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| one having power to decide, judge |
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| charm, something worn as a magic charm |
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| The repetition of similar sounds, usually constants, in a group of words |
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| refusal toindulge in certain pleasures |
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| a person of force opposing the protagonist in a drama or narration |
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| damaging remarks, slandor |
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| assign (to a cause or a source),attribute |
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| emphasize, place stress on |
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| releating to accent times |
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| grow or accumulate in the course of time; as a natural result |
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| encourage (especially in something wrong) |
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| declare (a person) free from sin or blame |
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| that which surrounds as an atmosphere |
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| a person's account for his or her own life |
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| essential quality;regard as a part of |
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| extremely strange, unusual |
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| filled with excessively high- sounding words |
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| scene of uproar and confussion |
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| a detailed account of a person's life written by another person |
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| support, strengthen; supporting structure |
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| toss to and fro, exchange; discuss |
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| noisy; obtrusive; conspicuous |
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| dismay, paralyzing terror |
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| side by side; touching, near |
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| a struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story, novel, or narrative poem |
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| continual loud, harsh sound |
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| conversation, talking together |
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| illegal traffic, smuggled goods |
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| picture exaggeration peculiarities |
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| the decisive point in a narrative or drama; the point of greatest intensity or intrest |
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| prepare; make up (as a dish) |
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| in general, a literary work that ends happily |
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| fortress, especially one in a city |
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| sympathize with; have pity or sorrow for |
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| raging and destructive fire |
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| demand insistently payment of a debt |
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| quarreling, disputing, difference of opinion |
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| impartial, calm, free from emotion |
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| mar, spoil the appearance of |
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| rambling off the point, digressing |
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| orderr or settle by authority, authoritative order or decision |
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| confuse, disturb the composure of |
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| disregard the sacredness of |
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| discharge through pores, emit, ooze |
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make a fault or offene seem less important
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| effective, producing results |
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| make easy, cause to progress faster |
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| weariness and discontent from lack of occupation or intrest; boredom |
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| pertaining to finicial matters |
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| highly colored; ruddy; showy |
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| steal in small quantities |
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| weakness,physical or moral infirmity |
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| a scene in a short story, novel, narrative poem, or a play that interrupts the action to show an event that happened earlier |
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| literary work that is real |
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| the use of hints in a narrative to suggest word action is to come |
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| presiding offer's hammer or mallet |
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| thin, light; very light cloth |
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| gap, opening, break with a missing part |
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| stay near (one place); remain suspended |
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| hint; indirect suggestion |
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| abusive speech, sharp condemnation |
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| inattentive, heedless, unintentional |
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| charge with a crime or fault, involve in a criminal act |
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| a contrast or and incongruity between what is stated and what is ment, or between what is expected to happen and what really happens |
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| breaking of law or obligation |
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| bring (oneself) into favor |
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| make a violent verbal attack |
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| check, prevent growtrh or expession of |
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| showing no feeling or emotion |
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| plead for another, act between parties |
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| teach by repetition, impress |
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| find out by reasoning, conclude on the basis of knowledge or impressions |
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| incapable of being understood |
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| incapable or being changed, unalterable |
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| weariness of body or mind,lack of energy |
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| person who moves slowly or falls behind |
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| the use of specific details describing the dialect, dress, customs, and scenery associated with a particular region or section of the country |
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| deprive of something as punishment or through trickery |
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| a figure of speech that makes a comparrison between two things which are basically dissimilar |
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| misunderstand, take in wrong sense |
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| literaty work that is real |
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| exsiting in name only, not real, too small to be considered |
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| not committing oneself, unwilling to say yes or no |
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| the use of a word whose sound in some degree immitates or suggest its meaning |
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| preying upon others, inclined to plundering to robbery |
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| natural inclination bent, leaning of the mind toward |
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| model of excellence or perfection |
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| feathers, feathery covering |
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| delay; put off until later |
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| talk a great deal in a foollish way |
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| narrow, limited, pertaining to a province |
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| special right or privilage |
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| prudant, shrewdly contrived |
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| tending to arouse attention; irritating |
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| the vantage point form which a narrative is told |
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| extremely hurtful, deadly, fatal |
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| the central character of a drama, novel, short story, or narrative poem |
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| the squence of events or actions in a short story, novel, play, or narrative poem |
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| a figure of speech in which something nonhiman is given human qualties |
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| superior, outstanding, prominent |
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| peevish, irritable over trifles |
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| rule of action or conduct |
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| dull or sommonplace remark, dullness |
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| foretell, predict on the basis of facts |
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| spread through, penetrate, soak through |
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| poter; notice posted in a public area |
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| state in other words; meaning stated in other words |
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| review, sum up in an orderly way |
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| revive; bring bavk to consciousness |
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| disown, refuse to accept or pay |
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| able to return to an original shape |
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| pardon, send (as money), slacken, lesson |
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| act of making good a loss of damage |
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| the attempt in literature and art to reprtesent life as it really is, without sentmentalizing or idealizing it |
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| a movement that flourished in literature, philosophy, music, and are in western culture, beginning as a revolt against classicism |
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| extremely easy job, position requiring little or no work |
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| any object, person, place, or action that has a meaning in itself and that stands for something larger than itself, such as a quality, an attitude, a belief, or a value |
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| a unit of a poem that is longer than a single line |
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| the time and place in which events in a short story, novel, play, or narrative poem occurs |
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| excess, as in eating or drinking |
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| fight between small forces; any brisk encounter; engage in such a fight |
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| somethiing which is assumed |
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| beneficial, helpful, healthy |
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| of the tomb, funeral, profoundly gloomy |
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| expressed briefly and clearly |
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| bitterly severe, withering |
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| easily shocked or upset, fastidious |
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| whip, punish severely; punishment |
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| strong and sturdy, brave, resoolute |
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| deceptive, plausible but without merit |
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| make a pretense at, imitate |
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| of or pertaining to a tailor or his work |
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| easily influenced, non resistant |
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| resistant to lawful authority |
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| a kind of writing that hold up to ridicule or contempt the weaknesses and wrongdoing of individuals, groups, instituions, or himanity in general |
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