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Comp Lit 1; 2nd Semester Final
vocab words and literary terms
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English
9th Grade
06/18/2006

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preipitous
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adj: a very steep perpindicular or over hanging rise or fall
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marauder
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n: one who raides and pillages
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condolence
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n: sympathy with another is sorrow
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languor
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n: weakness or weariness of body or mind
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succor
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n: assistance in thime of distress, relief

v: to give assistance in time or want, difficulty of distress
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wrest
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v: to obtain by pulling with violent twisting movements
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disposses
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v: to put out of possesion or occupancy
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pious
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adj: makred by or showing reverence or divotion to divine worship
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poach
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v: to trespass on anothers property in order to take fish or game
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interloper
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n: one that interferes with the afains of others, often for selfish reasons
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reconciliation
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n: the restablishing of cordial relationships
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reconciliation
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n: the restablishing of cordial relationships
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acquiesce
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v: to concent or comply passively without protest
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augment
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v: to make greater, more numerous, larbger, or more intense
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dirge
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n: a song or hymn of grief or lamentation
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disparge
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v: to degrade below ones class
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dispositon
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n : the act of transfering the care or posession to another
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flourish
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v: to achive sucess, prosper, to thrive
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grievance
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n: suffering, distress
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herald
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n: to announce or give notice
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inauspicious
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adj: not a good sign
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intercede
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v: to intervene between parties with a view to reconcile differences
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oxymoron
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n: a combination of (cruel kindness) contriditory words
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prejury
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n: lieing under oath
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pernicious
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adj: highly injurious or destructive
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poultice
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n: soft cloth which is applied to soars
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prostrate
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adj: stretched out with force on the ground; laying flat
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semblance
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n: false apperance
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soliloquy
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adj: monolouge, alone without companions
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visage
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n: a face
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propagate
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v: to cause to continue or increase
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aloof
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adj: distant physically or emotionaly, reserved and remote
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belligerent
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adj: inclined or eager to fight, hostile or aggresive
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complacent
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adj: self satisfied and unconced
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contemplate
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v: to consider at length
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crestfallen
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adj: dejected, sometimes humiliated
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decisive
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adj: having the power to decide
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derision
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n: the object of ridicule
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entrance
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v: to fill with delight
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imperious
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adj: arrogantly domineering or overbearing
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mollify
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v: to calim in temper or feeling; soothe
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morose
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adj: incedibly sad
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mottled
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adj: spotted or blotched with different shades or colors
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rapt
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adj: deeply moved or delighted, enraptured
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recumbent
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adj: lying down, especially in a posisition of comfort
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relish
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v: to enjoy
n: the enjoyment
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sullen
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adj: gloomy, but more remorse than sad
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round character
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has many personality traits, more developed, real
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flat character
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one dimensional, displaying on single trait, often used as comic relief
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exposition
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background info needed to understand the story, such info includes protaginist, antaginist, and basic conflict setting
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inciting incident
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and important event
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climax
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the highest point of dramatic tension
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falling action
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the climaxes excitment dies
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catastrophe
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the final (sometimes tragic) event
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allusion
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an implied or indirect reference to something assumed to be known
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verbal irony
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when an author says one thing and means something else
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dramatic irony
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when an ausience percieves something that a character in the literature does not know
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situational irony
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a discrepency between the expected result and actual results
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eschew
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v: to avoid; shun
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revered
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v: to regard with awe
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vocation
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n: a regular occupation
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vocation
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n: a regular occupation
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fetid
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adj: having an offensive odor
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fallacious
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adj: tending to mislead
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peregrination
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v: to travel from place to place
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