Vocab For Midterm Final

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able to get and retain idead or information; concerned with acquiring wealth or property

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acquisitive

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to claim or take without right

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arrogate

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hackneyed, trite, commonplace

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banal

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to work on excessively; to thrash soundly

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belabor

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tending to find fault, especially in a petty, nasty, or hairsplitting way

petty nagging criticism

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carping

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holding or sticking together; making a logical whole; comprehensible, meaningful

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coherent

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to change from liquid to solid; thicken; to make inflexible or rigid

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congeal

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to imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model

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emulate

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a formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute

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encomium

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to avoid, shun, keep away from

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eschew

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relevent, appropriate, apropos, fitting

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germane

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so great or demanding as not to be satisfied

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insatiable

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refusing to compromise, irreconcilable

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intransigent

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offensive, hateful; tending to cause bitterness and resentment

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invidious

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generosity in giving; lavish or bountiful contributions

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largesse

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a survey made for military purposes; any kind of preliminary inspection or examination

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reconnaissance

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to establish bu evidence, prove; to give concrete or substantial form to

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substantiate

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habitually slient or quite, inclined to talk very little

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taciturn

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to stall or act in order to gain time, avoid a confrontation, or postpone a decision; to compromise

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temporize

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capable of being held or defended

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tenable

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to approach and speak to first; to confront in a challenging or aggressive way

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accost

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a comment indicating strong criticism or disapproval

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animadversion

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desirous of something to the point of greed; intensly eager

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avid

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having a salty taste and unpleasant to drink

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brackish

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swiftness, rapidity of motion or action

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celerity

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straying or wandering from a straight or direct course; done or acting in a shifting or underhanding way

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devious

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in chess, an opening move that involves risk or sacrifice of a minor piece in order to gain a later advantage; any opening move of this type

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gambit

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a legendary bird identified with the kingfisher

of or related to the halcyon; calm, peacful; happy, golden; prosperous, affluent

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halcyon

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pertaining to actors and their techniques; theatrical, artificial; melodramatic

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histrionic

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deliberately setting or causing fires; designed to start fires; tending to stir up strife or rebellion

one who deliberately sets fire, arsonist; one who causes strife

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incendiary

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a whirpool of great sive and violence; a situation resembling a whirpool in violence and destruction

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maelstrom

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nearsighted; lacking a broad, realistic view of a situation; lacking foresight or discernment

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myopic

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open, not hidden, expressed or revealed in a way that is easily recognized

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overt

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tending to make worse; expressing disapproval or disparagement, deragatory, deprecatory, belittling

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pejorative

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improper or disrespectful treatment of something held sacred

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sacrilege

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without delay or formality; briefly, concisely

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summarily

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asking humbly and earnestly

one who makes a request humbly and earnestly, a petitioner, suitor

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suppliant

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an object that serves as a charm or is believed to confer magical powers, an amulet, fetish

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talisman

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to move in waves or with a wavelike motion; to have a wavelike appearance or form

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undulate

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the state of being proper, appropriateness

standards of what is proper or socially acceptable

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propriety

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repeating words or phrases
emphasis and to rememeber lines

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repetition

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an object that represents something else

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symbolism

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the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words or within words

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alliteration

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the representation of inanimate objects as human beings by giving them human quialities

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personification

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an implied comparison beteween 2 different things without using as or like

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metaphor

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a comparison between 2 things using like or as

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simile

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in the middle of things

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in medias res

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excessive pride

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hubris

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fate or destiny chosen by the will of the gods

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moira

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an adjective or descriptive term that points out some trait of the person or thing that is described

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epithet

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a narrative poem, told in an elavated style, in which it tells the achievments or brave deeds of heroic characters, miraculous events, and supernatural beings, setting are in large scopes

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epic

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a significant hero
larger than life character
favored by the gods
participates in quests and journeys
faces difficulties that try to defeat the character
returns home transformed b the journey
performs superhero acts

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epic hero

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(poleis)
greek city-state
all independent
*athens and sparta

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polis

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the food of the gods thought to give immortality
delicious to taste and smell
oranges and shredded coconut

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ambrosia

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in tragedies, the rhythm if the dialogue which is in one line exchanges

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stichomythia

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blood guilt

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miasma