Word Hoard List 2

Amorphous

shapeless, formless, vaugue; of no particular kind of character

antithesis

a direct opposite; an opposite extreme; a contrast

apostrophe

a literary device in which the speaker addresses an absent person of personified object

chagrin

humiliation, embarrassment, mortification; a complete loss of courage

elegy

a mournful poem, often a lament for the dead

enervate

to weaken; to feprive of force or strength; destroy the vigor of

garner

1. to collect, gather

2. to receive, earn

metonymy

1. a figure of speech in which a word is substituted for a closely related word

2. a figure of speech in which a concept is referred to by the name of something closely associated with that thing or concept.

paradox

a self-contradictory statement of argument

saturnine

gloomy, melancholy; sullen; taciturn

synecdoche

use of a part of something to refer to the whole

rood

1. the Cross on which Christ was crucified

2. a crucifix, especially a large one