| A | B |
|---|
| Deployment | To distribute (persons or forces) systematically or strategically. |
| Didactic | overly instructive or moralizing |
| Ubiquitous | ever-present or everywhere |
| Banal | Drearily commonplace and often predictable; trite |
| Pervasive | all-encompassing, persistent |
| Template | pattern or stencil |
| Dogmatist | extremist or diehard |
| Mantra | A sacred verbal formula repeated in prayer, meditation, or incantation; or a commonly repeated phrase |
| Default | the preset selection of an option offered by a system, which will always be followed except when explicitly altered |
| Stakes | personal interest or involvement |
| Infuse | to fill or pervade |
| Glacial | exceedingly slow-moving |
| Authenticate | validate or confirm |
| Infrangible | incapable of being broken, violated, or infringed |
| Codify | to organize or collect together (laws, rules, procedures, etc.) into a system or code |
| Insidious | treacherous; Working or spreading harmfully in a subtle or stealthy manner |
| Myriad | countless, innumerable |
| Petty | trivial or small-minded |
| Dogma | system of belief; tenets |
| Convention | General agreement on or acceptance of certain practices or attitudes |
| Posit | to hypothesize or imagine |
| Hip | Keenly aware of or knowledgeable about the latest trends or developments |
| Irreverent | disrespectful or sacrilegious |
| Ethics | guiding moral principles |
| Smug | self-satisfied or arrogant |
| Sentimental | sappy or over-romantic |
| Self-deprecation | the act of belittling or undervaluing oneself |
| wry | cynical or drily ironic |
| mordant | caustic and sarcastic |
| incantatory | used to describe written or oral expressions delivered in a chant-like or enchanting manner |
| deadpan | unsmiling, straight-faced |
| Diction | word choice |
| Parable | A simple story illustrating a moral or religious lesson |
| Platitude/bromide | a trite, dull, or obvious remark or statement; cliché |
| Genre | type of writing or performance |
| Epigram | a witty, often paradoxical remark, concisely expressed |
| Rhetorical | language used for stylistic or persuasive effect |
| Oxymoron | a figure of speech that combines contradictory terms |
| Persona | the “voice” of the speaker or narrator created by a dramatic monologue or essay |
| Cadence | tempo, speed |
| Second-person | point of view in which the narrator refers to one of the characters as "you", therefore making the audience member feel as if he or she is a character within the story. |
| Hyperbolic | exaggerated |
| Compound clause | sentence which includes multiple subject-verb pairs |
