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Java Games: Flashcards, matching, concentration, and word search. |
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WordWright Challenge 2012-2013 Meet 2 (grade 11-12)
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| Blandness | mildness, plainness |
| Abhorrence | hatred |
| Incensed | angry, fired up |
| Effusive | pouring out or overflowing with emotion |
| Punctilious | very thorough, courteous, or socially correct |
| Martinet | disciplinarian |
| Proprieties | manners and proper social customs |
| Hidebound | narrow and rigid in opinion |
| Disdain | to look down upon dismissively |
| Feint | trick or ploy |
| Periodic | sentence structure in which the main concluding thought is withheld until the end. |
| Colloquialism | conversational or informal language |
| Absolute construction | a word, phrase, or construction that is isolated syntactically from the rest of a sentence (“This being the case, we left” or “This having been done, we continued.”) |
| Anaphora | repetition of words or a group of words in a series of successive clauses or sentences. |
| Litotes | understatement, esp. when achieved by using negation of a term in place of using an antonym of that term, as in "She was not a little upset" for "She was extremely upset." |
| Hyperbole | exaggeration |
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Burroughs High School |
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