Baldwin's Words
This noun means "a confident and arrogant attitude"
What is "bravado"?
To loosen or become less tight, as a length of rope or line; to sag
What is slacken?
The more emphatic pronunciation of a syllable; slightly louder, longer, or stronger than the other syllables next to it.
What is stress?
A short horizontal line that signals a connection between two words or parts of words
What is a hyphen?
A storm (in somewhat dated or elevated language)
What is a tempest?
To decode or make sense of
What is decipher?
Capable of withstanding damage or a challenge; capable of healing from damage
What is resilient?
The surroundings, or surrounding information, that gives meaning to an idea or event
What is context?
In literature, a comparison between two things in which one thing represents the other by standing in for it; a symbol
What is a metaphor?
Not able to be comprehended in a clear or straightforward way
What is ambiguous?
A problem with no clearly favorable solution, or a problem in which every solution poses new problems
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What is a dilemma?
The sound of a forceful impact
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What is a repercussion?
Can also mean: a negative consequence, or a punishment
One beat or individual sound, when pronouncing a word aloud
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What is a syllable?
A rhythmic pattern governs all these words
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What is "iambic pentameter"?
"iamb" = a metered pair of syllables in which the second syllable receives stress
"pentameter" = five meters per line
Added on to or make worse, as a problem or negative attribute
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What is compounded?
Vulnerable, or weak to a specific or potential danger
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What is susceptible?
A moment or event involving thinking about or paying tribute to something from the past
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What is remembrance?
The way words are sounded out when said aloud as part of language
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What is pronunciation?
When a word or syllable is spelled the way it sounds, using the simplest combinations of vowels and consonants, and no "silent letters"
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What is phonetic?
Always happening, or happening again and again without stopping
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What is perpetual?
In a way that cannot be changed, stopped, or reversed
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What is irrevocably?
In a way that is chaotic, disorganized, or full of difficulty (in reference to an event or activity)
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What is tumultuously?
(of a story or statement widely believed to be true) probably or definitely not true, according to actual fact
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What is apocryphal?
To collect into a group
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What is aggregate?
Any tool or device with a specific function or purpose; it can be conceptual or mechanical
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What is an apparatus?