Damaso Sem. 1 Final
This set contains: Latin and Greek prefixes and suffixes, comon Latin and Greek roots, Julius Caesar vocab, Maltese Falcon vocab, literary terms and devices, and any upcoming vocab for the final. TOMATS is up! Email me at dward11@brophybroncos.org or post it here on the message board if there are any I forgot or are incorrect in any way.
Terms
undefined, object
copy deck
- un-
- not, the reverse of
- indignation
- anger resulting from injustice
- servile
- overly submissive
- prodigious
- extraordinary in quantity or degree
- repute (n.)
- the estimation in view of others
- juncture
- point in time and a joining place
- coagulate
- to become semi solid
- placid
- calm in nature or appearance
- spec-
- to look, see or watch
- vulgar
- offensive to good taste
- apologia
- formal, written justification of a belief
- ante-
- before
- benign
- harmless AND combination of kind and gentle
- homage
- respect shown by external action
- pre-
- before
- derm-/dermo-
- skin
- truculence
- aggressive defiance
- ineffable
- unable to be expressed in words
- allusion
- a reference in literature to a person, place, thing, idea in literature or history
- contemptuous
- expressing dislike
- confound
- to confuse
- mort-
- death
- micro-
- small, tiny
- litho-
- stone
- anachronism
- something that is misplaced in time in the story
- ver-
- truth, true
- leg-
- law
- gelatinous
- semi solid
- excelsior
- packing material made from wood shavings
- tremulous
- fearful AND shaking
- fathom (n.)
- a measure of water depth
- scant
- limit in quantity or degree
- geo-
- earth, land
- ven-
- to come
- chagrin
- strong disappointment
- assonance
- similar internal vowel sounds repeated in nearby words with different consonants
- knotty
- overly complicated
- col-/com-/cor-
- with, together
- il-/im-/in-/ir-
- not (a negative)
- post-
- after
- re-
- again, back to
- irony
- a device tht uses contradictory sentenes to reveal how circumstances are not as they would seem, or appear to be true
- bene-
- good
- agro-/agri-
- field, farm
- anaphora
- the reiteration of a word, or words, at the start of subsequent phrases, clauses, or sentences
- clamor
- loud noise
- augment
- to make greater
- appurtenance
- an accompanying part, or feature
- intra-
- within
- mut-
- change
- -ject
- to throw
- theo-
- god
- exalt
- to glorify
- flourish
- to thrive or to grow well
- gen-
- birth, race, family
- onomatopoeia
- the pronunciation of a term that imitates the sound of the word it applies to
- insolence
- aggressive disrespect
- sci-
- to know
- personification
- comparison that represents an inanimate object, or animal, as having human attributes
- equi-
- equal
- mis-
- wrong, incorrect
- cor-/corp-
- body
- soph-
- wise, wisdom
- vic-/vinc-
- to conquer, defeat
- mirth
- glee
- influx
- sudden arrival of a large number of people or things
- collude
- to secretly cooperate with somebody to do something illegal
- scrib-/scrip-
- to write
- replicate
- to repeat or to copy
- meter
- measure
- mal-
- bad, evil
- callous
- hard heartened
- jocular
- fond of joking AND humorous
- clar-
- clear
- a-/ab-
- not, the opposite of
- port-
- to carry
- luc-/lus-/lumen-
- light
- thermo-
- heat
- incredulous
- showing disbelief
- peril
- danger
- fin-
- the end
- furl
- too roll up and secure something
- homo (Latin form)
- man
- hyper-
- overly, too much
- biblo-
- book
- photo-
- light
- rout
- to gouge out
- candid
- honest
- iambic pentameter
- a pattern in poetry that consists of five iambic feet in a single line
- muse (v.)
- to ponder
- demure
- shy and modest
- circum-
- around
- abdication
- to resign a high office
- dis-
- lacking
- affable
- friendly
- repute (v.)
- to consider as specified
- pun
- a play on words that depends on the word having multiple meanings or sounds like another word
- trans-
- across, beyond
- opaque
- not transparent
- enjambment
- when a line ends without pause and continues into the next line
- myriad (n.)
