Lit Analysis Final Review
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- Humorous; playfully joking
- facetious
- Meant to impress others;flashy
- ostentatious
- best possible; most favorable; most desirable
- optimum
- something that causes damage,harm,or loss
- detriment
- experienced through the imagination; not experienced directly
- vicarious
- skillful in using the hands or body
- dexterous
- careful about moral standards; conscientious
- scrupulous
- sociable; enjoying and seeking the company of others
- gregarious
- good judgement or tact in actions or speaking
- discretion
- having to do with seeing, hearing, feeling, tasting, or smelling
- sensory
- to place close together, especially in order to compare or contrast
- juxtapose
- a great lack of energy; inactivity due to laziness
- lathargy
- able to be interpreted in more than one way; not clear
- ambiguous
- without sense or meaning; foolish
- inane
- a person opposed to established ideas or beliefs, especially in politics or religion
- dissidents
- to decorate; beautify by adding details
- embellish
- to support financially; provide a grant or contribution
- subsidize
- to spend or use wastefully or thoughtlessly
- squander
- unintentional; accidental
- inadvertent
- happenging now and then; occasional
- sparadic
- inactive; alive but not actively growing, as if asleep
- dormant
- to spread or scatter widely;distribute
- disseminate
- tot able to be canceled or undone;irreversible
- irrevocable
- a spread or increase
- proliferation
- to support; strengthen with futher evidence; provide proof
- corroborate
- to cause to happen quickly, suddently, or sooner than expected
- precipitate
- to life, especially with some mechanical means, like a cable
- hoist
- a fake; a person who falsely claims to have some special skill or knowledge
- charlatan
- to bracn off in different directions from the same starting point; to become different
- diverge
- illegal
- illicit
- a natural preference or tendency
- propensity
- deserving of blame criticism or disapproval
- reprehensible
- happening by chance by accident or at random lucky
- fortuitous
- comfort in sorrow or misfortune; consolation
- solace
- a person who serves as a connection between individuals or groups a go between
- liaison
- to be deliberately vague in order to mislead
- equivocated
- faultless; perfect
- impeccable
- showing or expressing concern care or attention
- solicitous
- tending toward or pen to something beforehand
- predisposed
- a pretense or counterfeit something meant to decieve
- sham
- to fall or decrease in value or price to lower in the value of
- depreciate
- not chosen carefully not based on careful selection
- indiscriminate
- marked by much sitting requiring or taking little exercise
- sedentary
- a bliefe or pirniple held to be true by and indivudal or group
- tenet
- brief and clear effeectively concise
- terse
- to hold up strengthen or reincforce support with a rigid object
- bolster
- curious eager to learn
- inquisitive
- plentifully supplied well filled
- replete
- vague, unclear
- nebulous
- to assign to a less important or less satisfying position, place, or condition
- relegate
- something tha acts as a disadvantage a drawback
- liability
- done in secret kept hidden
- clandestine
- out of place having parts that are not in harmony or that are inconsitent
- incongruous
- a possilbe future event that must be prepared for or gaurded against, possiblility
- contingency
- living growing or produced naturally in a particular place, native
- indigenous
- beyond what is needed wanted or useful extra
- superflous
- producing many works results or offspring fertile
- prolific
- to clear of an accusatin or charge prove innocent
- exonerate
- self cnetered seeing everything in terms of oneself
- egocentric
- to restore to a previous position or condition brin back into being or use
- reinstate
- to delay or slow get in the way of
- impede
- including much of evertying broad or complete in coverage
- inclusive
- to speak or wrte in favor of support
- advocate
- the authority to administer justice authority range or extent of authority
- jurisdiction
- a strong dislike or distate hatred
- antipathy
- to set free from slavery caaptivity or oppresission
- emancipate
- contarty to nature or reason and thus laughable absurd
- preposterous
- a personal peculairatiy quirk
- idiosyncrasy
- dangerous risky uncertain
- precarious
- about to happen
- imminent
- very troubled distressed
- distraught
- using or containg too many wrods
- verbose
- done quickly with little attention tod etail not thourough
- cursory
- having to do with the issue at hand, relevant
- germane
- clearly expressed easily understood
- lucid
- truly sorry for having done wrong repentatn
- contrite
- well proportioned balanced the same on both sides
- symmetrical
- a situation marked by difficulty hardhsip or misfortune
- plight
- a secret by two or more people especially for a harful or illegal purpose
- consiparcy
- an expert in fine art or in matters of taste
- connoisseur