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Zeanah Midterm Vocab
complete midterm english vocabulary
| word | definition |
|---|---|
| ablutions | cleansing the body as part of a religious rite |
| disposition | an inclination or tendency |
| deliberation | careful consideration |
| exploration narratives | firsthand accounts of the travels and experencies of people explorers |
| feigned | pretended or faked |
| traversed | moved over, across, or through |
| dispatched | sent off on a specific assignment |
| slave narrative | autobiographical account of life as a slave |
| emotional appeals | using strong words and details to trigger specific feelings |
| pestilential | likely to cause disease |
| copious | plentiful or abundant |
| improvident | shortsighted |
| pacify | calm or soothe |
| affliction | something causing pain or suffering |
| narrative account | tell the story of real life events. |
| pilfer | steal |
| peril | danger |
| sundry | various; different |
| recompense | reward or payment |
| Puritan Plain Style | characterized by short, direct statements with references to ordinary objects |
| apostrophe | a figure of speech in which a speaker directly addresses an absen person or personified object |
| manifold | in many ways |
| ineffable | inexpressible |
| dolorous | sad; mournful |
| aphorisms | short sayings with a message |
| arduous | difficult |
| avarice | greed |
| disposition | management |
| felicity | happiness or bliss |
| unalienable | not to be taken away |
| usurpations | unlawful seizures of rights or priveleges |
| perfidy | betrayel of trust |
| redress | compensation for a wrong done |
| magnanimity | ability to rise above pettiness or meanness |
| acquiesce | agree without protest |
| consanguinity | kinship |
| impious | lacking reverence for God |
| infidel | person who holds no religious beliefs |
| placid | tranquil, quiet, or calm |
| scepter | a rod or staff held by rulers as a symbol of sovereignity |
| refulgent | radiant or shining |
| propitious | favorably inclined or disposed |
| pensive | thinking deeply or seriously |
| usurers | money lenders who charge very high interest |
| ostentation | boastful display |
| parsimony | stinginess |
| stanza | unit of two or more lines arranged in patterns of rhythm |
| couplet | two line stanza |
| quatrain | four line stanza |
| cinquain | five line stanza |
| bivouac | temporary encampment |
| sublime | noble; inspiring |
| efface | erase; wipe out |
| meter | systematic arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables |
| mood | feeling created by a literary work |
| sepulcher | tomb |
| gloaming | evening dusk; twilight |
| ominous | threatening |
| querulous | complaining |
| parable | simple story that teaches a moral lesson |
| iniquity | sin |
| sagacious | shrewd |
| vagary | unpredictable occurence |
| tremulous | characterized by tembling |
| impertinent | not showing proper respect |
| obstinacy | stubbornnes |
| inscrutable | not able to be easily understood |
| maledictions | curses |
| prescient | having foreknowledge |
| transcendentalism | intellectual movement founded by Emerson. Believed that human senses are limited, and everything is part of a big 'over-soul' |
| blithe | carefree |
| connate | innate; existing naturally |
| aversion | object arousing intense dislike |
| suffrage | vote |
| divines | clergy |
| tumultuous | rough or stormy |
| bastions | fortifications |
| importunate | insistent |
| munificent | generous |
| equivocal | having more than one possible interpretation |
| appellation | name or title |
| specious | seeming to be good or sound without actually being so |
| anomalous | abnormal |
| sentience | capacity of feeling |
| obeisance | gesture of respect |
| cornice | projecting decorative molding along the top of a building |
| surmised | guessed |
| opresses | weighs heavily on the mind |
| effuse | pour out |
| evitable | avoidable |
| expedient | resource |
| alacrity | speed |
| free verse | poetry with irregular meter and line length |
| diction | word choice and arrangement |
| abeyance | temporary suspension |
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