- a large number
- de-
- lacking/reverse/away
- covert
- secret, hidden
- simile
- figure of speech that states one object is similar to another like object
- spasmodic
- intermittent (space between), occurring at uneven intervals
- flu-
- to flow
- greg-
- group, crowd or flock
- surreptitious
- secretive
- prodigy
- one with exceptional talents
- psych-
- mind
- phlegmatic
- unexcitable
- portentous
- forewarning
- vid-/vis-
- to look, see or watch
- dramatic foil
- a character that greatly contrasts with another character to show different qualities of those characters
- aud-/audio-
- hear
- wry
- amusing and ironic
- intro-
- into
- temp-
- time
- interminable
- seemingly endles
- flaccid
- limp or lacking energy
- bestow
- to grant or to give
- hemo-
- blood
- malevolence
- ill will
- ex-/extra-
- out of, outside
- latent
- underlying (below the surface)
- mid-
- halfway
- direct address
- an address to someone that is present onstage
- annul
- to make something invalid
- haphazard
- unplanned
- soothsayer
- fortune teller
- burnished
- brown, shiny, and smooth
- man-/manu-
- hand
- ingratiate
- to seek someone's favor
- revere
- to honor and respect
- gravity
- seriousness (in addition to physic's meaning)
- engender
- to cause, produce, create
- affable
- friendly
- consonance
- near rhyme that contains related consonant sounds with different vowel sounds
- mettle
- courage or spirit
- inter-
- between, among
- be-
- about, concerning
- couplet
- two complete thoughts in separate lines containing rhyming ends
- super-
- over and above
- carapace
- animal shell and self protectiveness
- retro-
- backwards (in time)
- indignant
- angry with injustice
- muse (n.)
- an inspiration for art
- synecdoche
- figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole
- zo-/zoo-
- animal
- unassailable
- indisputable
- pend-
- hang
- viv-/vita-
- to live, life
- duc-
- to lead
- ped (greek)
- child
- imperceptible
- tiny
- hemi-
- half
- -tect
- to cover
- voc-/vok-
- to call, voice
- kindle
- to start a fire, to stir up
- pater-
- father
- desultory
- happening in a random way
- cred-
- believe, belief
- chron-
- time
- motif
- theme in Literature, a repeated design
- cede
- to surrender something
- sardonic
- cynically mocking
- gaunt
- extremely thin and bony
- tort-
- to twist or turn
- ten-
- to hold
- foreshadowing
- hints in a story to suggest what will come to pass later in the story
- ominous
- threatening
- lament
- to express sorrow
- metaphor
- a comparison relating two very different things, even though they literally aren't the same thing
- nov-
- new
- alchemy (v.)
- to change metals into gold
- florid
- having an unhealthy pink or red complexion AND overly complicated
- stichomythy
- dramatic dialogue that is spoken in alternating verse lines
- apostrophe
- an address to a person, or thing, that is either absent (offstage), nonexistant, or an idea
- myriad (adj.)
- numerous
- fathom (v.)
- to comprehend something
- zeugma
- use of a word to modify two or more words, although its use may be gramatically or logically incorrect
- graph-
- to write
- augury
- omen
- wan
- pale and feint
- non-
- not (a negative)
- baseness
- the quality of lacking higher values
- contra-
- against, opposed to
- semi-
- half, partial
- cess-/-cede/-ceed
- to move
- recalcitrant
- resisting authority
- dic-
- to speak or say
- dem-/demo-
- people
- litotes
- a statement that negates the opposite of a word that would otherwise be used correctly
- phon-
- sound
- salient
- noticeably significant AND protuding
- soliloquy
- a speech that a character gives alone on stage expressing his/her internal feelings
- thwart
- to frustrate something
- avi-
- bird, fly*
- chrom-
- color
- log-/logo-
- word
- em-/en-
- to make, cause or give
- arch-
- chief, main, first
- hyperbole
- exaggerated statement that adds emphasis to a statement and may not literally be true
- abridge
- to shorten
- alchemy (n.)
- midieval chemistry
- prim
- proper AND prudish (do something risky)
- anti-
- against, opposed to
- vanquish
- to conquer
- homo (Greek form)
- the same
- complacent
- self-satisfied
- fid-
- trust
- pac-
- peace
- hydro-
- water
- extended metaphor
- comparison between two unlike things that continue through a series of sentences, or a paragraph
- ascend
- to move upward
- ad-
- to, towards
- taut
- stretched tightly
- mit-/miss-
- to send
- metonymy
- figure of speech in which a word or phrase substitutes for another word that it is closely associated with
- bulbous
- rounded, swollen
- turgid
- pompous and overcomplicated, overflowing
- rhetoric
- the art of persuasion using words
- pro-
- forward, in favor of
- blank verse
- unrhymed iambic pentameter
- laud-
- to praise
- mottled
- spotted
- alliteration
- the repitition of cosonant sounds at the beginning of a word in a sentence
- anthropo-
- man, human
- astro-
- star
- malignant
- harmlful
- quiescent
- inactive
- pos-/pon-
- to put or place
- intrinsic
- basic and essential
- struct-
- to build
- sto-/sta-
- to remain the same, steady
- spurn
- to reject with hostility
- stolid
- unemotional
- bequeath
- to hand down
- somber
- dark and gloomy
- lurch
- to move violently
- sub-
- below, beneath, under
- ped (latin)
- foot
- undulate
- to move in waves
- tract-
- to pull (or draw)
- petulance
- bad temper
- vex
- to cause discompfort or stress
- sen-
- old
- euphemism
- substitution of an inoffensive term for an offensive one
- myopia
- medical condition, metaphorical