Vocab 2
Vocab 2
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Vocab 1
Vocab 1
100

Having or showing confidence.

Assertive

100

With a strong or powerful smell or taste.

Pungently

100

A word or phrase that connects one idea to another.

Transitions

100

Causing fear or dread; intimidating.

Formidable

100

In a threatening manner.

Balefully

200

An unpleasant meeting or run-in with someone.

Encounter

200

To light up.

Illuminate

200

The subject or main idea of a piece of writing.

Theme

200

Anger at something that is unfair, whether real or perceived.

Indignation

200

To grimace because of pain or disgust.

Wince

300

Having significant effect; strong, powerful.

Potent

300

An unpleasant meeting or run-in with someone.

Inevitable

300

A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction.
Ex: The sweater is pretty ugly.

Oxymoron

300

The deliberate destruction or defacement of public or private property.

Vandalism

300

To change one’s religion or system of beliefs.  

Convert

400

The possibility that something will happen in the future.

Prospect

400

In a way that suggests something bad will happen.

Ominously

400

Gives inanimate objects a sense of being alive.

Personification

400

A person who has broken the law and remains a fugitive.

Outlaw

400

A person who has done a crime.

Culprit

500

To escape or avoid something or someone.

Elude

500

In a friendly, agreeable way.

Amiably

500

Comparing two different things using the words "like" or "as".

Simile

500

To walk with a haughty air.

Stalk

500

The appeal to emotion, means to persuade an audience by purposely evoking certain emotions to make them feel the way the author wants them to feel. 

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