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World Literature Vocabulary

sanguine, sardonic, insidious, euphemism, cogent, paradigm, august, vortex, quixotic, arable, hectare, potable, anthropogenic, salinizaion, reticent/reticence, rhetoric, alliteration, assonance, onomatopoeia, consonance, simile, metaphor, homophone, hyperbole, anaphora, antecedent, chiasmus, abstract, gesticulate, introspective, recondite, petulant, abstinent, ingenuous, anxious, subordinate clause, credulous/credible/credence, paradox, utopia, renaissance, explicit, incessant, assimilate, precipitous, lucid, rudimentary, anachronism, fecund, temerity, furtive, iamb, trocheecaesura, blank verse, trimeter, tetrameter, pentameter, hexameter, ephemeral, itinerant, philistine, profligate, tenet, charisma, chimera, agnostic, static, panacea, parochial, taciturn, unctuous, vitriolic, hypothetical, emulate, bane, ambivalent, solicitous, soporific, colloquial, ad hominem argument, allegory, aphorism, apostrophe, conceit, denotation, connotation, diction, agora, megaron, archetype, dissemble, indifferent, venerate/venerable, prodigious, tantalize, guile, protagonist, antagonist, hekatomb, titanic, asphodel, agon, pandemonium, didactic, euphemism, figurative language/figure of speech, metonomy, synecdoche, homily, loose sentence, periodic sentence, timeÕ, epithet, protean, hypocrisy, amulet, improvise, vainglory/vainglorious, maudlin, angst, metamorphosis, exigent, allegory, assiduous, loquacious, contemporary (noun), abstract (noun), noxious, dispassionately, arrant, agnostic, licentious, lassitude, perfunctory, dissolute, supine, limpid, , parsimonious, propitiatory, supercilious, laconic, taciturn, disapprobation, torpid

Look in EOS Part IV for: anxious, can/may, fewer/less, eldest/oldest, flout, flaunt, fortuitous, disinterested, refer, connive, conspire, compare with/compare to, comprise, infer, imply, allusion, illusion, effect/affect, shall/will, split infinitive, than/then, they, -wise

ALSO: relative pronouns (who, whom, whose, that, which, what, whoever, whomever, whatever, whichever)

Nominative (subject) pronouns: I, we, you, he, she, it, they
Objective (object) pronouns: me, us, you, him, her, it, them
Possessive pronouns: my, mine, our, ours, your, yours, his, her, hers, its, their, theirs
Reflexive pronouns: myself, ourselves, yourself, yourselves, himself, herself, itself, themselves


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