| A | B |
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| metonymy | figure of speech that consists of the use of the name of one object that another is related to |
| purple patch | info added to text for dramatic effect |
| memento mori | Latin for "remember your mortality" |
| synecdoche | figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or whole is used for part |
| pejorative | tending to make or become worse |
| bent | a tendecy or inclination |
| vestige | visible trace of something that no longer exists |
| didactic | intended to instruct, inclined to teach |
| fortuitous | happening by accident or chance |
| arcane | known or understood by only a few |
| titivated | to make oneself smart or spruce |
| maxim | proverb |
| red herring | something intended to distract attention from real problem or issue |
| idiosyncracy | characteristic peculiar to an individual |
| Sisyphean | endless and unavailing, as labor or a task |
| incipience | state of beginning to exist |
| erudite | learned |
| etiology | the study of the causes of diseases |
| posit | to place, put, or set |
| injunctions | court order |
