Satire + Rhetorical Vocab Flashcards
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Satire
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To ridicule someone/something, to look ridiculous, to embarrass + humble
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Juvenalian
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Attacks error, critisism
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Horatian
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Amused + Witty
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Modest
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Moderate or humble to estimate one’s importance - to not boast or brag : not egotistical
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Importune
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To beg, urge, or solicit persistently
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Sustenance
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Supporting life and health
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Prodigious
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Enormous in size
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Deplorable
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Causes grief or distress
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Expedient
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Useful in a particular situation
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Raiment
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Clothing
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Enumerate
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Counting: to list in a story
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Deference
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Respectful
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Repine
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Complain
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Parsimony
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Stingey
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Tenant
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A person or group that rents and occupies land, a house, an office: for sometime