| A | B |
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| Paradox | an apparent contradiction the revels the underlying truth |
| allusion | a brief reference to a person, place, event, or well known words that the author excpects the reader to know. |
| irony | physical irony, the opposite pf what you think is going to happen happens or mental ____ you say one thing but mean anouther (sarcasm.) |
| metaphor | a comparison that is not directly states between two unlike objects the purpose of the comparison in to conveythe speakers feelings about an essential charcterisics. |
| Personification | a special kind of metaphor in which an idea, object, or animal is given human charcteristics |
| symbol | a concrete object that stands for both itself and for something else, some larger meaning |
| alliteraton | the repetition of initial consonant words |
| Adjoining | connecting, next to each other |
| allegedly | supposedly, or doubtfully |
| Alercations | a heated noisy dispute |
| anxiety | nervousness |
| appalling | surprising incredible,comes as a surprise (often bad) |
| arbitrate | to settle a fight/ or decide in a quarrel |
| auspicioous | signs of success |
| austere | harsh in manner |
| circumstantial | on circumstance |
| clutches | grasping, in the grasp of |
| contempuosly | nasty, mean |
| contraband | smuggled goods |
| corroborate | to make certain |
| corrupting | ta cause corruption, making bad, mean, dishonest |
| curtness | rudeness, short, not ocnversational |
| detachment | coming off of detached from |
| devices | schemes, plans, to do as one pleases |
| discreet | quietly, secretly |
| dispel | driven away |
| edification | for own good, morally correct |
| enormity | outrageous |
| flighty | not very constant, uneducated |
| hereditiy | something that is inherited, inheritance |
| manacles | handcuffs |
| mentality | intellectual mindset, or character |
| mortifying | appaling, morbid |
| motivated | to be given reason to , to have the desire to |
| navigate | to find one way around, to direct ones selfin the correct direction |
| petitioned | to seek something, to fight for a cause |
| phenomena | an unusual happening, something out of the ordinary |
| poised | positioned, or well educated, smart, able to carry out of the ordinary |
| preoccupied | busy with something, mind set on something else |
| prerogative | an exclusive privilege |
| protesed | objected to |
| recluse | person that lives shut off from the world |
| reluctantly | unwilling |
| remorse | deep feeling of regret from wrong doing |
| respectively | with/in respect for the order given |
| ritual | a routine, something done often, certain way of doing something |
| shortcomings | faliures, deficiencies |
| spurious | not genuine, false |
| subdued | calmed, under control, spaced out, to be conquered |
| tedious | time-taking, annoying, takes time, does on |
| tentative | uncertain, hesitant |
| transparent | cleer see through- able |
| vauge | unclear |
| veneer | superficial appearance |
