LA/SS Vocab
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- intently
- having the attention sharply focused or fixed on something
- theme
- main idea of a work of literature
- idiom
- an expression whose intended meaning is different from its literal meaning
- distraught
- distracted, deeply agitated
- wan
- become pale and sickly
- onomatopoeia
- use of words whose sounds suggest their meaning
- gamboling
- to skip about, as in dancing or playing
- endeavor
- to exert oneself to do or effect something
- stolid
- having or revealing little emotion or sensibility, not easily aroused or excited
- ominous
- threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
- allusion
- reference to someone or something that people are familiar with
- spurned
- reject something contemptuously
- tentatively
- unsure, hesitant
- brittle
- fragile, easily damaged
- metaphor
- comparison between two unlike things in which one thing becomes another thing
- mood
- atmosphere or overall feeling of a piece of writing
- entice
- lure; persuade to do (something wrong); attract; tempt
- slang
- words used in casual conversation
- antiseptic
- exceptionally clean or neat
- lithely
- flexibility, moving with ease
- vehemently
- characterized by rancor or anger
- irony
- contrast between expectation and reality
- impromptu
- made or done without previous perparation, "spur of the moment"
- simile
- words that make comparsions using words "like", "as", or "than"
- personification
- figure of speech in which an object or animal is spoken of as if it had human feelings, thoughts or attitudes
- characterization
- an author's way of revealing a character
- beckoned
- singaling by gestures