| A | B |
|---|
| their | used to show ownership and possession; what belongs to them |
| there | used for a place or specific location |
| they're | a contraction: they are |
| com | prefix which means "together with" |
| compassion | sharing the deep suffering of another |
| commemorate | to honor the memory of |
| commodity | something that is useful |
| compulsory | something one is obligated or forced to do |
| commandeer | to seize for public use, or to confiscate |
| concurrent | happening at the same time and place |
| theocracy | a state governed by God |
| confiscate | to seize by authority; to commandeer |
| congenial | friendly |
| -ity or -ance/-ence | suffixes meaning "the state or quality of" |
| prosperity | the state of being prosperous (or well off financially) |
| depravity | state of being morally corrupt |
| complexity | the state of being complicated |
| civility | the state of being polite |
| felicity | the state of being very happy |
| deference | the state of submitting to another's ideas or opinions |
| severence | the state or condition of being separated fromthe group; refers to pay given when fired |
| subsistence | the act or means of maintaining life |
| forbearance | the state of being tolerant of others |
| variance | difference |
| Age of Reason | literary time period which valued the intellect above all else |
| persuasion | the act of causing another to believe something or to do something |
| Romanticism | a literary movement (following the Age of Reason and the speeches) which valued imagination over the intellect |
| Transcendentalism | the belief that knowledge or reality is best gined from intuition and imagination |
| ver | a Latin root meaning truth |
| verify | to prove the truth of |
| prevaricate | to lie |
| veritable | unquestionably true |
| verbatim | word for word |
| hologram | a photographic film that is a record of an illuminated light wave |
| synthesizer | computerized electronic device for the production of sound |
| Realism | literary era following the Civil War which stressed writing about real people -- flaws and all |
| oscillate | to swing back and forth; to sway between extremes |
