English Vocab 7
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Rap(t) / rept -
to seize
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sup/sub
under
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com -
with
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plic / ply -
to fold
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ped(e) -
foot
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du(o) -
two
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ex-
out/from
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im -
not
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re -
again
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ap(d) -
from
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prehend(ere) -
to grasp
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Rapacious (adj)
Aggressively greedy or grasping
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Rapt (adj)
\- Completely fascinated by what one is seeing or hearing
\- Having been carried away bodily or transported to heaven
\- Having been carried away bodily or transported to heaven
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Surreptitious (adj)
Kept secret, especially because it would not be approved of
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Complicity (n)
The state of being involved with others in an illegal activity or wrongdoing
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Duplicity (n)
\- Deceitfulness
\- Doubleness
\- Doubleness
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Explicate (v)
\- Analyze and develop in detail
\- Analyze in order to reveal it’s meaning
\- Analyze in order to reveal it’s meaning
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Imply (v)
\- Strongly suggest the truth or existence of something
\- Suggests something as a logical consequence
\- Suggests something as a logical consequence
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Supplicate (v)
Ask or beg for something earnestly or humbly
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Apprehend (v)
\- Arrest someone for a crime
\- Understand or perceive
\- Understand or perceive
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Reprehend (v)
Reprimand
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Expedient (adj/n)
\- Convenient and practical although possibly improper or immoral
\- A means of attaining an end, especially one that is convenient but considered improper or immortal
\- A means of attaining an end, especially one that is convenient but considered improper or immortal
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Expedite (v)
Make (an action or process) happen sooner or be accomplished more quickly
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Impede (v)
Delay or prevent (someone or something) by obstructing them; hinder
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Impediment (n)
\- A hindrance or obstruction in doing something.
\- A defect in a person's speech, such as a lisp or stammer.
\- A defect in a person's speech, such as a lisp or stammer.
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Blank Verse
A verse without rhyme
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Soliloquy
The act of speaking one’s thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers
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Iambic pentameter
A rhythm structure, used most commonly in poetry, that combines unstressed syllables and stressed syllables in groups of five
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Prose
A type of written or spoken language that is ordinary
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Aside
The act of one speaking directly to the audience without any other characters hearing it
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