Wilson Vocabulary Final
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- Circum
- Around
- Doggerel
- Comic verse composed in irregular rhythm
- Concord
- Agreement or harmony
- Empathetic
- Able to unde5rstand and share the feelings of another
- Metaphor
- A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable; a thing regarded as a representative of symbolic of something else.
- Reconnaissance
- Military observation of a region to locate an enemy or ascertain strategic features
- Demote
- Give (someone) a lower rank or less senior position, usually as punishment
- Denotation
- The literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas what the word suggests
- Cor
- Together/With Other includes Con, Col, Co
- Cognizance
- Knowledge, awareness, or notice
- Caste
- The system of dividing society into classes
- Epic
- A long poem, typically one derived from ancient oral tradition, narrating the deeds and adventures of heroic or legendary figures of the history iof a nation
- Idiosyncratic
- Peculiar to the individual
- Dissonant
- Lacking harmony, unsuitable or unusual in combination; crashing
- Sanguine
- Cheerfully optimistic
- Prototype
- A first or preliminary model of something.
- Feral
- Wild
- Pejorative
- Expression contempt or disapproval. A word expressing contempt or disapproval.
- Crucible
- A place or occasion of sever test or trial
- Assail
- Make a concerted or violent attack on
- Narrative Poetry
- A poem that tells a story. Two types: Ballad & Epics
- Sonnet
- A poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line
- Cogent
- (Of an argument or case) clear, logical, and convincing
- Formidable
- Inspiring fear or respect through being impressively large, powerful, intense, or capable
- Vagary
- An unexpected an inexplicable change in a situation or in someone's behavior
- Aberration
- A departure from what is normal usual,or expected, typically one that is unwelcome
- Notorious
- Famous or well known, typically for some bad quality or deed
- Futility
- Incapable of producing any useful result; pointless
- Mollify
- Appease the anger or anxiety of someone
- Duress
- threats, violence, constrains, or other action brought to bear on someone to do something against their will or better judgement
- Guise
- An external form, appearance, or manner of presentation, typically concealing the true nature of something
- Gall
- Bold, impudent behavior two the contents of the gallbladder; bile
- Hyperbole
- Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally
- End Stopped Lines
- Having a pause at the end of each line
- Shadenfreude
- Pleasure derived by someone from another person's misfortune
- Diction
- The choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing
- Inculcate
- Teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions
- Boisterous
- Noisy, energetic, and cheerful. Rowdy
- Loath
- Reluctant; Unwilling
- Temerity
- Excessive confidence of boldness, audacity
- Inept
- Having or showing no skill; clumsy
- Salient
- Most noticeable or important
- Chronic
- Persisting for a long time or constantly recurring
- Precarious
- Not securely held or in position; dangerously likely to fall or collapse. Dependent on chance; uncertain.
- End Rhyme
- The words or final syllables at the end of a line of poetry rhyme in a set pattern.
- Epigram
- A short poem, especially a satirical one having a witty or ingenious ending
- Oligarchy
- A small group of people having control of a country, organization, or institution
- Tepid
- Lukewarm; unenthusiastic
- Betroth
- Enter into a formal agreement to marry
- Relent
- Abandon or mitigate a harsh intention or cruel treatment
- Jaunty
- Having or expressing a lively, cheerful, and self-confident manner
- Platitude
- A remark or statement. The quality of being dull, ordinary, or trite
- Mongers
- Trader: Someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold
- Adroit
- Clever or skillful in using the hands or mind
- Synecdoche
- A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa
- Implicit
- Implied through not plainly expressed. With no qualification or question; absolute.
- Precocious
- (Of a child) having developed certain abilities or proclivities at an earlier age than usual
- Villanelle
- A 19 line form using only two rhymes and repeating two of the lines according to a set pattern
- Haiku
- A Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five, traditionally evoking images of the natural world
- Perspicacious
- Having a ready insight into and understanding of things.
