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Unit 3 Vocab
Unit 3 vocabulary flash cards
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Subconscious | n. Mental activity that occurs without someone's being aware of it; Conscious is the opposite of subconscious. |
| Suspicion | n. A feeling of doubt or mistrust; I had a growing suspicion that my parents were hiding something. |
| Despised | v. Hated; Scorned; I despised my brother until I learned why he acted the way he did. |
| Deterioration | n. The process of becoming worse; Old people experience rapid cognitive deterioration. |
| Introspective | adj. Thoughtful; inward looking; I enjoy being around introspective people |
| Regression | n. The return to a previous, less advanced state; Sometimes the economy goes through a large recession. |
| Competence | n. The ability to do something successfully or efficiently; Many people start to lose their competence as they grow old. |
| Stagnate | v. Cease developing; become inactive or dull; Water will stagnate if you leave it still for a long time. |
| Conduits | n. Channels for conveying water or other fluid; Some people just came to my house to install new conduits. |
| Toil | v. work extremely hard or incessantly. (can be a noun) After many years of toil, I finally was able to reach my goal. |
| Strife | n. Angry or bitter disagreement over fundamental issues; conflict; Strife can be a cause of civil war. |
| Blithe | adj. Happy or joyous; Criminals break the law in blithe disregard of the rules. |
| Sages | n. Profoundly wise men, especially ones who feature in ancient history or legend; I went to visit the sages. |
| Lore | n. A body of traditions and knowledge on a subject or held by a particular group, typically passed from person to person by word of mouth; I enjoy learning ancient lore. |
| Meddling | participle/adj. Interfere in or busy oneself unduly with something that is not one's concern; Stop meddling in my personal business |
| Barren | adj. Showing no results or achievements; unproductive; The land was barren and dry. |
| Active voice | n. The form a transitive verb takes when it expresses an action done by its subject; Passive voice is the opposite of active voice. |
| Contribute | v. To add or to give something to help support a specific idea or reach a common purpose; You should contribute to my orchestra fundraiser. |
| Imply | v. To strongly suggest something that is not expressly stated; I tried to imply that, but you wouldn't listen. |
| Reinforce | v. To strengthen or support an idea, usually with additional material; It is important to regularly reinforce what you have recentlylearned. |
| Alliteration | n. When the same sound or letters appear at the beginning of words in a sentence/phrase; Excited Eric eats eggs. |
| Allusion | n. A figure of speech in which a writer makes a reference to a famous story, person, object, or event; You're a regular Einstein. |
| Hyperbole | n. An exaggeration to drive in a point; I am so hungry, I could eat a horse. |
| Metaphor | n. Compares two things that are not alike without using like or as; You are my sunshine. |
| Personification | n. Gives human characteristics to inanimate objects, animals, or ideas; The leaves danced in the wind. |
| Simile | n. Compares two things that are not alike using like or as; You eat like a pig. |
| Stanza | n. A group of lines in a poem, often separated by spaces; Some poems have only 1 stanza. |
| Imagery | n. Language that appeals to the senses to help the reader image a text or to experience an event like the author; Imagery can make a story more interesting. |
| Symbolism | n. Using objects, characters, actions, events, etc. to represent or signify something more profound or abstract than its literal existence. Many flags have a lot of symbolism. |
| Suspense | when the reader experiences uncertainty about how the plot will progress or what a character’s motivation is; Sometimes a story will have so much suspense that you just can't stop reading. |
| Foreshadowing | a literary device where the author or speaker provides hints to later events/things that will happen in a narrative; Foreshadowing is sometimes annoying. |
| Prefix Sub-/Sus- | Under, below; Submarine; Existing, occurring, or used under the surface of the sea; The ocean has large submarine volcanoes. |
| Suffix -tion | Turns a verb into the act of that verb; Preparation; The action or process of making ready or being made ready for use or consideration; Sending someone to Mars will take lots of preparation |
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