Comprehensive Vocabulary
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- chary
- careful, cautious
- congruent
- equal, agreeing, or corresponding
- conventional
- conforming to socially accepted customs
- copious
- abundant, plentiful
- deride
- ridicule
- droll
- humorous or odd quality
- enthrall
- to hold spellbound. to charm
- inundate
- overflow, engulf
- latent
- capable buy not presently occurring
- licentious
- loose moral
- lucid
- clear and understandable
- nefarious
- wicked
- paroxysm
- a fit, attack
- penitent
- truly sorrowful
- portentous
- pompous, haughty
- pretence
- a claim made or implied
- proffer
- offer
- propitiation
- repayment for a debt
- resolute
- firm determination
- scrupulous
- high morals
- sequester
- isolate, hideaway
- succor
- relief, furnishing reprieve
- trifle (vb)
- to talk in jest or with intent to mislead
- attitude
- the author's tone in writing
- language
- describes the characteristics of the overall use of language
- details
- facts included or omitted
- rhetorical strategy
- plan or method whereby an essay is developed to be effective
- occasion
- where or why an author has begun to write
- audience
- the author's intended reader or listener
- voice
- the stance the author takes in offering ideas (how he says what is said)
- images
- vivid appeals to understand through the sensed (word pictures)
- diction
- the work choices the author uses (effective selection)
- syllogism
- a rhetorical discourse using major and minor premises to prove a conclusion
- tone
- understand of the author's attitude toward the subject and audience
- syntax
- the way words are arranged in a sentence and how that affects meaning
- process analysis
- step-by-step explanations
- exemplification
- using examples to illustrate
- exposition
- writing that exposes ideas to readers through explaining and defining
- rhetoric
- the art of using language persuasively or effectively
- enthymeme
- writer gives primary premise and assumes reader will supply missing knowledge to achieve the conclusion
- paradox
- contradictory occurrence or statement
- necromancy
- communication with the dead for magic purposes
- maxim
- a general truth
- impugn
- resist, oppose or attack
- impious
- lacking in reverence or respect
- hyperbole
- exaggeration for effect
- formidable
- causing fear or dread
- execration
- a curse
- empanel
- a panel, a list of jurors
- emaciate
- to become very thin
- dialectic
- two opposing forces that must exist simultaneously
- credulity
- readiness or willingness to believe
- congenial
- friendly, sociable
- calumniate
- make false, malicious statements
- avouch
- to declare as a matter of fact
- ascetic
- practicing strict self denial
- abhor
- hate or be in horror
- peradventure
- perhaps or possibly
- perdition
- utter destruction
- preternatural
- existing outside of nature
- remonstrance
- earnest protest, complaint