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15 Cards in this Set
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cajole |
(v.) to urge, coax (Fred’s buddies cajoled him into attending the bachelor party.) |
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defile |
(v.) to make unclean, impure (She defiled the calm of the religious building by playing her banjo.) |
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fastidious |
(adj.) meticulous, demanding, having high and often unattainable standards (Mark is so fastidious that he is never able to finish a project because it always seems imperfect to him.) |
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hackneyed |
(adj.) unoriginal, trite (Critic of her new book, called it a hackneyed imitation of her best selling novel) |
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impertinent |
(adj.) rude, insolent (Most of your comments are so impertinent that I don’t wish to dignify them with an answer.) |
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modicum |
(n.) a small amount of something (Refusing to display even a modicum of sensitivity, Henrietta announced her boss’s affair in front of the entire office.) |
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ostensible |
(adj.) appearing as such, seemingly (Jack’s ostensible reason for driving was that airfare was too expensive, but in reality, he was afraid of flying.) |
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pejorative |
(adj.) derogatory, uncomplimentary (The evening’s headline news covered an international scandal caused by a pejorative statement the famous senator had made in reference to a foreign leader.) |
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quixotic |
(adj.) idealistic, impractical (Edward entertained a quixotic desire to fall in love at first sight in a laundromat.) |
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rife |
(adj.) abundant (Surprisingly, the famous novelist’s writing was rife with spelling errors.) |
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Antithesis |
a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else. "love is the antithesis of selfishness" |
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Metonymy |
the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant, for example suit for business executive, or the track for horse racing. |
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Anaphora |
the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses. |
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Zeugma |
a figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses (e.g.,John and his license expired last week ) or to two others of which it semantically suits only one (e.g., with weeping eyes and hearts ). |
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Polysyndeton |
the use of several conjunctions in close succession, especially where some could otherwise be omitted (as in "he ran and jumped and laughed for joy") |
