Sat Vocab List 3

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Belligerent

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adj. Inclined or eager to fight; hostile or aggresive. or or pertaining to engaging in warfare

noun. one that is hostile or aggresice, especially one that is engaged in war

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Contemporary

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adj. being to the same period of time;

of the same age; current

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Emanciated

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adj. to make or become extremly thin, especially as a result of starvation

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Gritty

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adj. showing resolution and fortitude, plucky

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Jaunt

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noun. a short trip or excursion, usually for pleasure ; an outing

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Protean

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taking many forms, versitile, named after Proteus, a god of the sea, chardged with tending the flocks of the sea creatures belonging to Posiden. He had the ability to change himself into whatever form he wanted, using the power particularly when he wanted to elude someone asking him questions

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Pygmalion

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someone( usually male) who tries to fashion someone in the person he desires; from a myth adopted into a play by George Shaw; a woman-hating sculptor who makes a female figure of ivory of Aphrodite

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Phyrrhic victory

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adj. a too costly victory; from king Pyrrhus, a greek king who defeated the romans in 279 B.C. but suffered extemly heavy losses in the fight

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Antihero

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central character who lacks qualities tradiotnally associated with heros. May lack courage, grace, intellegnce, or moral scruples

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Anthropomorphism

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attributing human characteristics to an animal or inanimate object (personification)

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Diction

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a speaker or writer's choice of words

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Didactic

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form or fiction or non-fiction that teaches a specific lesson or moral or provides model or correct behavior or thinking

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Sojourn

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noun. a temporary stay; a visiting stopover; a vacation

verb. to stay somewhere temporarily

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Expound

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verb. to presnt and explain ( a theory of idea) systematically and detail; propose; to put forward

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Sagracious

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having or showig keen material discnerment and good judgement; shrewed

intelligent; pudent; sage; insightful

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Lurid

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adj. very vivid in colour, especially so as to create an unpleasently harsh or unatural effect; arid, bright; dazzling

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saturnine

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sluggish, gloomy, inactive winter months; names after the god Saturn, often associated with the god of the underworld

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sibyl

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a witch or sorceress; a priestess who made known the oracles of Apollo and pocessessed thegift of prophesy

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sisphean

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greedy and avarious; from the shrewd and greedy king of Corinth, Sisphus, who was doomed forever in Hades to roll uphill a heavy stone, which always rolled down again

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Elegy

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a poem or morning, usually about someone who has died

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Eulogy

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praise or commendation, a laudatory speech about someone who has died

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Esigraph

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a quotation or aphorism at the beginning of a literary work suggestive of a theme

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alleviate

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adj. to make easier to endure, lessen; mitigate

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amiable

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adj. having or showing pleasant, good-natured personal qualities; friendly; sociable; an avaible greeting; agreeable; willing to accept to wishes, decisions, or suggestions or another or others

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asylum

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noun. an institution for maintenance and care of the mentally ill, orphans, and other persons requiring specialized assistance

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Brittle

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adj. having hardness and vilidity but tensile strength, breaking readilt with a comparatively smooth fracture, as glass; easily damaged

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capricious

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adj. subject to, led by, or indicative of whim; erratic

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terpischoreon

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pertaining to dance; for Terpisichore, one of the nine muses, sometimes said to be the mother of the sirens and protector of dance

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vulccunize

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to treat with sulfur, to increase strength and elasticity; from the Roman God of metallurgy, Vulcan/ Hephaestus

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Titanie

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large, grand, enormis; after Tityus, a giant, son of Zeus and Elera. His body covers 2 acres. or after the Titans; the offspring of Chronus and Rhoa, who went to war against Zeus

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FOIL

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a character who acts as contrast to another character. Often a funny side kick to the dashing hero, or a villian contrasting the hero

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Free Verse

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poety that does not conform to the regular meter or rhyme scheme

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Hyperbole

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a figure or speech that uses incredible exaggeration or understatetment for effectivness