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C6 Holt Literature
C6 Vocabulary
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English
6th Grade
09/16/2011

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GAWKY
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clumsy; awkward.
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REPOSE
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state of rest or inactivity.
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LISTLESS
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LIFELESS; LACKING IN INTEREST OR ENERGY
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ANIMATION
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LIVELINESS OR EXPRESSIVE
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DEFY
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resist; oppose.
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RETICENT
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reserved; not speaking a lot. quiet
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MELANCHOLY
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mournful, gloomy, sad
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OMENS
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things believed to be signs of future events.
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PARAMOUNT
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the most important. the highest or best.
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METAPHOR
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direct comparisons between two different things sometimes using "IS" or "ARE" or "WAS" or "WERE" never "as" or "like".
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SIMILE
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a comparison between two different things using the words "AS" or "LIKE". He is as big as a house.
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PERSONIFICATION
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describing things like they are human. The sun smiled at me.
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SYMBOLS
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a person, place, or thing, that represents something else. The flag stands for the USA.
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FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
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the language of poetry; it uses metaphors, similes, personification, etc. The opposite of literal language.
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IMAGERY
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expressive language that makes pictures in the mind.
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ASSERTION
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To make a claim or statement or judgment about something.
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ANTONYM
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words that mean the opposite of one another. Hot and Cold
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VAGUELY
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not clearly or definitely; not telling the whole story.
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URGENCY
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pressure to do something now! ; insistence
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CONTEMPLATED
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studied carefully; thinking about something before doing anything.
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INTENTLY
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with close attention; looking carefully at something.
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SLENDER
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skinny, slim, scrawny, or lean
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