| A | B |
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| venerable | commanding respect because of great age or impressive dignity |
| homely | unattractive |
| barnacle | a marine crustacean that, as an adult, lives attached to rocks, ship bottoms, etc. |
| rosette | a flower-shaped arrangement of ribbon or other material, used as an ornament or badge |
| entrails | innards, guts or intestines |
| peony | a flower |
| tarnished | stained or blemished |
| frayed | unraveled, tattered |
| bailer | a bucket, dipper, or other container used for removing water from a boat |
| thwart (n.) | a seat across a boat, esp. one used by a rower |
| gunwale/gunnel | the upper edge of the side of a vessel |
| mutability | liable or subject to change or alteration |
| lilting | sounded in a light, tripping, or upwardly rhythmic manner. |
| lofty | elevated |
| idolatry | adoration, reverence, worship |
| metaphysical | concerned with abstract thought or subjects, as existence, causality, or truth |
| condescension | disdain, arrogant disapproval |
| subjective | based on personal evaluation rather than quantifiable, external data |
| communion | shared experience, empathy |
| figurative | not literal |
| irony | a verbal expression or outcome of events contrary to what was, or might have been, expected |
| prosaic | having the qualities of prosaic (non-verse) writing; ordinary |
| cadence | rhythmic flow of a sequence of sounds or words |
| paradox | a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. |
| anthropomorphism | the attribution of human form or behavior to a deity, animal, etc. |
| anticlimax | a noticeable or ludicrous descent from lofty ideas or expressions to banalities or commonplace remarks |
| epiphany | a sudden, intuitive perception of or insight into the reality or essential meaning of something, usually initiated by some simple, homely, or commonplace occurrence or experience |
| closure | resolution |
| onomatopoeia | the use of imitative and naturally suggestive words for rhetorical effect |
| assonance | the repetition of vowel sounds in a line or lines of poetry |
| duality | dichotomy; the state or quality of being twofold |
