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Ameliorate |
Make (something bad or unsatisfactory) better |
Is there anything I can do to ameliorate your imprisonment? |
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Conserve |
Protect (something, especially an environmentally or culturally important place or thing) from harm or destruction. |
With so little rain, everyone had to conserve water. |
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Detriment |
The state of being harmed or damaged |
For the theoretical side he read all the text-books which he could find, somewhat to the detriment of his ordinary school studies. |
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Exotic |
Of a kind not used for ordinary purposes or not ordinarily encountered |
There was nothing exotic about it; just a cluttered mess. |
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Folly |
Lack of good sense; foolishness. |
I saw the folly of my forefathers in the histories. |
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Allegory |
A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one |
It is an allegory of life itself so he needs to stick it out. |
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Alliteration |
The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words |
She sells seashells by the sea-shore is an alliteration. |
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Allusion |
An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference |
In every word and gesture he saw allusions to his happiness. |
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Anapestic meter |
Anapestic tetrameter is a poetic meter that has four anapestic metrical feet per line. Each foot has two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable. It is sometimes referred to as a "reverse dactyl", and shares the rapid, driving pace of the dactyl |
Get a life. |
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Anaphora |
A rhetorical term for when a writer or speaker repeats the same beginning of a sentence several times |
I am awake. I am strong. I am ready. |
