vocab words

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Abashed

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Make someone feel embarrassed that something that has been done or said before

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Admonish

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To indicate duties or obligations to

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aesthetic

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if relating to or dealing with the aesthetics or the beautiful

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Aloof

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distant either physically or emotionally

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Analogous

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similar or comparable to something else either in general or in something specific

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Antipathy

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A strong feeling of dislike

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Apprehensive

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Viewing the future with anxiety or alarm

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Avant- Garde

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An intelligentsia that developes new or experimental concepts especially in the arts

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Brusque

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short and abrupt

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Callous

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hardend or thickened

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colloquial

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used in or characteristic of familiar and informal conversation

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counterintuitive

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contrary to what one would intuitively expect

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dereference

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respect and esteem due a superior or an elder

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deplore

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to feel or express grief for

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didactic

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designed or intended to teach

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disillusion

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the condition of being disenchanted : the condition of being dissatisfied or defeated in expectation or hope

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disparage

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: to belittle the importance or value of (someone or something) : to speak slightingly about (someone or something)

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Elusive

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tending to evade grasp or pursuit

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enigma

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something hard to understand or explain

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ephemeral

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lasting very short time

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evoke

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to call upon something

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exasperate

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to cause irritation or annoyance to

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explicate

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to give detailed explanation of

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frivolous

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of little weight or importance

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idiosyncrasy

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a peculiarity of constitution or temperament : an individualizing characteristic or quality

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idyllic

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pleasing or picturesque in natural simplicity

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Incongruous

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lacking congruity: not harmonious

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grandeur

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the state of being grand

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Gratuitous

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not called for by the circumstances : not necessary, appropriate, or justified :

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Gregarious

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: tending to associate with others of one's kind : SOCIAL

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imply

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to express indirectly

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infer

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to derive as a conclusion from facts

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invokes

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a petition for help or support

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lament

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to mourn aloud

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Manifest

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readily perceived by the senses and especially by the sense of sight

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melancholy

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a depression of spirits

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Obdurate

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a stubbornly persistent in wrong doing

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onerous

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involving, imposing, or constituting a burden

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prudent

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: characterized by, arising from, or showing prudence: such as

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reciprocate

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to give and take mutually

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reconcile

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to restore friendship

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repent

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to turn from sin and dedicate oneself to the amendment of one's life

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salutary

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producing a beneficial effect

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solicitude

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the state of being concerned or anxious

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sublime

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to cause to pass directly from the solid to the vapor state and condense back to solid form

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transgress

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to violate a command or law

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vindicate

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to free form allegation or blame

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wry

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twist

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vacillate

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to waver in mind, will, or feeling : hesitate in choice of opinions or courses

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vacillate

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to waver in mind, will, or feeling : hesitate in choice of opinions or courses

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zealous

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marked by fervent partisanship for a person, a cause, or an ideal : filled with or characterized by zeal

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stanza

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a division of a poem consisting of a series of lines arranged together in a usually recurring pattern of meter and rhyme :

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Rhyme scheme

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: the arrangement of rhymes in a stanza or a poem

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enjambment

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the running over of a sentence from one verse or couplet into another so that closely related words fall in different lines

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end stop line

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marked by a logical or rhetorical pause at the end

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alliteration

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the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs)

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metaphor

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a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them

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simile

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: a figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as (as in cheeks like roses)

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syntax

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the way in which linguistic elements (such as words) are put together to form constituents

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diction

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a vocal expression

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allusion

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: an implied or indirect reference in literature