Flashcards in English Story Vocab Test Deck (46):
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Asetic
Practicing severe self discipline
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Beleaguered
Lay siege to,be set with difficulties.
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Fanatic
To have excessive zeal/ excitement
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Remorse
Deep regret or guilt
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Ruse
A trick
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Silhouetted
Dark shape against light outline
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Bludgeon
Thick stick with heavy end
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Despairingly
Hopelessness
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Modesty
Not revealing
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Monotony
Repetitive
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Nourishment
Food or other substances necessary for growth.
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Pandemonium
Wild,noisey
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Succession
Putting things in order
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Bravado
False show of courage or defiance
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Degradation
Humiliation
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Exuberance
Condition of unrestrained joy
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Futile
Having no useful result
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Impotent
Powerless
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Nostalgia
a sentimental longing or wistful affection for the past, typically for a period or place with happy personal associations.
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Ostensibly
apparently or purportedly, but perhaps not actually.
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Perverse
Stubbornly contrary
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Poignantly
Profoundly moving matter
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Centrubution
Something given in repayment usually as a punishment
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Squalor
Filthy condition
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Stoicism
Pain with no complain
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Doggedness
Persistence, stubborness
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Evanesce
Vanish fade away
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Exotic
Excitingly strange
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Heresy
Action or opinion which is different of what is right.
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Imminent
About to occur
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Infallibility
In ability to make errors
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Precariously
Insecurely; in a dangrous way
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Reiterate
To repeat
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Symbolizm
Ordinary object or event that has a deeper meaning.
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Allegory
Characters, settings, or actions that represent something actually going on in the outside world.
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Setting
Where and when a story takes place
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Character
Process of building a person or nonperson out of words.
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Tone
Attitude of the speaker
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Voice
Writes use of language or overall style
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Irony
Describes the difference between what we expect or what seems suitable and what actually happens
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Ambiguity
Let's reader determine the ending
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Ralph
Good dies
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Piggy
Reason
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Roger
Brute force
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Simon
Jesus like
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