| A | B |
|---|
| Advocate | to argue for or plead in favor of |
| Discrete | made up of separate or distinct things or parts |
| Domain | a sphere of activity |
| Enhance | to make better, or add to the value or effectiveness |
| Scope | the size or extent of the activity or subject that is involved |
| Botanical | related to plants |
| Clime | climate areas |
| Prognosticate | to forecast or predict |
| Benefaction | a gift or assistance |
| ephemeral | a short-lived plant |
| Discreet | intentionally unobtrusive |
| synthesize | to form by combining parts or elements |
| plethora | an overabundance or excess |
| ambiguous | open to or having several possible meanings or interpretations; lacking clearness |
| fruition | attainment of anything desired; realization; accomplishment |
| adjacent | lying close, next to or contiguous |
| reciprocate | to respond to gesture, feeling or action by making a corresponding one |
| obscure | not clear or plain; ambiguous; to make dark, dim or indistinct |
| benevolent | characterized by expressing goodwill or kindly feelings |
| comprehensive | complete or of sufficient scope to include all aspects |
| equivalent | equal to or similar |
| incentive | an inducement or motivation to do something |
| innovate | to change or develop through new or original methods, processes, or ideas |
| media | a means or vehicle for communication |
| cognizant | aware or conscious of |
| moratorium | a temporary suspension or agreed-upon delay |
| retaliate | to respond in kind to having been acted upon, often with harmful intent |
| precipitate | to cause something to happen rapidly or unexpectedly |
| complacency | contented self-satisfaction |
| manifest | to show or reveal |
| mores | established customs and conventions |
| provocation | an action intended to elicit an angered response |
| allusion | an indirect reference to a famous person, place, event, or literary work |
| universal theme | a message that can be found throughout the literature of all time periods |
| theme | the underlying messages an author wants the audience to understand |
| seminal document | a very important and influential document |
| ludicrous | causing laughter because of absurdity; ridiculous |
| zeal | eager or enthusiastic desire or endeavor |
| inquisitive | eager for knowledge, intellectually curious |
| serendipity | the act of making desirable discoveries by accident; good fortune, luck |
| coalesce | to grow together or into one body |
| ethos | refers to an ethical appeal that relies on the credibility of the speaker |
| pathos | in this method of appeal, a speaker tries to provoke an emotional response from the audience |
| logos | a speaker using this type of appeal supports his or her claim with reasons and evidence such as facts, examples, and statistics |
| comprise | to consist or be made up of |
| incidence | the occurrence or frequency of something |
| priority | something that is more important or considered more important than another thing |
| thesis | a statement or premise that is defended by an argument |
| ultimate | concluding a process or progression; final |
| intolerable | incapable of being tolerated or put up with |
| archetypes | familiar character types that appear over and over again in literature |
| tragedy | a drama in which a series of actions leads to the downfall of the main character, called the tragic hero |
| tragic hero | the main character in a tragedy and has a tragic flaw |
| tragic flaw | an error in judgment or a character defect |
| dramatic irony | results when the audience knows more than one or more of the characters |
| soliloquy | a speech given by a character alone on stage, used to reveal his or her private thoughts and feelings |
| aside | a character's remark, either to the audience or to another character, that no one else on stage is supposed to hear |
| repetition | the use of words and phrases more than once to emphasize ideas |
| parallelism | the repetition of grammatical structures to express ideas that are related or of equal importance |
| rhetorical questions | the use of questions that require no answer to make the speaker's rightness seem self-evident |
| catastrophe | a disastrous final outcome |
| blank verse | unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter |
| intolerable | incapable of being tolerated or put up with |
| fathom | to penetrate the truth of; comprehend or understand |
| efficacy | capacity for producing a desired result or effect |
| kerfuffle | a fuss, commotion or minor disturbance |
| extrapolate | to form an opinion or to make an estimate about something from known facts |
| assimilate | to take in and utilize; to take into the mind and thoroughly comprehend |
| herculean | tremendous in size, strength, difficulty, or effort |
| expedite | to speed up the progress of; hasten |
| pandemonium | wild and noisy disorder or confusion; uproar |
| hinder | to obstruct or delay the progress of |
| connotation | an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning |
| allusion | an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference |
| audacity | boldness or daring, especially with confident or arrogant disregard for personal safety, conventional thought, or other restrictions |
| inconceivable | impossible to comprehend; unbelievable |