- Conspicuous
- Standing out so asto be clearly visible
- Ramshackle
- In a state of severe disrepair
- Jargon
- Special words or expressions that are used by a particular profession or group that are difficult for others to understand
- Myriad
- A countless of extremely great number
- Circumlocution
- The use of many words where fewer would do
- Gaff
- A stick with a hook, or a barbed spear, for landing large fish
- Jetty
- A landing stage or small pier at which boats an dock or be moored
- Pecuniary
- Of, relating to, or consisting of money
- Malign
- Evil in nature or effect; malevolent. Speak about someone in a critical manner
- Indignation
- Anger or annoyance provoked by what is perceived as unfair treatment
- Junta
- A miliary or political group thjat rules a country after taking power by force
- Emulate
- Matter of surpass (a person or achievement) typically by imiation
- Intimate
- Closely acquainted; familiarly close
- Cynical
- Believing that people are motivated by self-interest; distrustful of human sincerity or integrity
- Maudlin
- Self-pityingly or tearfully sentimental, often through drrunkenness
- Nuance
- A subtle difference in or shade of meaning, expression, or sound
- Euphemism
- A mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harash or blunt when referring to someone unpleasant or embarrassing
- Ornery
- Bad tempered and combative. Stubborn
- Stanza
- A group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem
- Elegy
- A poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead
- Licentious
- Promiscuous and unprincipled in sexual matters
- Overt
- Done or shown openly; plainly or readily apparent, not secret or hidden
- Mores
- The essential or characteristic customs and conventions of a community
- Venue
- The place where something happens (like a concert, conference, or sports event)
- Notoriety
- The state of being known for some unfavorable act or quality
- Mammon
- Walth regarded as an evil influence or false object of worship and devotion
- Biennial
- Taking place every other year (every 2 years)
- Predilection
- A preference or special liking for something; a bias in favor of something
- Audacious
- Showing a willingness to take surprisingly bold risks. Showing an impudent lack of respect.
- Plutocrat
- A person whose power derives from their wealth
- Plausible
- Having an appearance of truth or reason; seemingly worthy of approval or acceptance; credible
- Abdicate
- (of a monarch) renounce one's throne
- Implacable
- Not being able of pacified or quiet
- Eschew
- Deliberately avoid using; abstain from
- Peevish
- Easily irritated
- Ballad
- A poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas
- Circumvent
- Find a way around an obstacle
- Lascivious
- Feeling or revealing an overt and often offensive sexual desire
- Connotation
- An idea or feeling that a word invokes person in addition to its literal or primary meaning
- Denoumount
- The final part of the play, movie, or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are explained or resolved
- Sadism
- The tendency to derive pleasure from inflicting pain, suffering, or from deliberate cruelty on others
- Understatement
- The presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is
- Heathen
- A person who does not belong to a widely held religion as regarded by those who do
- Couplet
- Two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit
- Giddy
- Having a sensation of whirling and a tendency to fall or stagger; dizzy. Excitable and frivolous
- Flay
- Peel the skin off
- Sepia
- A reddish-brown color associated particularly with monochrome photographs of the 18th and early 20th centuries
- premise
- A previous statement or proposition from which another is inferred or follows as a conclusion
- Abide
- Accept or act in accordance with
- Icon
- A person or thing regarded as a representative symbol of something
- Apt
- Appropriate or suitable in the circumstances. Having a tendency to do something. Quick to learn
- Open Form
- Verse that has neither regular rhyme nor regular meter. Free verse often uses cadences rather than uniform metrical feet
- Matriarchy
- A system of society or government ruled by women
- Blank verse
- verse without rhyme, but uses iambic pentameter
- Aesthetic
- Concerned with beauty or the appreciation of beauty
- Precede
- Come before (something) in time, position
- Pundit
- WISE MAN OR TEACHER
- Con
- Together/With Other includes Col, Co, Cor
- Evanescent
- Soon passing out of sight, memo0ry, or existence; quickly fading or disappearing
- Lobotomy
- A surgical operation involving incision into the pre-frontal lobe of the brain, formerly used to treat mental illness
- Prescient
- Knowledge of things before they exist or happen; foreknowledge; foresight
- Internal Rhyme
- A rhyme involving a world in the middle of a line and another at theend of the line or the middle of the next
- Parochial
- Of or relating to a church parish. having a limited or narrow outlook or scope
- Undulate
- Move with a smooth wavelike motion
- Quotidian
- Daily
- Bipartisan
- Of or involving the agreement or cooperation of two political parties what usually oppose each other's policies
- Xenophobe
- Fear of foreigners
- Syntax
- The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language
- Congenital
- Present from birth; inherent
- Alliteration
- The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the begi9nning of adjacent or closely connected words
- Antebellum
- Occurring or existing before a particular war
- Lyric Poetry
- A kind of poetry that expresses emotion
- Condemn
- Express complete disapproval of, typically in public;censure
- Sacrosanct
- Regarded as too important or valuable to be interfered with
- Antagonist
- A person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something, an adversary
- Personification
- The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
- Listless
- Lacking energy or enthusiasm
- Bile
- A bitter greenish-brown alkaline fluid that aids digestion and is secreted by the liver and stored in the gallbladder. Anger, Irritability
- Palliate
- Make (a disease or its symptoms) less sever or unpleasant without moving the cause.
