vocab quiz 3

Admonish: To warn or reprimand someone firmly.

Akimbo: With hands on the hips and elbows turned outward.

Ascetic: Characterized by severe self-discipline and abstention from indulgence.

Crass: Lacking sensitivity, refinement, or intelligence; vulgar.

Dint: An impression or mark made by pressure.

Enjoin: To instruct or urge someone to do something.

Envoy: A messenger or representative, especially in diplomatic relations.

Interloper: A person who intrudes into a place or situation where they are unwelcome.

Lassitude: A state of physical or mental weariness; lack of energy.

Licentious: Lacking legal or moral restraints; disregarding accepted rules.

Muse: To think deeply or meditate; also a guiding spirit.

Pecuniary: Relating to or consisting of money.

Plight: A dangerous, difficult, or otherwise unfortunate situation.

Subversive: Seeking to undermine an established system or institution.

Vacuous: Having or showing a lack of thought or intelligence; mindless.

Academic (style): Relating to education, scholarship, or institutions of learning.

Aesthetic: Concerned with beauty or the appreciation of beauty.

Alliteration: The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

Antihero: A protagonist who lacks conventional heroic attributes.

Bombast: High-sounding language with little meaning, used to impress people.

Cadence: A modulation or inflection of the voice; rhythmic flow of a sequence of sounds.

Chorus: A group of singers or the refrain of a song.

Dirge: A lament for the dead, often performed at funerals.

Dramatic Irony: When the audience knows something that the characters do not.

Euphemism: A mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh.

Interior Monologue: A narrative technique that reveals a character's inner thoughts.

Lampoon: ridicule with satire.

Nemesis: the protagonist's arch enemy or supreme and persistent difficulty.

Objectivity: The quality of being objective, impartial, and unbiased.