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36 Cards in this Set
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Wordmasters Meet 3 Definitions
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Rajiv Samagond
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knell
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the sound made by a bell rung slowly, especially for a death or a funeral
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bough
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a branch of a tree, especially one of the larger or main branches
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pretense
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a false show of something
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bruit
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to voice abroad; rumor (used chiefly in the passive and often followed by about)
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sapless
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lacking vitality or spirit; insipid
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pram
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a flat-bottomed, snub-nosed boat used as a fishing vessel or tender for larger
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transaction
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something that is transacted, especially a business agreement
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forbear
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to refrain or abstain from; desist from
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dynastic
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a sequence of rulers from the same family, stock, or group
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shorn
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to cut (something)
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stanch
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to stop the flow of (a liquid, especially blood)
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beweep
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to weep over (something)
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lineament
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distinguishing features; distinctive characteristics
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first fruits
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the first product or result of anything
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elegy
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a sad or mournful musical composition
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stanza
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a division of a poem
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terse
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abruptly concise; curt
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prosody
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the science or study of poetic meters and versification
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feminine rhyme
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a rhyme in words that are less than 3 syllables, in which only the first syllable is stressed
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metrical
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pertaining to meter or poetic measure
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listless
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having or showing little or no interest in anything; languid; spiritless; indifferent
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metaphorical
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a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance
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alliteration
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the commencement of two or more words of a word group with the same letter
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brevity
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shortness of time or duration; briefness
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detached
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separated; not involved; impartial
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enjambment
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the running on of the thought from one line, couplet, or stanza to the next without a syntactical break
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diction
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style of speaking or writing as dependent upon choice of words
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vigor
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active strength or force
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grandiloquent
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speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic
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hyperbole
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obvious and intentional exaggeration
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maudlin
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tearfully or weakly emotional; foolishly sentimental
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trochaic meter
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Trochaic is a meter beginning with stress, followed by unstressed
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internal rhyme
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a rhyme created by two or more words in the same line of verse
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assonance
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resemblance of sounds
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kinship
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the state or fact of being of kin; family relationship
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