- Fiat
- A formal authorization or proposition; a degree
- Hierarchical
- Arranged in order of rank
- Hegemony
- Leadership or dominance
- Equanimity
- Mental calmness, composure, and evenness of temper, especially in a difficult situation
- Uncouth
- lacking good manners, refinement, or grace; rude
- Infamy
- Notoriety
- Rankle
- Cause annoyance or resentment that persists
- Abomination
- hate coupled with disgust
- Iamb
- a metrical foot in poetry that has an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable, as in the word protect
- Prerogative
- A right or privilege exclusive to a particular individual or class
- Ephemeral
- Lasting for a very short time
- Epiphany
- A moment of sudden reveltation or insight
- Vernerable
- Respectable
- Bellicose
- Demonstrating aggression and willingness to fight
- Collusion
- Secret or illegal cooperation for conspiracy
- Appease
- To pacify or placate(someone) by acceding to their demands. Relieve or satisfy
- Gripe
- Express a complaint or grumble something. Clutch
- Acrimonious
- (Typically of speech or debate) angry and bitter
- Halcyon
- Denoting and a period of time in the past that was idyllically happy and peaceful instruction
- Circumspect
- Wary and unwilling to take risks
- Coalesce
- Come together and form one mass or whole
- Fetish
- A course of action to which one has an excessive and irrational commitment
- Gainsay
- Deny or contradict (a fact or statement)
- Smirch
- Make something dirty; soil; taint
- Impromptu
- Done without being planned, organized or rehearsed in
- Hybris
- Excessive pride or self-confidence
- Congeries
- Disorderly collection, a jumble
- Col
- Together/ With Other includes Con, Co, Cor
- Co
- Together/With Other includes Con, Col, Cor
- Ode
- A lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject often elevated in style or manner and written in varied or irregular meter; a poem meant to be sung
- Resonance
- The quality in a sound of being deep, full, and reverberating
- Copiously
- Abundantly
- Umbrage
- A feeling of anger caused by being offended
- Metonymy
- The substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant.
- Belligerent
- Hostile and aggressive
- Ecclesiastical
- of or relating to the Christian Church or its clergy
- Dally
- Act or move slowly
- Assonance
- In poetry the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enoug to each other for the echo to be discernible
- Bicameral
- Having two branches or chambers
- Acquiescence
- Accept something reluctantly but without protest
- Wanton
- Deliberate and unprovoked
- Pre
- Before
- Symbol
- A thing that represents or stands for something else
- Blasphemy
- The act or offense of speaking sacrilegiously about God or sacred things, profane talk
- Onomatopoeia
- The formation of word from a sound associated with what it is named
- Bedlam
- A scene of uproar and confusion
- Maraud
- Raom in search of things to steal or people to attack; raid and plunder
- Ebb
- Move away from the land, recede, gradually lessen or reduce
- Hovel
- Small squalid, unpleasant, or simply constructed dwelling
- Cantankerous
- Bad-tempered, argumentative and uncooperative
- Demented
- Driven to behave irrationally due to anger, distress, or excitement
- Pervasive
- Having the quality or tendency to pervade or permeate
- Vernacular
- Dialect
- Introspection
- The examination or observation of one's own mental and emotional processes
- Manifest
- Clear or obvious to the eye/ D. Display or show (a quality or feeling) by one's acts or appearance
- Tether
- Tie (an animal) with a rope or chain so as to restrict its movement.
- Enjambment
- The continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza
- Creed
- A system of Christian or other religious belief, a faith
- Contrive
- Create or bring about (an object or a situation) by deliberate use of skill and artifice
- Glutton
- An excessively greedy eater
- Skulk
- Keep out of sight, typically with a sinister or cowardly motive
- Calumny
- The making of false and defamatory statements in order to damage
- Sidle
- Walk in a furtive, unobtrusive, or timid manner,
- Allegory
- A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one
- Dissemble
- Conceal one's true motives, feelings, or beliefs, disguise or conceal
- Intrinsic
- Belonging naturally; essential
- Arbiter
- A person who settles a dispute or has ultimate authority in a matter
- Maven
- An expert or connoisseur
- De
- Down
- Entail
- A settlement of the inheritance of propery over a number of generations so that it remains without a family or other group
- Ominous
- Giving the impression that something bad or unpleasant is going to happen; threatening; inauspicious
- Simile
- A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing using like or as
- Barbaric
- Savagely Cruel, Brutal
- Catharsis
- The process of releasing and thereby providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions
- Braggart
- A preson who boasts about achievements or possessions
- Glib
- (Of words or the person speaking them) fluent and voluble but insincere and shallow
- Unilateral
- Involving only one part or side
- Catholic
- Including a wide variety of things, all embracing
- Scrutinize
- Examine or inspect closely and thoroughly
- Gratuitous
- Uncalled for; lacking a good reason.
- Posterity
- All future generations of people
- Ascribe
- Attribute something to a cause
- Preclude
- Prevent from happening; make impossible
- Shaman
- A person regarded as having access to, and influence in the world of spirits
- Unmitigated
- Absolute, unqualified
- Diffident
- Modest of shy due to lack of self-confidence
- Allusion
- An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicity, an indirect or passing reference
- Contrite
- Feeling or expressing remorse or penitence; affected by guilt
- Rebarbative
- Annoyance, irritation