Tuesday, March 5, 2019

Vocabulary 61-80


  1. pestilence - disease
  2. cask - barrel, keg of alcohol
  3. impunity - to get away with 
  4. immolation - destruction
  5. accost - wrestle, to grab roughly
  6. implore - beg
  7. hearken - listen
  8. En Medias Res - in the middle of
  9. rhyme scheme - pattern of rhyme found
  10. free verse - has no pattern of rhyme in the poem
  11. stanza - paragraph in a poem
  12. internal rhyme - rhyme found within a line (middle and end)
  13. homophone - same sounding words but different meanings
  14. 4th wall - invisible wall that separates the audience from the story
  15. dissimulated - conceal or disguise
  16. cunning - trickery
  17. symbolism - deeper meaning
  18. vex - bothered
  19. sagacity - cleaverness
  20. suppositions - guesses, theories
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