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Middle Eastern Literature DTW 3
VL5
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English
10th Grade
04/06/2011

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Term
Invoking
Definition
-v. used as adj.
-Calling upon
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Prodigious
Definition
-adj.
-Very large; Huge
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Inverted
Definition
-v. used as adj.
-Turned upside down
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Adjourned
Definition
-v.
-Commanded as under oath
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Resolutely
Definition
-adv.
-Firmly; Determinedly
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Perfidious
Definition
-adj.
-Wicked; Unfaithful
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Elegy
Definition
-n.
-Formal poem that mourns the deah of a person or laments something that is lost
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Antithesis
Definition
-n.
-Contrast of ideas expressed in a grammatically balanced statement
Term
Moral
Definition
-adj.
-The lesson about life that folk and fairy tales and other forms of literature teach
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Immortalize
Definition
-v. used as n.
-To give everlastign fame to, perpetuate
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Melancholy
Definition
-n. used as adj.
-A gloomy state fo mind; sober thoughtfulness
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Memorialize
Definition
-v. used as n.
-To honor or commemorate
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Mosque
Definition
-n.
-Muslim temple; Place of worship
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Figures of Speech
Definition
-n.
-Any expressive use of language
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Koran
Definition
-n.
-Sacred text of Islam
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Sermon
Definition
-n.
-Any serious speech, discourse, or exortation especially on a moral issue
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Frame Story
Definition
-n.
-A secondary story or stories embedded in the main story
Term
Islam
Definition
-n.
-Religious faith of Muslims; Whole body of Muslim believers, their civilization
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Muslim
Definition
-n. used as adj.
-An adherent of Islam; (adj.) Of or pertaining to the religion, law, or civilization of Islam
Term
Timbuktu
Definition
-n.
-A town in central Mali, West Africa, near the Niger River; Any faraway place
Term
Renaissance
Definition
-n.
-Period of European history marking the waning of the Middle Ages and the rise of the modern world; Usually considered as beginning in Italy, during the 14th century
Term
Descendants
Definition
-n.
-Deriving in appearance, function, or general character from an earlier form
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Ancestors
Definition
-n.
-A person from whom one is descended; Forebear; Progenitor
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