Final Exam Vocab

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Aghast
horrified/shocked
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Idolize
To look up to
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Acquit
to declare innocent
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Indignant
angry at something unfair
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Menace
an annoyance/troublemaker
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Ornery
cranky/grumpy
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Stifle
to suppress or muffle
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Unfathomable
impossible to understand
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Besiege
to surround completely
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Gallant
noble and often sacrificing
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Resilience
­the ability to bounce back or recover
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Subside
to lessen in strength or intensity
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Absolve
to free from guilt
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Aversion
having a strong dislike for something
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Capricious
fickle, impulsive, and unpredictable
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Caustic
sarcastic and hurtful
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Concur
to agree
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Deferential
respectful
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Gait
manner of walking
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Interrogate
to question aggressively
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Naive
lacking wisdom and experience
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Inevitable
expected to happen
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Palpable
noticeable/obvious
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Prevail
to conquer, triumph and win
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Entice
to tempt/lure
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Idle
inactive/unproductive
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Jubilant
happy/overjoyed
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Chortle
­to laugh or chuckle
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Elated
extremely happy/jubilant
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Embellish
to make something more interesting by adding extra details especially fake ones
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Malice
the desire to cause pain, injury, or distress to another
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Uncanny
mysterious or strange in an unsettling way
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Persistence
not giving up when faced with a challenge
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hyperbole
an intentional exaggeration that deepens the meaning of what your saying
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personification
when you attribute human qualities to a non human subject
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metaphor
A direct comparison between two things whiteout using like or as
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simile
A direct comparison using like or as.
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onomatopoeia
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When you call something by the sound that it’s making
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alliteration
When two or more words that start with the same sound are used repeatedly
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oxymoron
concepts with opposite meaning create self contradiction
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allusion
A reference to something popular or well known
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imagery
Language that stimulates the readers senses