Quiz friday Flashcards by morgan lee

An explanation; interpretation, this is often used synonymous (correspond to a rhetorical analysis)

Explication

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Sentence commanding

Imperative tone

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Questioning; again this can be a “tone” word

Interrogative

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Expressing enthusiasm or excitement

Exclamatory

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Declaring a statement or fact

Declarative

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“To be” verbs “to come” “to show” “to dance” ; knowing this helps with the explication of a piece of writing as writers use this imperatively

Infinitives

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Not to be appeased, mollified, or pacified; inexorable

Implacable

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To become milder; lessen in severity

Mitigate

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Not following any one system, as of philosophy, medicine, etc, but selecting and using what are considered the best elements of all systems

Eclectic

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The disgrace or reproach incurred by conduct considered outrageously shameful

Opprobrium

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Deviating from the ordinary, usual, or normal type; exceptional; abnormal

Aberrant

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To hinder, block or thwart

Stymie

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Insatiable greed for riches; inordinate, miserly desire to gain and hoard wealth

Avarice

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Having the polish and suavity regards as characteristics of sophisticated social life in major cities. Reflecting elegance, sophistication

Urbane

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Free from reserve, restraint, or dissimulation;candid; sincere; artless; innocent; naive; Frank; straightforwardness; guileless

Ingenuous

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Burdensome, oppressive, or troublesome; causing hardships

Onerous

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Noun- cautious reserve in speech; ability to make responsible decisions

Discretion

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Verb- to grow rapidly or flourish

Burgeon

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Noun- a universally recognize principle. Adj.- axiomatic

Axiom

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Adj.- existing everywhere at the same time; constantly encountered; widespread

Ubiquitous

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Verb-to undeceive; to set right

Disabuse

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Adj.- violating accepted dogma or convention

Heretical

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Verb- to defame; to characterize harshly

Vilify

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Adj- expressing a rigid opinion based on unproved or improvable principles

Dogmatic

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Adj- recurrent through the year or many years; happening repeatedly

Perennial

Adj- lethargic; sluggish; dormant

Torpid

Noun- the quality of being generously noble in mind and heart, especially in forgiving

Magnanimity

Adj- fierce and cruel; eager to fight

Truculent

Adj-departing from norms or conventions

Eccentric

Adj- complex or complicated

Convoluted

pompous; grandiloquent; ranting

Bombastic

verb- to obstruct or block

Occlude

Adj- extremely talkative

Loquacious

Noun- one who hates all other humans

Misanthrope

Noun- devotion to pleasurable pursuits, especially to the pleasures of the senses

Hedonism

to depart suddenly and secretly, as for the purpose of escaping arrest

Abscond

to mix or blend together in a homogenous body

Amalgamate

of doubtful authority or authenticity

Apocryphal

omen, predicting, prognostication

Augury

fit to be eaten, palatable, victual

Comestible

a state of disuse or inactivity

Desuetude

transparent

Diaphanous

a formal or discriminating expression of praise

Encomium

flimsy

Gossamer

an image-breaker

Iconoclast

foolishly and tearfully affectionate

Maudlin

use of many words without necessity

Verbiage

to overwhelm with wordy abuse

Vituperate

offensive or disgusting; also harmful, unwholesome

Noisome

dealing with matters difficult to be understood

Abstruse

on the point of dying

Moribund

the lowest point

Nadir

a sense of injury

Umbrage

making a loud outcry

Vociferous

lustful

Lascivious

chivalrous or romantic to a ridiculous or extravagant degree

Quixotic

deviation from a right, customary, or prescribed course

Aberration

quickness of intellectual insight, or discernment, keenness of discrimination

Acumen

anything forbidden, as by social usage

Anathema

harshness or roughness of temper

Asperity

full of offensive and aggressive self-conceit

Bumptious

rebellious

Contumacious

very-learned

Erudite

nonchalant

Insouciant

given to shedding tears

Lachrymose

talkative

Loquacious

alluring by false

Meretricious

wicked in the extreme

Nefarious

calm and peaceful

Halcyon

outdated; associated with an earlier, perhaps more primitive, time

Archaic

stillness; motionlessness; quality of being at rest

Quiescence

the profession or principles of teaching, or instructing

Pedagogy

exhibiting a fawning attentiveness

Obsequious

unyielding; hardhearted; intractable

Obdurate

marked by extreme calm, impassivity, and steadiness

Imperturbable

revealing no emotion

Impassive

a song or hymn of praise and thanksgiving... no association to the word Peon...

Paean

lacking sharpness of intellect; not clear or precise in thought or expression

Obtuse

rustic and pastoral; characteristic of rural areas and their inhabitants

Bucolic

to question or oppose

Demur

to reduce purity by combining with inferior ingredients

Adulterate

indifferent to or unaffected by pleasure or pain; steadfast

Stoic

tending to disappear like vapor; vanishing

Evanescent

to make worse or more severe

Exacerbate

harmful; injurious

Noxious

when one kind of sensory stimulus evokes the subjective experience of another. In lit., the words refers to the practice of associating two or more different senses in the same image

Synesthesia

a declaration that is made emphatically ( as if no supporting evidence were necessary)

Assertion

a literary device used by writers for a prominent character in a play or book that has characteristics opposite to that of a convenient hero. The protagonist is generally admired for his bravery, strength, charm or ingenuity, while an anti-hero is typically clumsy, unsolicited, unskilled, and has both good and bad qualities.

Anti-hero

an element of a culture or system of behavior that may be considered to be passed from one individual to another by non genetic means, especially imitation; a humorous image, video, piece of text that is copied and spread rapidly by internet users

Meme

definition or classification/facts-inferences about past, present, or future

Claims of Fact

such claims that tend to make value judgements, resolve conflicts between value/quasi-policy. The proof for such a claim is not as solid as claims of fact.

Claims of Value