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LA vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Cadaver (noun) | a dead body, esp. a human body to be dissected; corpse |
| Cascade (noun) | a waterfall descending over a steep, rocky surface |
| Clinical (adj) | extremely objective and realistic; dispassionately analytic |
| Clotting (verb) | to cause to become blocked or obscured |
| Coagulate (verb) | to change from a fluid into a thickened mass; curdle; congeal |
| Collagen (noun) | The fibrous protein constituent of bone, cartilage, tendon, and other connective tissue. It is converted into gelatin by boiling |
| Conduit (noun) | A means by which something is transmitted: an arms dealer who served as a conduit for intelligence data |
| Contagious (adj) | capable of being transmitted by bodily contact with an infected person or object: contagious diseases |
| Corrugated (adj) | to wrinkle, as the skin or face |
| Culmination (noun) | a final climactic stage; "their achievements stand as a culmination of centuries of development" |
| agitation | Extreme emotional disturbance; perturbation |
| aloof | Distant physically or emotionally; reserved and remote |
| apparition | A ghostly figure; a specter |
| benefactor | One that gives aid, especially financial aid |
| cope | to deal with and attempt to overcome problems and difficulties |
| genealogy | A record or table of the descent of a person, family, or group from an ancestor or ancestors; a family tree |
| moor | A broad area of open land, often high but poorly drained, with patches of heath and peat bogs |
| obsession | A compulsive, often unreasonable idea or emotion |
| palatial | Of the nature of a palace, as in spaciousness or ornateness |
| plaintive | Expressing sorrow; mournful or melancholy |
| Eradicate | to root out; destroy utterly |
| Inflammation | a localized protective reaction of tissue to irritation, injury or infection characterized by pain, redness, swelling, and sometimes loss of function |
| Hideous | repulsive, especially to the sight; revoltingly ugly |
| Dexterity | skill and grace in physical movement; mental skill or adroitness; cleverness |
| Negotiate | to confer with another or others in order to come to terms or reach an agreement |
| Havoc | widespread destruction; devastation |
| Belligerent | inclined or eager to fight; hostile or aggressive |
| Meander | to move aimlessly and idly without fixed direction |
| Demoralize | To undermine the confidence or morale of; dishearten |
| Epic | an extended narrative poem in elevated or dignified language, celebrating the feats of a legendary hero |
| Exposition | dialogue, description, etc., that gives the audience or reader the background of the characters and the present situation. |
| Protagonist | the main character of a play or story and is sometimes used interchangeably with hero |
| Denouement | Literally, 'unknotting.' The final unraveling of a plot; the solution of a mystery; an explanation or outcome |
| Conflict | The struggle that grows out of the interplay of two opposing forces. Conflict provides interest, suspense, and tension |
| Climax | the turning point in the action, the crisis at which the rising action reverses and becomes the falling action |
| Dynamic character | A character who changes during the course of the story |
| Static character | A character who remains the same throughout the story |
| Flat character | A character who is only minimally described, a one-dimensional character |
| Round character | A character who is very well described and has many sides or dimensions to his personality |
| Dialogue | the conversation between characters in a novel, drama, etc. |
| Grammar | The use of identical or equivalent syntactic constructions in corresponding clauses or phrases. |
| Personification | A figure of speech in which inanimate objects or abstractions are endowed with human qualities or are represented as having human form, as in hunger sat shivering on the road or flowers danced about the lawn. |
| Simile | A figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are compared, often in a phrase introduced by “like” or “as.” |
| Slant Rhyme | A partial or imperfect rhyme, often using assonance or consonance only, as in dry and died or grown and moon. Also called half rhyme, near rhyme, oblique rhyme. |
| Sonnet | A 14 line verse form usually having one of several conventional rhyme schemes. |
| Speaker | The person who is (assumed to be) speaking. |
| Symbol | Something that represents something else by association, resemblance, or convention, especially a material object used to represent something invisible |
| Tone | The general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people |
| Theme | an implicit or recurrent idea; a motif |
| Assonance | The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds, especially in stressed syllables, with changes in the intervening consonants, as in the phrase tilting at windmills |
| Engender (v) | to bring into existence; give rise to. |
| Vitiate (v) | to reduce the value or impair the quality of. |
| Pacify (v) | to ease the anger or agitation of. |
| Dearth (n) | a scarce supply; a lack. |
| Indolence (n) | being disinclined to exert oneself; habitually lazy. |
| Marred (adj.) | damaged, especially disfiguring damage. |
| Indolent (adj.) | disinclined to exert oneself; habitually lazy |
| Supercilious (adj.) | feeling or showing haughty disdain |
| Squander (v) | to spend wastefully or extravagantly; dissipate |
| Ardent (adj.) | expressing or characterized by warmth of feeling; passionate |
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