Vocabulary Night
Rhetorical Devices
Vocabulary Night 2
Cede/Miss/Mitt
Names from People
100

to rebel or organize a rebellion

revolt

100

a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else • a figure of speech in which an opposition or contrast of ideas is expressed by parallelism of words that are the opposites of, or strongly contrasted with, each other

antithesis

100

unable to be endured

intolerable

100

to send payment

remit

100
a silvery liquid metal
mercury
200

a minor official in the Jewish synagogue

Beadle

200

Transposition of normal word order; Patience I lack.–" Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing." Edgar Allan Poe, "The Raven“

anastophe

200

Apathetic; having no particular interest or sympathy; unconcerned

indifferent

200

to move back or away from a previous position

recede

200

a book of maps

atlas

300

A person who is sent from a place 

deportee

300

Evade or escape from

elude
300

severe mental or physical pain or suffering

anguish

300

happy and cheerful

jovial

300

a mental disorder where the person thinks he or she is better and smarter than everyone else

narcissim

400

a large fire

conflagration

400

a structure, typically of two uprights and a crosspiece, for the hanging of criminals

gallows

400

showing a disinterested and selfless concern for the well-being of others; unselfish

altruistic

400

to tempt someone

tantalize

400
the mind

psyche

500

a Jewish House of worship

synagogue

500
strong language, curse words, profanity

invectives

500

causing great horror or fear; frightful or macabre

ghastly

500

a long journey

odyssey

500

to make milk pure

pasteurize