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| laudatory |
adj. relating to praise, full of praise |
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| hoi polloi |
n. the majority, the masses, the common people, usually derogatory |
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| gormandize |
v. to gorge in an unseemly manner |
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| esthesia |
n. mental responsiveness and awareness |
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| misanthropic |
adj. disliking or distrusting humans |
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| dyspeptic |
adj. gloomy, pessimistic, and irritable or indigestible |
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| nominal |
adj. eihter a small amount or pertaining to a noun or to a word group that functions as a noun |
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| elegy |
n. a mournful poem; a lament for the dead |
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| senescence |
n. Decline or degeneration, as with maturation, age, or disease stress |
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| synaesthesia |
n. the use of one sense to describe another (the sky smelled blue) |
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| hagiography |
n. the study of saints or idealized biography, usually of a saint |
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| contumacy |
n. obstinate rebelliousness and insubordination; resistance to authority or court orders |
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| chiasmus |
n. The inversion of parallel phrases in poetic syntax, as in “He went to the city, to the country went she" |
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| liminality |
adj. ambiguity or fuzziness of a state or physical boundary |
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| idiom |
n. a common expression that has acquired a meaning that differs from its literal meaning |
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| polysyndeton |
n. use of many conjunctions for emphasis or pacing |
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| parataxis |
n. literary technique of putting short clauses next to one another instead of using conjunctions. |
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| complaisance |
n. amiability, agreeability |
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| adventitious |
adj. unusual or unexpected |
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| adumbrate |
v. To foreshadow vaguely; To give a vague outline; To obscure or overshadow |
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