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Final Exam Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| anti-Semitism | hostility toward or discrimination against Jews as a religious, ethnic, or racial group. |
| 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 and understood by a community. |
| simile | a figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as. |
| 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. (as in drowning in money) |
| 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 | occurring repeatedly. |
| relocation | establish or lay out in a new place. |
| tentatively | uncertainty; unknown. |