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December Vocabulary
LUCENTE ENGLISH CLASS
25
English
9th Grade
12/18/2014

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Term

 

 

 

Amnesty

 

Definition

 

 

A general pardon for offenses, especially political

Term

 

 

 

Default

 

 

Definition

 

 

 

failure to act; negelect

Term

 

 

 

Discord

 

 

 

Definition

 

 

Lack of harmony between persons or things

Term

 

 

 

Inextricably

Definition

 

 

 

from which one cannot extricate oneself

Term

 

 

Intimately

Definition

 

 

associated in close personal relations

Term

 

 

Ligitamately

Definition

 

 

according to law; lawful

Term

 

 

Mobility

Definition

 

 

the quality of being mobile

Term

 

 

Pernicious

Definition

 

 

causing insidious harm or ruin; hurtful

Term

 

 

Reconcilitation

Definition

 

 

a settlement or resolution

Term

 

 

Sustain

Definition

 

 

to support or bear the weight of, as structure

Term

 

 

Apathetically

Definition

 

 

having or showing little or no emotion

Term

 

 

Appease

Definition

 

 

to bring state of peace;to pacify or soothe

Term

 

 

Appendage

Definition

 

 

a subordinate part attached to something

Term

 

 

Ensue

Definition

 

 

to follow in order

Term

 

 

Extremity

 

Definition

 

 

the extreme or terminal point of something

Term

 

 

Intangible

 

 

Definition

 

 

incapeable of being percieved by the sense of touch

Term

 

 

Smite

Definition

 

 

 

to strike or hit hard

Term

 

 

Speculative

Definition

 

 

contemplation,conjecture,or abstract reasoning

Term

 

 

Undulation

Definition

 

 

a wave like motion

Term

 

 

Orb

Definition

 

 

globe

Term

 

 

Satire

Definition

 

 

a form of irony that ridicules the faults of humanity, but in the interest of society

Term

 

 

Synedoche

Definition

 

 

using the attribute of a subject or a part of a whole

Term

 

 

Metonymy

Definition

 

 

using a concept closely related to the thing actually meant

Term

 

 

Metaphor

Definition

 

 

comparison by saying one thing is another

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Allegory

Definition

 

 

a poem or story in which plot and characters symbollicly represent something else

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