vocab lit final
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- monologue
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a long speech made by one perfomer of by one person in a group
Because my friend does all the talking, our conversation usually turns into a monologue. - monarch
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a person who rules a kingdom or empire; a king or queen, emperor or emperess
Queen Vicotoria was monarch of the British empire at it's height. - unanimous
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being in complete agreement
To reach a verdict, a jury must achieve a unanimous decision. - trilogy
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a group of three literary or musical works that have a related theme.
The Lord of the Rings Tolkien's popular trilogy contains these novels, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and the Return of the King. - triumvirate
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a group of three, especially in authority
In ancient Rome the Second Triumvirate was composed of Mark Antony, Augustus Ceasar, and Lepidus. - quatrain
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a stanza or group of four lines of poetry
Most nursery rhymes, like Little Bo Peep has Lost Her Sheep, are written in quatrains. - pandemonium
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uproar
Pandemonium threatens to break out after Julius Ceasar is assassinated on the Ides of March, but in Shakespeare's play, Brutus calms the murderous senators. - omnipotent
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Having unlimited power; all powerful
To the ancient British tribes, the invading Roman army seemed omnipotent. - holocaust
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a great destruction, especially by fire
After the great 1906 earthquake, a holocaust swept through San Franscisco. - annihilate
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to destroy completely
We annihilated the opposing team. - negate
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to dissaprove; to nullify
Columbus' voyage to the New World negated the theory that the earth was flat. - vaunt
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to brag or boast
We vaunted after the basketball game. - microcosm
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a small world
The school community is a microcosm of the whole society in which it exists. - satiate
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to satisfy the appetite fully; to gratify to excess
During our stay in Italy, we satiated ourselves on art, opera, and pasta. - minutia
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a small or trivial detail
A minutia in archaeology can be a piece of bone or a pottery chip. - polygon
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a flat shape with many straight sides
Each of the five pointed stars on the american flag is a polygon. - magnate
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a wealthy, influential person, especially in business.
Ezra Cornell, a lumber magnate, left his fortune to found Cornell University. - antebellum
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of a period before a war, especially the American Civil War
Gone with the Wind describes life in antebellum Georgia. - avant-garde
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ahead of times, especially in the arts
Although considered extremely avant-garde in the 19th century, impressionists paintings are now so popular that they appear on calendars and greeting cards. - premonition
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a warning in advance
As she picked up the letter, she had a premonition that it carried bad news. - premier
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first in time or importance
The winners of the Super Bowl are considered the premier football team in the nation. - posterity
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future generations
Will our posterity inherit any wilderness lands at all? - posthumous
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occuring after death
The Diary of Anne Frank, which recounts the young girl's experiences in the Holocaust, has brought Anne posthumous fame.