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Stems 40 Words
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| valediction | a farewell speech; the act of saying goodbye |
| protagonist | the main character in a literary work |
| maladroit | clumsy, unskilled, inept, awkward |
| stoicism | the endurance of pain or hardship without showing emotion |
| sarcophagus | a stone coffin |
| ignominious | shameful, disgraceful |
| surrealistic | dreamlike, bizarre, or irrational in a way that defies logic |
| analects | a collection of short writings or excerpts |
| expository | intended to explain, inform, or describe something clearly |
| exegesis | a critical explanation or interpretation of a text |
| magnum opus | an artist’s or author’s greatest work dying; |
| moribund | lacking vitality |
| supercilious | arrogantly superior |
| diction | an author’s or speaker’s choice of words |
| emissary | a person sent on a mission on behalf of someone else |