simile | a figure of speech comparing 2 unlike things using like or as |
| Metaphor | A figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally detoning one kind of object or idea used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them |
| Allusion | an implied or indirect reference especially in literature |
| Grotesque | a style of decorative art characterized by fanciful or fantastic human and animal forms distort into absurdity, ugliness, or caricature |
| Skeptical | an attitude of doubt |
| Flamboyant | marked by or given to strikingly elaborate or colorful display or behavior |
| Staccato | Sudden and unexpected sound |
| dismayed | upset, worried, or agitated because of some unwelcome situation |
| recurring | ocurring repeatedly |
| relocation | establish or lay out in a new place |
| tentatively | uncertainty; unknown |