Nouns
Soot
-a black powdery substance made of carbon
To Proclaim
-announce officially or publicly.
Gay
-happy, light-hearted and carefree.
Simile
-a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid
Hubris
-excessive pride or self-confidence.
To Feign
-pretend to be affected by (a feeling, state, or injury).
Apalling
causing shock or dismay; horrific.
Assonance
-resemblance of sound between syllables of nearby words, arising particularly from the rhyming of two or more stressed vowels, but not consonants (e.g. sonnet, porridge ), but also from the use of identical consonants with different vowels (e.g. killed, cold, culled ).
frying, fire
Dowry
-an amount of property or money brought by a bride to her husband on their marriage.
To Coin
-invent (a new word or phrase).
Ambivalent
-having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone.
-be a warning or indication of (a future event).
The _ bird catches the _
early, worm
Polygyny
-having many wives.
To Denigrate
-criticize or belittle, especially in an unfair way; disparage.
Antediluvian
-of or belonging to the time before the biblical Flood. (Really old)
Bathos
-(especially in a literary work) an effect of anticlimax created by an unintentional lapse in mood from the sublime to the trivial or ridiculous.
There's no point in crying over _ _
spilled, milk
Alacrity
-brisk and cheerful readiness. (enthusiasm)
To Proselytize
-convert or attempt to convert (someone) from one religion, belief, or opinion to another.
-tending to induce drowsiness or sleep. (Mr Rowat's lessons)
Perepetia
-a sudden reversal of fortune or change in circumstances, especially in reference to fictional narrative.
It was an _ wife's _
old, tale