English I Midterm 2005
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- adulterate
- to corrupt
- ambidextrous
- able to use both hands qually well; skillful; deceitful, hypocritical
- augment
- to make larger, increase
- bereft
- deprived of
- deploy
- to position or arrage
- dour
- stern, unyielding, gloomy
- fortitude
- courage in facing difficulties
- gape
- to stare with open mouth
- gibe
- to say taunting words; expression of scorn
- guise
- external appearance (cover, mask)
- insidious
- intended to deceive or entrap; sly and treacherous
- intimation
- a hint, indirect suggestion
- opulent
- wealthy, luxurious, ample, grandiose
- pliable
- easily bent, flexible
- reiterate
- to say again; repeat
- stolid
- not easily moved mentally or emotionall; dull, unresponsive
- tentative
- experimental in nature; uncertain, hesitant
- unkempt
- not combed; untidy; rude
- verbatim
- word for word
- warily
- cautiously
- adroit
- skillful
- amicable
- friendly
- averse
- having deep-seated istate
- belligerent
- warlike
- benevolent
- charitable and kindly
- cursory
- hasty
- duplicity
- treachery, deceifulness
- extol
- to priase extravagantly
- feasible
- possible
- grimace
- wry face; facial distortion
- holocaust
- large-scale destruction, especially by fire; burnt offering
- impervious
- not affected or hurt by
- impetus
- moving force, stimulus or impulse
- jeopardy
- danger
- meticulous
- extremely careful; attention to details
- nostalgia
- longing for something in the past
- quintessense
- purest essence or form of something
- retrogress
- to move backwards; to return to earlier condition
- scrutinize
- to examine closely
- tepid
- lukewarm; unenthusiastic; marked by absense of interest
- adversary
- opponent; enemy
- alienate
- to tun away
- artifice
- skillful or ingenious device; clever trick; trickery
- coerce
- to compel; force
- craven
- cowardly; a coward
- culinary
- of/related to cooking/kitchen
- delete
- to erase
- demise
- a death
- exhilarate
- to enliven, cheer, give spirit or liveliness to
- fallow
- plowed by unseeded; inactive
- harass
- to diturb, worry
- inclement
- stormy, harsh
- muse
- to think about in dreamy way, ponder
- negligible
- so unimportan that it can be disregarded
- perpetuate
- to make permanent or long lasting
- precedent
- an example that may serve as basis for imitation or later action
- punitive
- inflicting or aiming at punishment
- redress
- to set right, remedy; relief from wrong or injury
- sojourn
- a temporary stay; to stay for a time
- urbane
- refined in manner or style, suave
- geminism
- priniple that women should have plitical, economic, and social rights equal to those of men
- chicano
- people in the US whose ancestry can be traced to Mexico
- bildungsroman
- genre that details the maturation, psychological devlopment and moral education of the principal character; German for 'growth and devlopment'
- vignette
- a short literary sket or description
- postmodernism
- critical theory that questions objective truth, intrinsic meaning, and assertiosn of privilege and power
- barrio
- spanish word meaning district; currently a spansih-speaking neighborhood
- imergy
- colelctive set of images
- canteen
- small cafeterial or snack bar
- pun
- play of words that sound the same with different meanings
- oxymoron
- pairing of contradictory words
- paradox
- seeming contradiction that proves to be true
- alliteration
- repetition of initial consonant sound
- smilie
- a figure of speech that makes a direct comparison between two subjects using either like, as, or than
- metaphor
- a figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else. the identification suggests a comparison between two things that are identified as in "death is a long sleep"
- personification
- figure of speech where a nonhuman object is given human characteristics. effective personification of things or ideas make them seem vital and alive, as if human
- sonnet
- composed of three quatrains and a concluding couplet, rhyming abab cdcd efef gg
- quatrain
- four line stanza; four line division of sonnet marked off by rhyme scheme
- couplet
- two successive lines, usually in same meter, linked by rhyme
- scansion
- analysis of verse into matrical patterns
- iamb
- metrical unit with unstressed and stressed syllables
- imabic pentameeter
- type of meter in poetry, consisting of five feet in which the imab is drominant foot
- rhyme
- verse marked by consonance of the terminal sounds
- stress
- relative loudness or force of vocal utterance;
- soliloquy
- speech where character addresses audience directly revealing his/her thoughts; character alone on stage
- foil
- used to set contrast of characters
- antithesis
- figure of speech characterized by stongly contrasting words, cluases, sentences, or ideas; similar grammatical structure
- allusion
-
brief reference in text to person, place, or thing - fictitious or actual.
usually myths and mythology