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English
10th Grade
03/18/2010

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Term
Marial
Definition

Military; suggesting war; warlike

 

hint hint: arts

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Cliche
Definition

an overused idea or expression; a trite saying

 

hint hint: have a nice day.

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prolific
Definition

producing a great deal of something producing many young or much friut.

 

hint hint: the mother had 8 kids.

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Wan
Definition

sickly pale or faint; colorless

 

hint hint: you are white, are you sick?

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Aesthetic
Definition

artistic, having to do with art or beauty; sensitive to art and beauty

 

hint hint: That sky is beautiful, i wish i was able to paint that.

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Charism
Definition

a special quality of leadership or a special charm that captures the public imagination and inspires decotion

 

hint hint: poisn ( like in fairytales)

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Recipents
Definition

a person who recieves somthing

 

hint hint: i recieved my check yesterday.

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Emphatically
Definition

forcefully; asertively

 

hint hint: i sat down so hard i broke the chair.

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paradoxes
Definition

a statement that may be true but that seems to say contadictory things

 

hint hint: a pair of docs.

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conceived
Definition

to imagine or develp as an idea; to understand or grasp; to become pregnant with.

 

hint hint: pregnet

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stanzaa
Definition

a group of consecutive lines that form a single unit of poetry

 

hint hint: paragraph of a poem

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tercet
Definition

a three line stanza

 

hint hint: tres

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simile
Definition

a comparison of two diffrent things using "like" or "as"

 

Hint hint: i was fat as a pregnet women

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metaphor
Definition
a comparison of two different things without using "like" or "as"
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dialect
Definition
a form of langueage as it is spoken in a particular geographic area or region
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