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General Use Words
aesthetic, coalesce, behemoth, troglodyte, precocious, didactic, combative, plumule, crux, pelagic, wanton, tern, stave, wrest, circumscribe, precipitous, paucity, delegation, dubious, brusque, enigmatic, undercut
Rhetorical and Literary Terms
antecedent, syllogism, ad hominem, syntax, elegiac, deductive, colloquial, apostrophe
Apostrophe: a call/a statement to a person or thing that will not respond, i.e. a person who is dead or absent, an inanimate object, a god, or an idea; Death
ReplyDeleteGrammar: the punctuation mark used to show where letters are left out of a word (slang, diction) or in a contraction (aren't, wouldn't), and to mark possession (My teacher's dog, Charles' cat)
DeletePrecocious (adj.): Having developed certain abilities at an earlier age than usual, or indicative of such development.
ReplyDeleteDelegation (noun): A meeting, a group of delegates or representatives.
ReplyDeleteDidactic: adjective
ReplyDelete1. intended for instruction; instructive
2. inclined to teach or lecture others too much
3. teaching or intending to teach a moral lesson
troglodyte: noun
ReplyDelete1. a prehistoric cave-dwelller
2. a person of primitive or brutal character
3. a person who lives in seclusion
4. a person who is not familiar with the ways of the world
5. an animal that lives underground
Brusque: adjective
ReplyDeleteabrupt or offhand in speech or manner
Plumule (noun):
ReplyDelete1. a bud, still in the embryo, connected at the core of a plant stem
2. A down feather (in young birds)
Crux: noun
ReplyDelete1. A puzzling or difficult problem (an unsolved question)
2. An essential point requiring resolution or resolving an outcome
3. A main or central feature (as of an argument)
Aesthetic
ReplyDelete(adj.)
-Concerned with beauty or the appreciation of beauty.
(noun)
-A set of principles underlying and guiding the work of a particular artist or artistic movement.
Combative (Adj.)
ReplyDelete1. Ready or eager to fight, argue, or quarrel
2. Having the appearance of a willing fighter
Wrest
ReplyDelete(Verb)
1. It is to twist, turn, pull, jerk, or to take something away by violent force.
2. to get by effort
(Noun)
1. Twisting, a wrestling, or wrenching.
2. As in wrenching or tuning stringed musical instruments like a harp or piano in order to fasten its strings with a key or small wrench.
Tern (noun)
ReplyDelete1. a set of three
2. a type of aquatic bird related to the gulls
Antecedent:
ReplyDeleteAdjective: To come before in time; prior
Noun:
1.A preceding event
2.In a word or phrase, usually a substantive that is replaced by a pronoun or other substitute later in that sentence.
Ad hominen
ReplyDelete- (Adj)
1. appealing to feelings or prejudices rather than intellect
2. marked by or being an attack on an opponent's character rather than by an answer to the contentions made
- (Adverb)
1. directed against a person rather than against his arguments
2. based on or appealing to pathos rather than ethos
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ReplyDeleteElegiac: adj. having a mournful quality
DeleteUndercut:
ReplyDelete(Verb)
1. To offer goods or services at a lower price or rate, compared to the competitor
2. To weaken or destroy the impact or effectiveness
3. To cut or wear away the part below or under
(Noun)
1. A cut or cutting away underneath
Paucity
ReplyDeleteNoun
1-smallness of quantity
2-smallness or insufficiency of number
Ivy Gillette
ReplyDeleteCircumscribe (verb)- Latin origin;
1. to draw a line around; encircle: to circumscribe a city on a map.
2. to enclose within bounds; limit or confine, especially narrowly: "Her social activities are circumscribed by school regulations."
3. to mark off; define; delimit: to circumscribe the area of a science.
4. Geometry:
a. to draw (a figure) around another figure so as to touch as many points as possible.
b. (of a figure) to enclose (another figure) in this manner.
Synonyms: limit, restrict, hinder, restrain, confine
Sydney Iwohn
ReplyDeleteDubious
adjective
1.
doubtful; marked by or occasioning doubt: a dubious reply.
2.
of doubtful quality or propriety; questionable: a dubious compliment; a dubious transaction.
3.
of uncertain outcome: in dubious battle.
4.
wavering or hesitating in opinion; inclined to doubt.
Precipitous (adj.)
ReplyDelete1.really steep and tall. like a mountain cliff
2.sudden. like a precipitous fall on a graph
3.hasty. (arcane ((cuz I've never seen it before and therefore we need no example sentence)))
Bethany Gray
ReplyDeleteWanton (Adj.): [of a cruel or violent action] Deliberate and unprovoked
HannahEllis
ReplyDeleteCoalesce (verb)
Used without object:
To grow or unite into one.Blending together.
Used with object:
To cause the unification to occur.
Michael Jaksland
ReplyDeleteEnigmatic:
- Adjective
1. Resembling an enigma; perplexing; mysterious.
James King
ReplyDeleteAdj.
1. Having to do with the open open sea.
2. Living on the surface of the sea.
Pelagic
DeleteColloquial
ReplyDeleteadjective
1. informal or conversational idiom or vocabulary; familiar rather than formal
2. having to do with conversation
James King's word is PELAGIC.
ReplyDeleteAdj.
1. Having to do with the open open sea.
2. Living on the surface of the sea.
Syntax
ReplyDeleteNoun
1. Syntax is the arrangement of words which form a sentence. It incorporates grammar of phrases, clauses, and sentences.
2. Syntax is a study of language which focuses on the different way which words are put together to form sentences.
(Note) Syntax can also focus on patterns of the arrangements and functions of a word, phrase, clause or sentence.
The origin of Syntax is said to be either from middle French or late Latin.
Middle French: Sintaxe
Late Latin: Syntaxis
Emily M.
Syllogism
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1. Logic A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion; for example, All humans are mortal, the major premise, I am a human, the minor premise, therefore, I am mortal, the conclusion.
Kevin R.
Behemoth
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1. an animal, perhaps the hippopotamus, mentioned in Job 40: 15-24
2. any creature or thing of monstrous size or power
Corinne D.
More on "elegiac" (as pertains to tone)
ReplyDeleteelegiac
Adjective
(esp. of a work of art) Having a mournful quality.
sad - mournful - sorrowful - lugubrious - dismal - woeful