English Vocab List 1 Flashcards
(16 cards)
chauvinistic, chauvinist
displaying excessive support for one’s own cause or group
genre,
My favorite genre of music is pop
A genre is a specific type of music, film, or writing
iconoclastic
a breaking of established rules or destruction of accepted beliefs.
pagination
The numbers assigned to each page in a book or periodical
diction
choice of words especially with regard to correctness, clearness, or effectiveness
simile
a figure of speech used to comparing one thing with another usually using like and as
immutable/mutable
Mutable is something that can be changed, whereas immutable
is something that can’t be changed.
ameliorate
to make something ____ ______
make (something bad or unsatisfactory) better.
abstract
That painting is very abstract
something detached from physical, or concrete, reality.
protagonist
He is the protagonist
the leading character or one of the major characters in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text.
antagonist
a person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something; an adversary:
inextricable
can not be ____________
impossible to disentangle or separate:
metaphor
her poetry depends on suggestion and metaphor
usualy not something that could really be happen
a figure of speech that makes a non-literal comparison between two unlike things
naïve, naivete
My younger brother is very naïve
lacks ______
lack of experience, wisdom, or judgment:
contemporary, contemporaneous
Almost all of the contemporary accounts of the event have been lost
during the same ______
existing or occurring in the same period of time:
generic
john is a very generic name
not ________
characteristic of or relating to a class or group of things; not specific.
