| A | B |
|---|
| emancipate | release or liberate |
| aspire | to have ambitious hopes or plans; to strive toward a higher goal |
| preposterous | ridiculous, absurd |
| sterling | genuine; excellent made of silver |
| candid | frank, sincere, impartial, unbiased |
| horde | a vast number as of people in a crowd |
| flair | a natural quality |
| expedient | a means to an end; advantageous, useful |
| dwindle | to lessen, diminish, decrease |
| rabid | violently intense extreme mad infected, with rabies |
| mire | mud wet swampy ground; a tough situation |
| invincible | not able to be defeated; unconquerable |
| metaphor | a comparison between two seemingly unrelated things without the use of like or as |
| imagery | language that forms a picture in the reader's mind and appeals to sight, touch, hearing, sound or taste. |
| simile | a direct comparison using like or as to compare two unrelated things |
| a symbol | something that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself |
| personification | giving human qualities or actions to objects, animals or ideas |
| onomatopoeia | the use of words or phrases that sound like the things they describe (buzz, chop, clatter, mumble, clank) |
| alliteration | the repetition of the initial consonant sounds ("the bass boat, bobbing beautifully") |
| protagonist | the main character of a story |
| conflict | tension that results from confronting obstacles that get in the way of a character attaining her dreams or reaching goals |
| hyperbole | a deliberate exaggeration such as "I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse." |
