WKHS Week 14 Vocabulary
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- cadence
- (N) rhythm
- octave/octet
- an eight line stanza
- luminary
- (N) a person of prominence or brilliant achievement
- enjambment
- the continuation of the sense and grammatical construction of a line on to the next verse or couplet
- recalcitrant
- (adj) stubbornly resistant to authority or restraint
- xenophobia
- (N) fear or hatred of strangers or foreigners
- sonnet
- a poem of 14 lines and following one set of rhyme schemes
- pugilist
- (N) a fighter; a boxer
- end rhyme
- rhyme at the end of lines in a poem
- buffoon
- (N) a clown; a laughable person
- progeny
- (N) an offspring; a descendant
- pejorative
- (adj) having bad connotations; disparaging
- indolent
- (adj) lazy
- irascible
- (adj) easily angered; hot-tempered
- ruminate
- (V) to ponder; to think over
- ludicrous
- (adj) laughable because of obvious absurdity