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20 Cards in this Set
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defray |
to bear or pay all or part of the costs, expenses, etc |
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dint |
force, power (By dint of hard work she became . . .) |
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avocation |
something a person does in addition to a principal occupation, esp. for pleasure; hobby. |
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retinue |
a body of retainers in attendance upon an important personage; suite |
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affront |
a personally offensive act or word; deliberate act or display of disrespect |
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blase` |
indifferent to or bored with life; unimpressed, as or as if an excess of worldly pleasures |
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adulaton |
excessive admiration or devotion to |
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voluble |
characterized by a ready and continuous flow of words; fluent; glib; talkative |
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cognizant |
aware; noticed; perceived |
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collusion |
a secret agreement, esp. for fraudulent or treacherous purposes; conspiracy |
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oxymoron |
a concise paradox where two contradictory ideas are combined in a single word/phrase |
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paradox |
A statement that seems contradictory but is actually true. |
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paragraph |
A group of sentences that can develop one idea |
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paralellism |
Recurrent syntactical similarity- several parts of a sentence or several sentences are expressed alike to have equal importance/ balance, rhythm, clarity to the sentence. |
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paraphrase |
Summarizing an idea in your own words |
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parody |
a humorous imitation of a particular style of writing with unusual content or ideas not typically expressed in that style |
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pathos |
Audience’s anticipated emotional reaction |
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persona |
the projected identity of the speaker in a literary text or essay. |
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personal/reflective writing |
writing written to examine and reflect on your own observation, feelings, and opinions |
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personification |
Treating an abstraction or nonhuman object as if it were a person by giving it human qualities |
