Friday, September 16, 2016

Vocab #1

1. Theme: center message of a story
2. Tone: to repeat the author's attitude toward the audience, or the topic, or the characters
3. Mood: readers emotion while reading
4. Diction: the words an author uses to tell a story
5. Syntax: the way the author puts the words together
6. Stupid: lacking intelligence or common sense
7. Adumbrate: report or represent in outline
8. Apotheosis: the highest point in the development of something; culmination or climax
9.Ascetic: characterized by or suggesting the practice of severe self-discipline and abstention from all forms of indulgence, typically for religious reasons
10. Bauble: a small, showy trinket or decoration
11.Burgeon: begin to grow or increase rapidly; flourish
12.Complement: a thing that completes or brings to perfection
13.Contumacious: stubbornly or willfully disobedient to authority
14. Curmudgeon: a bad tempered or surly person
15. Didactic: intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive

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