Literature Final Exam Vocabulary

Seif W.
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  1. accusation
    an assertion that someone is guilty of a fault or offense
  2. blackmail
    extortion of money by threats to divulge harmful information
  3. detached
    no longer connected or joined
  4. gloom
    a state of partial or total darkness
  5. prying
    offensively curious or inquisitive
  6. failing
    failure to reach a minimum required performance
  7. protruding
    extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary
  8. exultant
    joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success
  9. arc
    a continuous portion of a circle
  10. pod
    the vessel that contains the seeds of a plant
  11. host
    a person who invites guests to a social event
  12. departure
    the act of leaving
  13. grateful
    feeling or showing thankfulness
  14. perversely
    deliberately deviant
  15. constricted
    drawn together or squeezed physically or by extension psychologically
  16. apprehension
    fearful expectation or anticipation
  17. comical
    arousing or provoking laughter
  18. accomplice
    a person who joins with another in carrying out some plan
  19. custody
    guardianship over
  20. wistful
    showing pensive sadness
  21. staunchly
    in a staunch manner
  22. prissy
    exaggeratedly proper
  23. gait
    an animal's manner of moving
  24. revulsion
    intense aversion
  25. lop
    cut off from a whole
  26. ebb
    the outward flow of the tide
  27. rhyme
    correspondence in the final sounds of two or more lines
  28. repetition
    the act of doing or performing again
  29. metaphor
    a figure of speech that suggests a non-literal similarity
  30. simile
    a figure of speech expressing a resemblance between things
  31. alliteration
    use of the same consonant at the beginning of each word
  32. stanza
    a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem
  33. couplet
    a stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse
  34. hyperbole
    extravagant exaggeration
  35. onomatopoeia
    using words that imitate the sound they denote
  36. symbol
    something visible that represents something invisible
  37. imagery
    the ability to form mental pictures of things or events
  38. colloquial
    characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation
Created on Tue Jun 05 11:33:07 EDT 2012

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