WKHS Week 13 Vocabulary
Terms
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- bombastic
- pretentious; pompous (adj)
- diction
- word choice intended to convey a certain effect
- harbinger
- a forerunner; a herald (N)
- simile
- comparison of two different things or ideas through the use of the words like or as
- effervescent
- bubbly; lively (adj)
- obdurate
- hard; unmoved by persuasion (adj)
- zealous
- enthusiastically devoted (adj)
- pulchritude
- physical beauty (N)
- fecund
- fruitful; productive (adj)
- timorous
- easily frightened (adj)
- narration
- one of the four types of composition
- magnanimous
- showing courageous spirit, especially in forgiving insult or injury; not selfish (adj)
- incarcerate
- to put in prison (V)
- disheveled
- untidy (adj)
- ravenous
- hungry; very eager (adj)
- pinnacle
- the highest point (N)