Word Wall & Definitions
- Bard: noun. a person who composed and recited epic or heroic poems, often while playing the harp, lyre or the like.
- Oxford comma: noun. The serial comma (also known as the Harvard comma, and sometimes referred as the series comma) is the comma used immediately before a coordinating conjunction preceding the final item in a list of three or more items.
- Dogma: noun. An official system of principles or tenets concerning faith, morals, behaviors, etc.
- Pallid: adj. Pale; faint or deficient in color; wan
- Semantics: noun. The study of the meaning and of lingustic development by classifying and examining changes in the meaning of form.
- Complacent Reactionary:
- Dichotomy: noun. Division into two parts, kinds, etc. also a division into two mutually exclusive, opposed, or contradictory groups.
- Verbatim: adv. Saying something in exactly the same words.
- Verbose: adj. Characterized by the use of many or too many words; wordy.
- Pervasiness: noun. The quality of filling or spreading throughout.
- Pharisees: noun. //// A person who belonged to a Jewish sect.
- Laud: verb. to praise in a high matter.
- Posthumously: adj. Right after someones death.
- Inviolate: adj. Something being free from violation.
- Linguistic: adj. things being part of or belonging to language.
- Phenomenon: anything that a person can do and be recognized by senses.
- Modals: adj. noting or pertaining to mood.
- Intellectual dishonesty:
- Eradicable: the ability of something being pulled by the roots.
- Circumlocutions: noun. A indirect way of expressing one's idea with the use of more words than the usual.
- Gratis: adv. Something that is free.
- Raiment: noun. Clothing
- Assuage: verb. Soothing; ease.
- Armaments: noun. The equipment that military units use for defense or so.
- Gregariousness: adj. Sociable or being with the company of others.
- Rudimentary: adj. Elementary
- Ennobled: verb. to respect or go higher in excellence.
- Perennial: adj. lasting forever; enduring
- Piety: noun. Having great respect and reverence to God.
- Yuppie: noun. A person well prepared and educated in a career that has an affluent lifestyle.
- Allocate: verb. To locate
- Myriads: noun. Ten thousand.
- Futile: adj. something that is ineffective; cant produce anything.
- Arboreal: adj. Tree like
- Stoic: adj. part of the study of philosophy
- Ambivalence: noun. Uncertainty that is caused by the inability of making a choice by the desire to say or do two opposite things
- Motif: noun. A recurring subject in literature work.
- Platitude: noun. the state of being flat.
- Neuroplasticity: noun. The ability to use our nervous system to make our brains work the way we want.
- Inexorable: adj. not affected by prayers or entreaties.
- Dissent: verb. to disagree with the opinions of the majority
- Heresy: the maintaining of a doctrine or beliefs.
- Participles: noun. An adjective to certain auxilaries that is regularly derived from the verb.
- Esoteric: noun. Restricted or confidential.
- Candor: noun. freedom from bias
- Peremptory: adj. leaving no opportunity for denial
- Innocuous: adj. not harmful.
- Cohesion: noun. The act of sticking together. Union.
- Copious: adj. large in amount; abundant
- Ceremony: noun.
- Ritual: noun A established procedure for religion rites.\
- Denotation vs. Definition: Denotation is the direct meaning of an expression. Definition is the act of making something clear by defining a statement or word
- In phatic: language used for general purposes and social interactions
- differentiated: verb. The act of recognizing something or someone different characteristics.
- Presymbollic Language: noun. Words before being written.
- Social groups: noun. people who share certain social things
- Triviality: noun. Pettyness
- Tedium: noun. The state of being wearisome
- Aesthetic: adj. Having a sense of the beautiful; love of beauty.
- Contrivance: noun. the act or manner of contriving
- Brevity: noun. shortness of time; short lasting
- Premise: noun. A preposition supporting a conclusion.
- Short Story: noun. A story that has a fully developed theme but significantly shorter than a regular novel.
- Commercial Fiction: noun. Fiction that is written to appeal broad-based a reader.
- Literary Fiction: noun A general category for intelligent and serious fiction.
- Platitude: noun. A flat, dull remark; profound.