English Exam Study Cards
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- Onslaught
- A violent attack
- Illicit
- Not permitted by custom or law; unlawful
- Monosyllabic
- A word of one syllable
- Predilection
- Preference
- Ascertain
- To discover through investigation
- Tranquility
- Free from agitation; calm
- Tyranny
- Absolute power
- Malignant
- Highly harmful or dangerous
- Iniquities
- Wickedness; sinfulness
- Perpetual
- Lasting for eternity
- Provoke
- To incite to anger or resentment
- Contentious
- Quarrelsome
- Abitrate
- To judge or decide
- Benevolence
- An inclination to perform kind or charitable acts
- Essential
- Necessary
- Allusion
- A literary reference to a familiar person, place thing, or event
- Simile
- A comparison of two unlike things using the words as or like
- Metaphor
- A comparison of two unlike things in which no word of comparison (as or like) is used
- Personification
- Giving an inanimate object human-like qualities or features
- Connotation
- a feeling or an idea a word invokes on you
- Alliteration
- The repitition of initial consonant sounds in words