Definition
Royal bearing; showing the authority or grandeur of sovereign rulers.
Majesty
acute
Very intense or severe; extremely serious or dangerous.
Revenge
Vengeance
Graft
noun
the comparison which is made explicit through the use of words such as like, as, similar to, or resemble.
Simile
the forced journey of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to America.
Middle Passage
overcome
To surmount, surpass, or prevail over obstacles.
Pain, distress.
ail
Sullen
Adjective
The attribution of human qualities to an object, animal, or concept.
Personification
Chauffeur
Fix
To direct and hold one's attention on something
Examine, study
Scrutinize
concrete
adjective
A reference to another literary or cultural work.
Allusion
Not engaged in work or activity; doing nothing.
Idle
Jubilance
The state of rejoicing; the state of expressing great triumph or joy.
Reject, spurn
Rebuff
meddle
verb
Rhetorical exaggeration or overstatement.
Hyperbole
To pretend to perform a role by silently mimicking the body movements and facial expressions.
Pantomime
Dart
To move suddenly or rapidly.
Funeral oration, engraving
Epitaph
loom
verb
A compact paradox that consists of two words in a row that seem to contradict each other.