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29 Cards in this Set
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denigrate
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to sully or defame, to speak damagingly of
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denotation
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literal meaning of a word
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descant
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a discussion or discourse on a particualr theme, an ornamental melody played above a theme in music
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diction
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the authors choice of words
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didactic
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intended to instruct
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dilettante
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one who takes up art, music, etc, purely for amusement; a dabbler
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dirge
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a song for the dead, slow, heavy, depressed, melancholy
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discursive
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digressive, rambling
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disdain
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full of or showing scorn, scornful
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dissembling
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disguising or concealing something, feigning
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dissonance
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the grating (harsh sound) of incompatible sounds
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doggerel
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crude, simplistic verse, often in sing song rhyme, limmericks
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domestic
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a hired household servant
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effeminate
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soft, delicate to an unmanly degree in traits, tastes, habits
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efficacy
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effectiveness; power or ability to produce a desired effect
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élan
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impetuous ardor; dash; enthusiastic vigor
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elegy
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elegaic expressing sorrow or lamentation
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ennui
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boredom; feeling of weariness and discontent
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epic
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a long narrative poem on a serious theme
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epigrammatic
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expressing a thought or observation in a short, concise, often witty way
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epitaph
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lines that commemoratethe dead at their burial place
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equinoctial
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pertaining to the equinox, occuring about the time of an equinox
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euphemism
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a word or phrase that takes the place of a harsh, unpleasant, or impolite reality
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euphony
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when sounds blen harmoniously
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epository
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serving to set forth, to explain
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farce
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extremely broad humor. in earlier times used to mean a play/ funny play
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feigned
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pretended, counterfeited
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feminine rhyme
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lines rhymed by their final two syllables
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flippant
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frivolously shallow, disrespectful, characterized by levity
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