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Final Exam Words
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| anti-Semitism | Hostility toward or discrimination against Jews as a religious, ethic, 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 |