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Unit 6 Vocab
OFY English 4B Unit 6 Vocab
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English
12th Grade
02/04/2010

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animosity
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a feeling of hostility or hatred
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apprehend
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to perceive; to be aware of
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cavaclade
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a ceremonial procession
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confining
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restricting
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conjecture
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to infer from inconclusive evidence; to guess
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deference
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courteous respect
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digress
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to stray from the main subject
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diversion
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an amusement; an entertainment
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edifice
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a building, especially a large one
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elate
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to make happy
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expedient
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a means to an end
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inveterate
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firmly established; deep-rooted
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laudable
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praiseworthy
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loath
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reluctent, unwilling
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magnitude
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greatness of size or extent
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malicious
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deliberately harmful
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quench
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to put out; to extinguish
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scaffold
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a raised platform
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sustenance
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food or other items that support life
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aphorism
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a short, pointed statement that expresses a wise or clever observation about human experience
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diary
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an individual's private day-to-day account of persona thoughts, feelings, and experiences written for his or her own use rather than for publication
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epigram
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a short, witty poem; a saying
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extended metaphor
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a metaphor that compares two unlike things in various ways throughout a paragrah, stanza, or selection
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historial fiction
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a work of fiction, such as a historical novel that sets characters, either real or imagined, against a backdrop of actual events
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inversion
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the reversak if the usual work order in a prose sentence or line of poetry
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metaphor
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a figure of speech that akes a comparison between two seemingly nlike things to help readers perceive the first thing more vividly and to suggest and underlying similarity between the two
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satire
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literature that exposes to ridicule the vices or follies of people or societies throgh devices such as exaggeration, understatement, and irony
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symbol
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any person, animal, place, object, or event that exists on a literal level within a work but also represents something on a figurative level
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tone
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a reflection of the writer's attitude toward a subject as conveyed through such elements as word choice, punctuaton, sentence structure, and figure of speech
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