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20 Cards in this Set
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Egregious |
Conspicuously bad |
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Flagrant |
Noticeable |
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Frenetic |
Wildly excited |
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Gratuitous |
Unearned |
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Superfluous |
Extra |
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Alleviate |
To ease a pain |
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Asylum |
A place of retreat |
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Auspicious |
Favorible |
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Benevolent |
Generous |
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Benign |
Kind and gentle |
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Ad hominem |
To attack the person rather than the opponents idea |
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Alleteration |
Repeating of initial constant sounds |
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Colloquial |
The use of slang in writing |
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Ellipsis |
A series of 3 periods at an end of a line |
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Euphamism |
More acceptable |
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Hyperbole |
Extreame exaggeration |
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Metonymy |
Representitive term for a larger idea |
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Onomatopoeia |
Words that sound like the sound the represent |
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Asyndenton |
Omitting conjunctions between words, phrases or clauses |
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Polysyndeton |
Using more conjunctions than are gramatically necessary |
