Vocabulary Definitions

adumbrate

foreshadow or symbolize

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apotheosis

the highest point in the development of something; culmination or climax

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ascetic

ONE WHO PRACTICES SELF-DENIAL, discipline

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bauble

something atratice but useless thing

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beguile

To deceive; to charm; to enchant

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burgeon

to grow and flourish

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complent

something that completes or makes perfect

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contumacious

Rebellious; stubbornly disobedient

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curmudgeon

Bad-tempered, difficult person; grouch

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didactic

Intended to instruct; teaching , or teaching a moral lessen

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tone

A writer's attitude toward his and sometime characters

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mood

how we feel when we read

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diction

the words an author chooses to tell a story

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syntax

the way the author writes something

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theme

Central idea of a work of literature