Unit 2 vocab

Ameliorate

Ameliorate

Improve, correct flaw

Aplomb

Poise, assurance

Benediction

Blessing

Bombastic

Overblown in language

Callow

Without experience

Connote

To suggest or imply

Demure

Shy serious

Drivel

Foolish

Epitome

Summary

Exhort

To urge strongly or advise

Infringe

To violate

Ingratiate

To make oneself agreeable

Interloper

Intruder

Intrinsic

Inheritable, belonging to by natire

Inveigh

Violent attack in words

Lassitude

Lack of energy, weariness body of mind

Occult

Mysterious, supernatural

Permeate

Spread through, penetrate

Precipitate

To cause or bring about suddenly, give distinct form to

Stringent

Strict, servere, sharp and bitter in taste

Surmise

To think or believe without evidence

Aphorism

A brief statement of opinion or elemental truth

Apostrophe

Directly addresses abstract idea or imaginary person

Appositive

Modified noun next to it. Ex: the narrator

Argument from ignorance

Something is true because never proven wrong

Assonance

Repetition of same interval vowel sounds

Asyndeton

Omission of conjunctions to create a forceful sentence

Ex: all the orcas ate food, broke the dishes, trashed the hall.

Atmosphere

Emotional mood created

Bandwagon

Argument “everyone doing it”

Begging the question

Assumed the truth of conclusion rather than supporting it