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aggravate
annoy; irritate;
to make something
worse
befall (present)
befell (past)
take place; happen;
occur
“black traffic”
slave trade
chaos
confusion; disorder
comparative
adjectives
big, bigger, biggest
fun, more fun,
most fun
compensation
repayment;
settlement; payoff
conceive
understand; believe;
imagine; accept;
grasp
congregant
a member of a
congregation
consolation
comfort; relief;
sympathy; support
endeavor
attempt; pursuit; work
exquisite
perfect; flawless
haggle
bicker; argue;
bargain; quibble
hysteria
frenzy; madness;
panic; out of control
immortality
Forever; the ability to
live forever;
incorrigible
unable to be
corrected; bad;
unrepentant
Ineffable
(inexpressible)
inexpressible; beyond
words; divine
lecher
seducer; one who is
sexually promiscuous
legible
clear; readable;
understandable
mollified
calmed; pacified
motto
saying; adage;
aphorism; slogan
mutely
quietly; silently
omit
leave out; discard; cut
out; eliminate
omniall
pessimism
gloomy outlook
(antonym of optimism)
pining
desiring; longing;
yearning
procure
acquire; gain; get;
secure
providence
divine direction; God
redeemer
savior; Jesus
retribution
payback; revenge;
avengement
salvation
saving; deliverance
sensibility
awareness;
discernment;
perceptiveness
sermon
a long speech that is
part of religious
service
skepticism
doubt; disbelief
submission
giving in; surrender;
bowing down; yielding
suffer
hurt; accept;
withstand; endure
sympathetic
concerned; kind;
sensitive; tender;
feeling
theology
the study of religion
transcendent
extraordinary;
perfect; flawless;
beyond understanding
truce
peace; treaty; white
flag
unimposing
simple; humble; not
threatening
usurer
money lender
inmates
a person who is
confined in a prison;
jail mate
vexation
annoyance; irritation;
someone who causes
annoyance; nuisance
whet
to make keen or
eager; sharpen;
stimulate an appetite,
interest, or curiosity
alliteration
a repeated first
consonant sound
ex: from stem to stern
allusion
a reference in a work
of literature to
another; often to
mythology or the
Bible
antagonist
the adversary or
opponent of the
protagonist
aphorism
a short saying which conveys a
general truth as “Power tends
to corrupt, and absolute power
corrupts absolutely”
argument:
ethos, logos, pathos
three rhetorical devices:
ethos—image
logos—logic
pathos—feeling
Dewy Decimal System
a means of categorizing books
in a library (the way books are
arranged in REV’s media
center)
direct address
Jim, will you shut the door
when you come in?
fiction
writing based on the
imagination of the writer
hyperbole
figure of speech involving
exaggeration
ex: I am so hungry I could eat a
cow.
independent clause
a complete thought that can
stand alone
ex: When I came home, the
garage door was open.
dependent clause
an complete thought that
cannot stand alone
ex: When I came home, the
garage door was open.
irony
a contradiction between what is
expected and what happens;
there are three types: verbal,
dramatic, and situational
main idea
what a essay, paragraph, or
other piece of writing is mostly
about; the topic
metaphor
A figure of speech involving a
comparison that does not use
like or as
ex: The dog dragged his stick of
a leg.
mood
the feeling the reader derives
from a work of literature
nonfiction
writing based on real, people,
places, and events
periodicals
newspapers and magazines
personal pronouns
subject pronouns: I, you, he , she
it, we, you, they
object
pronouns: me, you, him, her, it,
us, you, them
personification
giving human characteristics to
inhuman objects
ex: The rain danced on the
window.
plot sequence
exposition, rising action, climax,
falling action, resolution
point of view
first-person, second-person,
third-person limited, and
third-person omniscient
protagonist
the leading character, hero, or
heroine of a drama or other
literary work
Puritanism
the beliefs and practices characteristic
of Puritans (most of whom were Calvinists
who wished to purify the Church of England
of its Catholic aspects) strictness and
austerity in conduct and religion
purpose
a writer’s purpose determines
form and content; some
examples of purpose are: to
persuade, entertain, inform,
describe
rhetorical devices or
means of persuasion
repetition
restatement
rhetorical question
parallelism
simile
A figure of speech involving a
comparison that use like or as
ex: I wandered lonely as a cloud.
thesis statement
a position the writer defends or
supports which often appears in
the final sentence of the
introduction to an essay
Transcendentalism
A religious and literary movement in
America characterized by a belief in
the intuitive and spiritual above the
empirical: in the U.S., associated
with Emerson.
Transition
(word or phrase)
Words or phrases used to connect or
lead from one idea to another