| A | B |
|---|
| clove | strongly aromatic spice that is the dried flower bud of a tropical tree |
| bittersweet | causing feelings of happiness and sadness at the same time? |
| anomie | a feeling of disorientation and alienation from society caused by the perceived absence of a supporting social or moral framework |
| professorial | characterized by a didactic, authoritative tone |
| flippant | frivolous, superficial |
| blithe | carefee; happy-go-lucky |
| tristesse | gloom; sadness |
| insipid | dull; colorless; uninteresting |
| atonal | characterized by the absence of a tonal center |
| leavened | lightened |
| skepticism | doubt |
| reverence | admiration |
| antihero | a central character in a story who lacks traditionally expected characteristics of bravery |
| skeptical | dubious |
| massacre | butchery |
| disdain | scorn; contempt |
| crassness | tastelessness; vulgarity |
| secular | worldly |
| ideology | belief system |
| agenda | motive |
| bogus | counterfeit |
| goad | a pointed animal prod; stimulus |
| reflexive | automatic; knee-jerk; impulsive |
| sans | without |
| mortality | the state or condition of being subject to death |
| foster | to encourage |
| materialistic | acquisitive |
| transcendence | a state of being or existence above and beyond the limits of material experience |
| hyperbole | exaggeration |
| metaphor | a figure of speech that draws a comparison between two different things |
| allusive | characterized by the use of indirect references or subtle suggestion |
| irony | an outcome of events contrary to what was expected |
| oxymoron | A rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined |
| diction | word choice |
| Anaphora | the use of the same word or phrase at the beginning of several successive clauses |
| periodic sentence | A sentence in which the main clause or its predicate is withheld until the end |
| internal rhyme | Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse |
| apostrophe | The direct address of an absent or imaginary person or of a personified abstraction |
| alliteration | The repetition of the beginning sounds of words |
| paradox | a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. |
| synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole |
