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SAT Vocabulary Week #6
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11th Grade
09/16/2013

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arch
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irrelevant playful teasing
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clause
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structure of sentence, made up of subject and predicate
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connotation
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implied meaning of a word or phrase
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denotation
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literal meaning of a word or phrase
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deus ex machina
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(god out of the machine) artificial problem solver
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inductive reasoning
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making inferences based upon observed patterns
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irony
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opposite of what is meant
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litotes
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rhetorical understatement: you won't be sorry, meaning you'll be glad
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melodrama
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exaggerated work, to incite extreme feelings
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persona
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face presented to the audience
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pseudonym
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alias used by writers
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rhetoric
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a well worded emotional work made to sway an audience
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sentimental
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excess mushiness
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subject complement
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A complement which is coupled to a subject
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understatement
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present smaller than really is
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dialect
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geographic isolation of language
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kenning
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A compound expression in Old English and Old Norse poetry with metaphorical meaning, e.g., oar-steed = ship
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