Vocb set 1- Ap lit

Litany

a prayer consisting of a series of invocations and supplications by the leader with alternate responses by the congregation

Ostentatious

attracting or seeking to attract attention, admiration, or envy often by gaudiness or unnecessary show : overly elaborate or conspicuous

Vehement

marked by forceful energy

Lament

to mourn aloud

Contentious

likely to cause disagreement or argument

Incongruous

lacking congruity

illicit

: not permitted : UNLAWFUL

Fervor

intensity of feeling or expression

crass

having or indicating such grossness of mind as precludes delicacy and discrimination

Piety

the quality or state of being pious

Bellicose

favoring or inclined to start quarrels or wars

Bellicose

favoring or inclined to start quarrels or wars (having or showing a tendency to argue or fight)

Discourse

verbal interchange of ideas (the use of words to exchange thoughts and ideas)

Vacillate

to waver in mind, will, or feeling : hesitate in choice of opinions or courses

Profound

having intellectual depth and insight

Superficial

of, relating to, or located near a surface

Idyllic

pleasing or picturesque in natural simplicity

Sublime

to cause to pass directly from the solid to the vapor state and condense back to solid form

Reprieve

to delay the punishment of (someone, such as a condemned prisoner)

Approbation

COMMENDATION, PRAISE

Alliteration

he repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, thrifty and thriving)

(the use of words that begin with the same sound near one another)

Assonance

repetition of vowels without repetition of consonants (as in stony and holy) used as an alternative to rhyme in verse

Consonance

harmony or agreement among components

Cacophany

A loud unpleasant, and confusing mix of hush sounds

Euphony

pleasing or sweet sound