WordMasters Vocab
Blue division
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- didactic
- intended to teach a moral lesson; teaching
- irate
- angry; enraged
- apprehensive
- anxious or fearful about the future; uneasy /OR/ quick to understand
- naive
- having or showing a lack of experience, judgment, or information
- personification
- the attribution of a personal nature or character to inanimate objects (ex: the tea kettle was screaming)
- moderate
- kept or keeping within reasonable or proper limits (adjective)
- narrative voice
- the persona telling the story (1st person, 2nd person [rare], 3rd person limited, or 3rd person omniscient)
- ominous
- portending evil or harm; foreboding; threatening
- glade
- an open space in a forest
- reflective
- deeply or seriously thoughtful /OR/ capable of or producing reflection
- apparatus
- any system or systematic organization of activities, functions, processes, etc., directed toward a specific goal
- simple sentence
- a sentence having only one clause
- paternalistic
- a policy or practice of treating or governing people in a fatherly manner, especially by providing for their needs without giving them rights or responsibilities
- legend
- a person who is the center of much stories
- hyperbole
- an extravagant statement or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally (ex: jumbo shrimp; this book weighs a ton)
- solace
- something that gives comfort, consolation, or relief
- dominion
- rule; controlled; domination (noun)
- metaphor
- a comparison not using 'like' or 'as'
- compound sentence
- a sentence of two or more coordinate independent clauses
- exuberance
- joyful enthusiasm
- infer
- to derive by reasoning; conclude or judge from premises or evidence
- irony
- an outcome of events contrary to what was expected (dramatic, verbal, situational)
- liberal
- generous in amount; ample /OR/ favorable to progress or reform, as in political or religious affairs
- wistful
- full of wishful yearning
- declarative
- serving to declare, make known, or explain
- conservative
- cautiously moderate or purposefully low
- extol
- to praise highly; exalt
- executioner
- a person who executes an act, will, judgment
- foreshadow
- to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure
- preoccupied
- completely engrossed in thought; absorbed
- lope
- a slow pace of running
- horde
- a large group, multitude, number
- parable
- a short allegorical story designed to illustrate or teach some truth, religious principle, or moral lesson
- rhapsodic
- extravagantly enthusiastic; ecstatic
- flight of fancy
- an unrealistic idea or fantastic notion; pipe dream
- vulnerable
- capable of or susceptible to being wounded or hurt
- replicate
- to duplicate, copy, reproduce, or repeat
- writhe
- to twist the body about, or squirm, as in pain
- pelt
- to beat or pound unrelentingly
- onomatopoeia
- the formation of a word by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent (ex: boom, buzz)
- rhetorical
- of or relating to the ability to use language effectively