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| to say or plead in protest, objection |
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| to show or feel a lively or triumphant joy; rejoice |
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| any unlikely or artificial device serving this purpose |
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| unreal; imaginary; visionary |
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| a person or thing that has become renewed or restored after suffering calamity or apparent annihilation. |
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| a bound collection of maps. |
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| inclined or eager to fight; aggressively hostile; belligerent; pugnacious. |
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| showing a decline of mental faculties, especially associated with old age; weak-minded; senile |
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| slow, having or showing a disposition to avoid exertion; slothful: an indolent person. |
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| tending or threatening to break out into open violence; explosive: a volatile political situation. |
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| Greek myth a Titan, who stole fire from Olympus to give to mankind and in punishment was chained to a rock, where an eagle tore at his liver until Hercules freed him |
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| tending to argument or strife; quarrelsome: a contentious crew. |
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| a formal expression of high praise; eulogy |
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| a letter, especially a formal or didactic one; written communication. |
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| romantic spirit or tendency. |
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| to take dishonestly; steal; filch; pilfe |
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| a strategy to convince someone using a situation |
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| an extreme exxageration, a rethoric strategy to emphasize something. |
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| understatement, especially that in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary, as in “not bad at all.” |
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| a figure of speech that consists of the use of the name of one object or concept for that of another to which it is related, or of which it is a part, as “scepter” for “sovereignty,” or “the bottle” for “strong drink,” or “count heads (or noses)” for “count people. |
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