College Lit Vocab

14 September 2015

abashed (Ravi), abate (Meg), abrogate (Jordan). blanch (Ravi),

festinate (Dylan), hackneyed (Hunter), halcyon (Jordan), hedonist (Hunter),

jebel (Mackenzie), mien (Dylan), superlative (Trey), trussing (Meg)

5 October 2015

metonymy (Dylan), synechdoche (Trey),

alliteration (consonance and assonance) (Ravi),

hyperbole (Jordan), litote (Sarah), anaphora (Hunter),

elision (Meg), enjambment (Nate), allusion (Kenzie), polysemy (Mr. K.)

iambic pentameter and tetrameter (Eva)

Trochee? Spondee? anapest? dactyll? (Mr. K.)

18 October 2015

brazen (Sarah), capitulate (Eva), clandestine (Hunter),

defenestrate (Dylan), dissipation (Nate), florid (Mackenzie),

manifold (Ravi), propinquity (Jordan), prosaic (Trey),

renege (Ravi), rhapsodic (Dylan),

sagacity (Sarah), vindicate (Meg)

2 November 2015

assimilate (Hunter), dissimulation (Jordan), magnanimous (Ravi),

obeisance (Sarah), obsequiousness (Trey), piquancy (Meg),

preclude (Dylan), querulous (Hunter), savoir-faire (Ravi),

sinecure (Nate), somnolent (Sarah), tacit (Mackenzie), toady (Eva)

31 November

aesthetic (Dylan), crestfallen (Ravi), decrepitude (Eva),

impute (Hunter), perfidious (MacKenzie), quixotic (Jordan),

surreptitious (Nate), ubiquitous (Sarah), wanton (Meg),