Definitions
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Analogies
100
From where.
What is whence?
100
Being only average in quality.
What is mediocrity?
100
The ___________ of Langston Hughes's essay displayed his discouraged attitude toward the changing Harlem.
What is tone?
100
Spell unselfish concern for the welfare of others; selflessness.
What is A L T R U I S M?
100
Up is to down as mend is to __________.
What is rend?
200
The atmosphere a writer creates for the reader.
What is mood?
200
A mental view or outlook
What is perspective?
200
The children were afraid to be in the house alone at night after they saw a _____________ floating down the stairs.
What is specter?
200
Spell lessening a fault by serving as a partial excuse
What is E X T E N U A T I N G?
200
Hot is to cold as deny is to __________.
What is accede?
300
Softly humming.
What is croon?
300
To make something greater, as in size, extent or quantity.
What is augment?
300
The ______________ child stuck out his tongue and screamed at his mother.
What is impertinent?
300
Spell lacking in color; unusually pale
What is P A L L O R?
300
Sunrise is to dawn as pugnacious is to _____________ .
What is truculent?
400
Shameful, disgraceful.
What is inglorious?
400
Framework that serves as a pattern or model.
What is paradigm?
400
His plan to rob the house seemed ______________ except that he left footprints in the snow.
What is infallible?
400
Spell a thin surface layer covering the underneath.
What is V E N E E R?
400
Warm is to hot as dislike is to _____________ .
What is deplore?
500
Great and lasting.
What is monumental?
500
Restrained by force.
What is constrained?
500
Shakespeare wrote 154 ____________ in his lifetime.
What are sonnets?
500
Spell illegal prohibition bars.
What are S P E A K E A S I E S?
500
Slow is to fast as unmotivated is to _____________ .
What is aspire?
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