Study English Vocab Quiz #e6 Flash Cards

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English Vocab Quiz #e6

laudatory

adj. relating to praise, full of praise

hoi polloi

n. the majority, the masses, the common people, usually derogatory

gormandize

v. to gorge in an unseemly manner

esthesia

n. mental responsiveness and awareness

misanthropic

adj. disliking or distrusting humans

dyspeptic

adj. gloomy, pessimistic, and irritable or indigestible

nominal

adj. eihter a small amount or pertaining to a noun or to a word group that functions as a noun

elegy

n. a mournful poem; a lament for the dead

senescence

n. Decline or degeneration, as with maturation, age, or disease stress

synaesthesia

n. the use of one sense to describe another (the sky smelled blue)

hagiography

n. the study of saints or idealized biography, usually of a saint

contumacy

n. obstinate rebelliousness and insubordination; resistance to authority or court orders

chiasmus

n. The inversion of parallel phrases in poetic syntax, as in “He went to the city, to the country went she"

liminality

adj. ambiguity or fuzziness of a state or physical boundary

idiom

n. a common expression that has acquired a meaning that differs from its literal meaning

polysyndeton

n. use of many conjunctions for emphasis or pacing

parataxis

n. literary technique of putting short clauses next to one another instead of using conjunctions.

complaisance

n. amiability, agreeability

adventitious

adj. unusual or unexpected

adumbrate

v. To foreshadow vaguely; To give a vague outline; To obscure or overshadow

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