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abyss
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an immeasurable profound depth or void
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adamantine
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unyielding; inflexible
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amerced
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punishable by an arbitrary penalty
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ammiral
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an obsolete for of admiral
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apostate
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one who forsakens his principles or beliefs
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ardent
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displaying or characterized by strong enthusiasm or devotion
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arrogate
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to take or claim without right
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asperse
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to charge falsely or without malicious intent
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baleful
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evil; dire
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beatific
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blissful; saintly
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bituminous
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relating to or contaning coal
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brooding
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deeply or seriously thoughtful
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capacious
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roomy; spacious
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carbuncle
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painful infection of the skin
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concupiscence
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ardent, usually sensuous, longing
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deluge
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overrun with water
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dubious
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of uncertain outcome
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elocution
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the art of speaking clearly and effectively
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empyreal
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celestial
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ensign
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a sign, token, or emblem
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ethereal
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heavenly esquisite
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execrable
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utterly detestable, abominable, abhorrent
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fealty
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loyalty that citizens owe to their country
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gloze
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to explain away, extenuate, gloss over
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ignominy
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dishonor; infamy
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impetuous
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impulsive
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impious
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lacking respect
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incumbent
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the holder of an office
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indgination
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anger aroused by something unjust
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infernal
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of or relating to Hell
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invoke
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to call upon for assistance
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jaunting
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making a short excursion
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jocund
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cheerful disposition
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kine
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plural form of cow
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lascivious
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inclined to lustfulness, wanton, lewd
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marle
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thin cloth used to cover wounds
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maugre
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notwithstanding, in spite of
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nocent
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harmful, injurious
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obdurate
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hardened against good morals
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opprobrious
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outrageously disgraceful or shameful
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oracle
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source of wise counsel or prophetic opinions
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penal
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subject to or incurring punishment
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perfidious
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deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful
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pernicious
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insiduously harmful or ruinous
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phalanx
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any closely ranked crowd of people
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pilaster
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a rectangular column
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pregnant
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teeming or fertile; rich
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proem
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a short introduction; preface
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profluent
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flowing smoothly or abundantly forth
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progeny
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a descendent or an offspring
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propitious
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presenting favorable conditions
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puissant
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powerful; mighty; potent
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rancor
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bitter; rankling resentment or ill will
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rapine
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forcible seizure of another's property
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rivulet
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small brook or stream
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rood
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a cross as used in crucifixion
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sapient
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wise; discerning
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satiate
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to satisfy to the full
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sedulous
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marked by care and persistent effort
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sottish
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given to excessive drinking
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suppliant
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asking humbly and earnestly
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tempestuous
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tumultuous; stormy
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thrall
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one under the control of another person
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transgress
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to go beyond
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umbrage
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offense, annoyance, displeasure
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unctuous
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excessively smooth, suave, or smug; oily
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usurper
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one who wrongfully or illegally seizes and holds the place of another
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uxorious
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excessively submissive or devoted to one's wife
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venial
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easily excused or forgiven
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verdant
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green with vegetation
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voluble
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fluent; talkative
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vouchsafe
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to allow or permit, as by favor
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welter
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confusion; turmoil
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blank verse
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metrically traditional, but without rhyme
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confessional poetry
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a school of poetry where the poet may expose personal, taboo, or difficult things about himself; dramatic monologue poetry often does this, but the poet is confessing from within another person's mind
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couplet
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a two line stanza, or the same rhyme pattern in two conjoined lines
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dramatic monolgue
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a poem that dramatizes someone's thoughts and actions; the persona of the poem talks directly to "us" or an unseen other
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end rhyme
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rhymed sound at the end of the line
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endstop
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the line ends with a period or the feeling of a period
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foot
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a group of 2 or 3 stressed and unstressed syllables
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formalism
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following traditional, given poetic forms such as sonnets, villanelles
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free verse
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without rhyme or structures metrical pattern
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iamb
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a foot with an unaccented syllable and an accented syllable
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internal rhyme
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rhymed sound before the end of the line
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meter
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the use of patterns of stressed and unstressed rhythms (beats) in a poetic line sometimes following strict, traditional forms (or violating those forms in free verse)
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movement
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the way the lines flow together, speak to or against each other, and pull us forward in a poem
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ode
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a poem that commemorates or celebrates; written for an occasion; classic Odes have 3 parts
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pentameter
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a line with 5 feet; iambic pentameter= 10 syllables
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refrain
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a repeating line/verse in a song or poem
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rhyme scheme
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a repeated pattern of end rhymes, usually marked with letters
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scansion
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scanning rhythm of a line by locating patterns of feet with stressed and unstressed syllables
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sestet
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a six line stanza (not usually the same rhyme pattern in each line)
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slant rhyme
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substitution of assonance or consonance for a true rhyme
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sonnet
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14 line poem; Shakesperean- one stanza, English-4 stanzas (ABABCDCDEFEFGG), Italian-octave (ABBABBA) and sestet (CDECDE)
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stanza
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a grouping of lines in a poem; can follow strict form or free verse
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tension
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the sense of conflict, need for nature vs. a hectic city life
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true rhyme
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the last syllable rhyme sounds and is usually spelled exactly the same
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typographical rhythms
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the way white space in front of, in the middle of, or after lines creates rhythmic pauses and variations in meaning and emphasis
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villanelle
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a 19 line form using only 2 rhymes and repeating two of the lines according to a set pattern
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