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| In an argument, this is an attack on the person rather than on the opponent's ideas. It comes from the Latin meaning "against the man." |
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| The repitition of initial consonant sounds, such as "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers." |
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| A reference contained in a work |
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| A literary device employed to serve as a basis for comparison |
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| The word, phrase, or clause to which a pronoun refers. The AP English Language and Composition Exam often expects you to identify the antecedent in a passage |
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The presentation of two contrasting images. The Ideas are balanced by word, phrase, clause, or paragraphs.
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| A single assertion or a series of assertions presented and defended by the writer |
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| The relationship an author has toward his or her subject, and/or his or her audience |
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| A declaration or statement |
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| Clearness in thought or expression |
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| The ability to speak vividly or persuasively |
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| A judge who decides a disputed issue |
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| To free from guilt or blame |
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| Not in favor of one side or the other; unbiased |
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| Trustworthiness; completeness |
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| Treating facts without influence from personal feelings or prejudices |
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| Expressing remorse for one's misdeeds |
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| Seemingly valid or acceptible; credible |
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| Supported with proof or evidence; verified |
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| Treating people as weak or inferior |
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| Exercising absolute power; tyrannical |
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| Domineering; opressively overbearing |
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(N.)Contempt, scorn
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| Treating in a condescending manner |
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| Having no useful purpose; pointless |
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(adj.) relatively unkown
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| A state of uncertainty or perplexity |
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| Uninteresting; unchallenging |
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| Laziness; inactivity; dullness |
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| Removed or disassociated from (friends, family, or homeland) |
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| A union of two or more groups |
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| Inequality in age, rank, or degree; difference |
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| Submissive; like a servant |
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| Subdued; kept from being circulated |
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| To make beautiful by ornamenting; to decorate |
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| Describing flowery or elaborate speech |
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| Exhibiting a display of great wealth |
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| Emotionally unrestrained; gushy |
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| Conspicuously bad or offensive |
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| Extremely or deliberately shocking or noticeable |
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| Given freely; unearned; unwarranted |
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| The act of making something useful again |
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| To give official authorization or approval |
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| Doubtful; of unlikely authenticity |
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| made; concocted to deceive |
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| The practice of pretending to be something one is not; insincerity |
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| False charges and malicious oral statements about someone |
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| A brilliantly executed plan |
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| Not straightforward; crafty |
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| A clever trick used to deceive or outwit |
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| Open to more than one interpretation |
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| Simultaneously having opposing feelings; uncertain |
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| Feeling or showing little emotion |
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| Determined by impulse rather than reason |
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| Impulsive and unpredictable |
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| To avoid making a definite statement |
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| Not caring one way or the other |
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| Unplanned; naturally occuring |
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| Subject to erratic behavior; unpredictable |
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| Concerned only with what is on the surface or obvious; shallow |
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| Having little substance or strength; shaky; unsure, weak |
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| Of little importance or significance |
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| forceful; urgently demanding attention |
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| Marked by painstaking effort; hard-working |
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| To put up with; to survive hardship |
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| One who is independent and resists adherence to a group |
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| Stubbornly adhering to an opinion or a course of action |
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| To grow or increase rapidly |
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| To absorb; to make similar |
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| Circumstances of a situation; environment |
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| Copied or adapted from a source |
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| Imposed as a duty; obligatory |
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| Certain to happen, unavoidable |
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| Easily shaped or formed; easily influenced |
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| To restrain; to hold back |
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| Developed or learned; not naturally occuring |
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| The ability to form or understand an idea |
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| Stubbornly adhering to unproved beliefs |
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| Informative; contributing to one's awareness |
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| A feeling or understanding resulting from an experience |
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| The power of knowing things without thinking; sharp insight |
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| An incorrect understanding or interpretation |
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| Having great depth or seriousness |
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| Long established; deep-rooted; habitual |
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| Dificult to capture, as in something actually fleeting |
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| To leave one country or region and settle in another |
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| Passing away with time; passing from one place to another |
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| Good will between friends |
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| an economic or military measure put in place to punish another country |
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| having to do with appreciation of beauty |
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| A collection of literary pieces |
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| Current, modern; from the same time |
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| one with an amateurish or superficial understanding of a field of knowledge |
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| made up of a variety of sources or styles |
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| a selected part of a passage or scene |
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| describing a category or artistic endeavor |
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| an assortment or a mixture, especially of musical pieces |
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| a large painting applied directly to a wall or ceiling surface |
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(adj.) characterized by the telling of a story
(n.) a story |
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| an artistic work that imitates the style of another work for comic effect |
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| artistic representation that aims for visual accuracy |
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| a tremendously skilled artist |
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| proper; marked by good taste |
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| the quality of being calm and even-tempered; composure |
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| quiet or humble in manner or appearance |
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| appropriateness of behavior |
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| exercising good judgement or common sense |
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| indifferent to pleasure or pain; impassive |
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| to express strong disapproval of; denounce |
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| to speak of in a slighting way or negatively; to belittle |
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| describing words or phrases that belittle or speak negatively of someone |
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| the act of passing off the ideas or writing of another as one's own |
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| to make vicious statements about |
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| bitingly sarcastic or witty |
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| insulting in manner or speech |
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| known widely and usually unfavorably; infamous |
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| easily broken when subjected to pressure |
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| having a harmful effect; injurious |
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| mutual hatred or ill-will |
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| hatefully evil; abominable |
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| extreme ill-will or spite |
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| hateful; marked by deep-seated ill-will |
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| characteristic of an earlier period; old-fashioned |
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| worn out through overuse; trite |
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| referring to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned |
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| without decoration; strict |
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| anxiety or fear about the future |
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| something that indicates what is to come; a forerunner |
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| a feeling about the future |
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| timid; fearful about the future |
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| uncertainty; apprehension |
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| introducing something new |
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| coming into existence; emerging |
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| strikingly new or unusual |
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| describing a dry, rainless climate |
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| producing a deep or full sound |
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| describing a large amount of something |
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| commendable; worthy of imitation |
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| possessing careful attention to detail; difficult to please |
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| a group organized by rank |
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| not applied to actual objects |
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| something out of place in time or sequence |
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| the attribution of humanlike characteristics to inanimate objects, animals, or forces of nature |
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| a grammar construction in which a noun (or noun phrase) is placed with another as an explanation |
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| a perfect example; an original pattern or model |
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| equipment; a group of machines |
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| an inversion in the second of two parallel phrases |
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| making gestures while speaking |
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| existing only as an assumption or speculation |
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| a word book describing language with definitions; a dictionary |
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| a type of figurative language in which one term is substituted for another term with which it is closely associated |
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| an apparent contradiction of terms |
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| a grammar construction in which two identical syntactic constructions are used |
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| period(periodic sentence) |
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| long, complex, grammatically correct sentence |
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| an unusual, observable event |
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| presenting favorable circumstances; auspicious |
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| logical; motivated by reason rather than feeling |
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| disdainfully or ironically humorous; harsh, bitter, or caustic |
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| syllogism (syllogistic reasoning) |
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| a form of deductive reasoning; a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion |
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| a form of metonymy that's restricted to cases where a part is used to signify the whole |
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