Untitled Flashcards Set

vocab 3rd

Afoot

Developing or in the process of happening.

Assail

Violently assault.

Auspicious

Favorable.

Avouch

Affirmation.

Baseness

The quality of lacking higher values.

Beshrew

Curse.

Besmirch

Soil; tarnish.

Bestial

Brutal without reason; having the attributes of a savage.

Blastments

Injury by a destructive cause.

Brazen

Shameless; insolent; disrespectful.

Cautel

Deceit; falseness.

Calumnious

Slanderous; defamatory.

Clemency

Leniency.

Consonancy

Agreement or harmony.

Cote

Surpass.

Dexterity

Skillful and active.

Discord

A lack of agreement; strife; tension.

Dole

Sorrow.

Enmity

A feeling or condition of hostility; hatred; ill will.

Entreaty

A plea; an earnest request.

Equivocation

Ambiguousness; deliberate evasiveness in wording.

Fardels

Burdens.

Felicity

Happiness or delight.

Fie

An interjection used to express disgust or disapproval.

Forbear

Refrain.

Galled

Annoyed; irritated.

Gratis

Free.

Harbinger

Foreshadows a future event; an omen.

Hies

Goes quickly; hastens.

Homage

A reverential regard; respect shown by external action.

Importing

Indicating or signifying.

Incorporeal

Having no material or tangible form.

Ingenious

Cleverness; inventiveness; resourcefulness.

Interred

Deposited a dead body into a grave.

Jocund

Cheerful; merry; blithe.

Martial

Of, related to, or suggesting war.

Mote

Speck.

Mutine

Rebel (like mutiny).

Obstinate

Unyielding regardless of reason or logic.

Ostentation

Excessive display.

Palpable

Tangible; perceptible; easily noticeable.

Parch

To become dry from heat; to shrivel from heat.

Parle

Talk.

Partisan

A sword.

Peruse

To read or examine.

Plausive

Manifesting praise or approval.

Ponderous

Very heavy; unwieldy from weight.

Portentous

Ominously significant.

Prate

To talk idly and foolishly at a great length.

Precepts

Directives; rules.

Prodigal

Giving or yielding profusely.

Quaintly

In an unusual or old-fashioned manner.

Quicksilver

The liquid metal mercury.

Ratify

To give formal approval.

Relish

To take great pleasure and delight in.

Requite

To make repayment or to return.

Retrograde

Reverting to an earlier or inferior condition.

Rouse

To awaken; to become active.

Sanctify

To set apart for sacred use; to make holy; to purify.

Scant

Barely sufficient.

Scruple

Feeling of doubt regarding morality.

Sepulcher

Tomb cut into rock.

Sovereign

Possessed of controlling power.

Spurn

To reject or to refuse with hostility.

Tenable

Capable of being maintained in argument; rationally defensible.

Thews

Muscles.

Usurp

Seize by force.

Allegory

A story with a moral or political meaning; achieved through symbols or extended metaphor.

Aside

In a play, a character’s comment that is directed to the audience or another character, but is not heard by any other characters on the stage.

Ballad

A simple narrative poem of folk origin, composed in short stanzas and adapted for singing.

Couplet

A two-line stanza, or the same rhyme pattern in two conjoined lines.

Dramatic Monologue

A poem that dramatizes someone’s thoughts and actions; the persona talks directly to the reader.

Dramatic Irony

When the audience or reader knows something that the characters do not know.

Foil

A minor character whose attitude, beliefs, and behavior differ significantly from those of a main character.

In Media Res

Beginning in the middle of things.

Lyric Poetry

Having the form and musical quality of a song; a songlike outpouring of the poet's thoughts and feelings.

Octave (or Octet)

A stanza of eight lines.

Ode

A poem that commemorates or celebrates; written for an occasion.

Paradox

Seemingly contradictory statement that, upon reflection, reveals a truth.

Quatrain

A stanza of four lines, usually with alternate rhymes.

Refrain

A repeating line/verse in a song or a poem.

Sestet

A six-line stanza.

Situational Irony

When the outcome of a situation is the opposite of what was expected.

Soliloquy

A dramatic device in which a character reveals his or her private thoughts and feelings as if thinking aloud.

Sonnet

Any 14 line poem, may be Shakespearean, Italian or Spenserian based on rhyme scheme.

Syllogism

Form of deductive reasoning in which related and dependent premises lead to a conclusion.

Tercet

A group of three lines rhyming together or connected by rhyme with the adjacent group or groups.

Verbal Irony

When a person says one thing while meaning another.

Villanelle

A 19 line form using only two rhymes and repeating two of the lines according to a set pattern.

Volta

The turn (shift) of thought or argument.

Apathetic

Showing or feeling no interest, enthusiasm, or concern.

Brash

Self-assertive in a rude, noisy, or overbearing way.

Droll

Curious or unusual in a way that provokes dry amusement.

Earnest

Resulting from or showing sincere and intense conviction.

Grave

Giving cause for alarm; serious.

Jovial

Cheerful and friendly.

Melancholy

A feeling of pensive sadness.

Ribald

Referring to sexual matters in an amusingly coarse or irreverent way.

Surly

Menacing or threatening in appearance.

Whimsical

Playfully quaint or fanciful, especially in an appealing and amusing way.