Final Exam Study 😰

English! Straight from the SG

Expedition

Journey for a specific purpose

Annihilate

Destroy completely

Paradox

Statement that seems impossible, but is true

Infinitesimal

Extremely small

Corrupt

To make morally dishonest

Translucent

Lets some light through

Luxuriate

Enjoy something rich or relaxing

Instinct

Natural feeling

Congealed

Turned from a liquid to a solid

Hospitality

Friendly treatment of guests

Facade

false/impressive building front

Dachshund

Long bodied dog

Compulsion

Strong urge

Emanante

Come out (Like a smell)

Congenial

Pleasant and friendly

Inn

Small countryside hotel

Ronin

Masterless samurai

Deceit

Lying or tricking

Bewildered

Confused

Vanished

Disappeared completely

Veldt

Grassland

Neuroses

Anxiety disorders

Appalled

Horrified

Instinctively

Automatically

Menacing

Threatening

Woe

Great sorrow or distress

Adversary

One’s opponent in a conflict, competition, or dispute

Fray

A part of a rope that has untangled due to constant rubbing

Augmenting

To increase something by adding to it

Transgression

An act that goes against the law, a rule, or proper conduct

Prodigious

Unnatural or abnormal/ Remarkably great

Hark

Listen

Banished

Kicked out

Pardon

Excuse me/letting someone free in the judicial sense

Dram

Another word for a small drink of an alcoholic beverage, usually whiskey.

Tragic Flaw

A flaw that usually leads to the characters’s downfall in tragedy’s

Soliloquy

A long speech to reveal a character’s inner thoughts. Spoken alone by a character onstage.

Monologue

A long speech

Aside

Short thoughts only meant for the audience to hear

Tragedy

A play where the main hero has a tragic ending, usually consisting of their death

The Globe Theater

The really famous theater in London where Shakespeare plays were usually played

Couplet

Two lines, usually in a poem, that usually rhyme

Iambic Pentameter

I’m not really sure, just watch out for 5, as penta means 5. Also a poem. That too

Dramatic Irony

When the audience knows something the characters do not

Foil Characters

Characters with two contrasting traits to really highlight the difference