2. Apotheosis: (a) the best and most perfect example of something. (b) the best or highest point in someone's life or career
3. Ascetic: living without any physical pleasures or comforts, especially for religious reasons.
4. Bauble: (a) a cheap piece of jewelry. (b) (British English) a brightly colored decoration that looks like a ball and used to decorate a Christmas tree.
5. Beguile: (a) to interest and attract someone, (b) to persuade or trick someone into doing something (c) (Literature) to do something that makes the time pass in an enjoyable way.
6. Burgeon: to grow or develop quickly
7. Complement: something that perfects, completes, or adds to.
8. Contumacious: (especially of a defendant's behavior) stubbornly or willfully disobedient to authority.
9. Curmudgeon: someone who is often annoyed or angry, especially an old person.
10. *Diction: the choice and use of words and phrases to express meaning, especially literature. (a) the way in which someone pronounces words.
11. Didactic: (a) speech or writing that is intended to teach people a moral lesson. (b) someone who is didactic is too eager to teach people things or gives instructions.
12. Disingenuous: not sincere and slightly dishonest.
13. Exculpate: to prove that someone is not guilty of something.
14. Faux Pas: an embarrassing mistake in a social situation.
15. Fulminate: to criticize someone or something angrily.
16. Fustian: (a) a type of rough heavy cotton cloth, worn especially in the past. (b) (Literary) words that sound important but have very little meaning.
17. Hauteur: a proud, very unfriendly manner.
18. Inhibit: (a) to prevent something from growing or developing well. (b) to make someone feel embarrassed or nervous so that they cannot do or say what they want to.
19. Jeremiad: a long speech or piece of writing that complains about a situation, or says that bad things will happen.
20. Mood: the way you feel at a particular time.
21. Opportunist: (a) someone who uses every opportunity to gain power, money, or unfair advantages - used to show disapproval. (b) someone who commits a crime because they have a chance to, and not because they planned to.
22. *Stupid(ity): the willful ignorance or contesting any new or dissent information (a) behavior or actions that show a lack of good sense or good judgment.
23. *Syllogism: the most basic/simplest form of argumentation and logic. An assertion that depends on a major and minor premise (a) a statement with three parts, the first two of which prove that the third part is true.
24. Syntax: the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences of language.
25. *Theme: the central message. (a) the main subject or idea in a piece of writing, speech, film, etc.
26. *Tone: the author's attitude towards the audience, topic, or sometimes the characters. (a) the way your voice sounds, which shows how you are feeling or what you mean.
*Words discussed in class & definitions derived from Dr. Preston's interpretations and meaning of the word.
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