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English Midterm Exam
Vocab Words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Alien | foreign |
| Allusion | an expression designed to call something to mind without metioning it explicitly |
| Amble | to walk slow, at a reserved pace |
| Antithesis | the complete opposite of something |
| Archetype | An origional pattern or mold from which all things of the same kind are copied or on which they are based; a model or first form; prototype |
| Arete | the quest for personal honor and glory |
| Armaggedon | the battle between good and evil |
| Atone | to make amends |
| Axiom | an unchallenged assumption |
| Beseech | to ask urently; to beg |
| Brevity | the quality of being breif |
| Cataclysm | a large scale violent event |
| Catalyst | something which, when introduced, causes a chemical reaction without itself undergoing a chemical change |
| Chattel | a piece of human property |
| Coddle | to baby; give whatever is wanted on the assumption that the recipient can not get in unaided; it carries a strong negative connotation of creeping corruption |
| Codify | to write down and organize traditional law into a systematic code |
| Confluence | the flowing toether of two or more streams |
| Connoation | an idea or feeling that a word invokes in an individual in addition to the literal meaning of the word |
| Contend | to struggle, to surmount |
| Context | the situation within which an event occurs |
| Contingent | dependent upon cinditional issues, issues that express specific qualifying issues |
| Contravene | to come against; to violate an order |
| Contrite | felling or expressing remorse or penitence, affected by guilt |
| Cosmopolitan | familiar or at ease in many different cultures or people |
| Dearth | scarcity |
| Delve | to dig |
| Detachment | the state of being objective or aloof |
| Dignity | having to do with social heirarchy, rank; also more figuratively, the strong inner core of integrity an strength that allows some, however poor or socialy weak, to exude an unmistakeable aura of authority |
| Disdain | the feeling that something or someone is not worthy of one's respect |
| Disinterested | seperated, not influenced by the conderations of personal feelings |
| Elegant | simple yet profound |
| Elegy | a poem of serious reflection, usually a lament for the dead |
| Engender | to cause or give rise to, to give birth to |
| Enshrine | to preserve an object in a form that insures it will be protected and respected, to make it sacred or holy beyond reproach |
| Envelop | to surround completely |
| Epithet | any word or phrase applied to a person or thing to discribe an actual or attributed quality |
| Epitome | the highest expression of a particular quality or type |
| Eponymous | a hing that is named after a person |
| Evoke | to call forth |
| Exotic | strange or foreign; often times makes things more appealing |
| Fickle | easily changeable, regards to one's loyaltys, intersts, or affections |
| Foil | a minor character who reveals te main character by contrast |
| Foretell | to predict |
| Guile | cunning, one who can achieve things through intelligence, sly |
| Hubris | excessive pride or self-confidnce that overwhelms the abilty to make good judgemts |
| Hyperbole | exageration in a dramatic effect |
| Hypothetical | based on or serving as a hypothesis |
| Incidental | accompanying, but not a major part of something |
| Idisputable | not able to be argued, denied, or contested |
| Ingrate | noun form of ungrate |
| Inherent | in the nature of the thing |
| Insatiable | impossicle to satisfy |
| Insinuate | to sneak, suggest, or hint |
| Insolent | sowing a rude and arrogant lack of respect |
| Intrinsic | belonging naturaly, in the nature of the thing |
| Intuition | trained instinct |
| Irony | the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning |
| Juxtapose | o place close together or side by side |
| Manifest | adj.-clear or obvious verb.- to show up, to appear |
| Meditativly | thoughtfully |
| Metis | Greek for cunning; ues of wit; guile |
| Mollify | to soothe |
| Montrosity | the state or character of being montrous |
| Motif | a repeating pattern which gains symbolic signifigence by being repeated over time |
| Mutually Exclusive | two things that cannot coexist, each cancels out the existance of the other |
| Nebulous | in a form of a cloud, hazy |
| Nominal | in name only, a shell or guise |
| Nostos | Greek for homecoming |
| Odious | extreemely unpleasant, repulsive |
| Opurtunity cost | the value of the sacrafice required to obtain a good |
| Paean | a song of triumph or celebration |
| Paltry | small amount meager |
| Paradox | a proposition in which the elements of the proposition are mutually exclusive are a form of irony; all oxymorons are paradoxes, but not all paradoxeds are oxymorons |
| Peer | equals, contemporaries |
| Piety | a deep reverence and venerence for those above you in rank |
| Pillage | to lay waste to |
| Prefigure | to be an indication or version of something |
| Revelation | a surprising and previously unknown fact, especially one that is made known in a dramatic way |
| Reverence | deep respect |
| Scold | a woman who nags or grumbles constantly |
| Secular | not religous |
| Seer | one that has the power to visualize and communicate with the future |
| Shun | to persistantly avoid, ignore, or reject |
| Suppliant | an individual making a huble plea to someone in power or authority |
| Taciturn | reserved, saying little |
| Vignette | a small story that illuminates a precept or sets up the dicussion of a point |
| Implement | to put something into practice |
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