English Vocabulary
Terms
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- satire
- artistic-exposure of folly in others
- asinine
- extremely stupid or foolish
- anaphora
- the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases
- magnanimous
- very generous or forgiving (toward someone lesser or equal)
- parallelism
- the use of successive verbal constructions in writing
- squalid
- extremely unpleasant (setting or place)
- punctilious, fastidious
- precise
- chiasmus
- a rhetorical pattern that follows the construction ABBA
- protuberant
- sticking out
- endocentric
- male-centered
- decorous
- polite and restrained, keeping with good taste
- hobgoblin
- little-minded negative mischievous creature
- litotes
- ironical understatement (e.g. "you won't be sorry" means "you'll be glad")
- expiate
- make amends for sin or crime
- loath
- reluctant
- analogy
- a comparison between two things, a correspondence of partial similarity
- ad hoc argument
- adding anything that comes to mind to an argument
- capricious, whimsical
- changeable, free-spirited, unpredictable
- sycophant
- someone who is obedient in order to gain advantage
- asyndeton
- the omission of a conjunction
- jargon
- very specialized language/technical language
- frugal
- not spending much money, getting a thrill out of being cheap
- connotation
- feeling one gets from a word
- hyperbole
- enormous exaggeration
- rhetorical question
- a question that the asker does not expect or want a direct response
- inculcate
- to teach through repetition and punishment to force ideas
- mendicant
- given to begging, a beggar
- synecdoche
- part that represents a whole (e.g. a roof for a house)
- syllogism
- deductive reasoning
- denotation
- definition