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| similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses |
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| a literary technique that is a part of composition, which encompasses the attitudes toward the subject and toward the audience implied in a literary work |
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| Not capable of being persuaded by pleas |
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| the condition or quality of being devoid of freshness or originality |
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| an event, conclusion, or statement that is far less important, powerful, or striking than expected |
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| a decorative design or small illustration used on the title page of a book or at the beginning or end of a chapter |
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| an utterance or discourse by a person who is talking to himself or herself or is disregardful of or oblivious to any hearers present |
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| absolutely necessary or required; unavoidable |
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| an extravagant statement or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally |
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| directly opposed or contrasted |
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| a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance |
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| liable to be false; not accurate |
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| a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth |
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| a furtive departure or entrance; a surreptitious procedure |
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| a gradual, steady increase in loudness or force; a musical passage characterized by such an increase. |
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| to meditate or muse; to chew again or over and over |
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| infinite knowledge; the quality or state of having complete or unlimited knowledge, awareness, or understanding |
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| existing in the mind; belonging to the thinking subject rather than to the object of thought |
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| something that threatens to cause evil, harm, injury |
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| a figure of speech by which a locution produces a seemingly self contradictory effect |
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| not involving questions of right or wrong; without moral quality |
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| occurs when you make the object of an action into the subject of a sentence |
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| rightness of principle or conduct |
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| the aggregate of manufacturing or technically productive enterprises in a particular field |
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| an act or instance of placing close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast |
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| an increase by natural growth or by gradual external addition |
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| characteristic of or appropriate to ordinary or familiar conversation rather than formal speech or writing |
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| the person used by a speaker in referring to the one or ones to whom he or she is speaking |
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| a third-person narration through the eyes of a single character |
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| ridiculously or insultingly small |
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| the practice of representing things by symbols, or of investing things with a symbolic meaning or character |
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| A figure of speech in which some absent or nonexistent person or thing is addressed as if present and capable of understanding |
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| to gather into a compact roll and bind securely |
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| lacking in vigor or vitality; slack or slow |
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| a golden-yellow or light yellow brown color and for a form of earth pigment which produces the color |
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| A feeling of fear or agitation about something that may happen; trembling motion |
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| a forest or an area of woodland on high ground |
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| a green or greenish-blue poisonous pigment resulting from the action of acetic acid on copper and consisting of one or more basic copper acetates |
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| Of less than audible frequency |
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| Make a liquid turbid or muddy by disturbing the sediment |
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| In a very poor condition as a result of disuse and neglect |
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| The money or other means needed for a particular purpose |
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| rounded knoll of ice rising above the general level of an ice-field |
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| Mental calmness, composure, and evenness of temper, esp. in a difficult situation |
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| accumulation of broken rock fragments at the base of crags, mountain cliffs, or valley shoulders |
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n: A person who makes slow progress and falls behind others
adj: Slower than desired or expected |
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| 1.Pertaining to the soil deposited by a stream |
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| a dry creek or stream bed—gulch that temporarily or seasonally fills and flows after sufficient rain |
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| having a kindly disposition; gracious |
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| any of a number of small, parallel beams of timber, steel, reinforced concrete, etc., for supporting floors, ceilings, or the like |
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| the uppermost bone of the proximal row of bones of the tarsus |
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