Unit 3: Lesson 2

Learn these words from Into Literature, Grade 12, Unit 3, Lesson 2.
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  1. irony
    incongruity between what is expected and what occurs
  2. understatement
    something said in a restrained way for ironic contrast
  3. exaggeration
    extravagant embellishment
  4. overstatement
    exaggeration of the importance or extent of something
  5. hyperbole
    extravagant exaggeration
  6. contradiction
    opposition between two conflicting forces or ideas
  7. sustenance
    a source of food or nourishment
  8. prodigious
    great in size, force, extent, or degree
  9. rudiment
    the elementary stage of any subject
  10. collateral
    accompanying; following as a consequence
  11. scrupulous
    having ethical or moral principles
  12. encumbrance
    an onerous or difficult concern
  13. inducement
    a positive motivational influence
  14. inclement
    severe, of weather
  15. liable
    likely to be or do something
  16. reckon
    judge to be probable
Created on Wed Sep 02 10:51:51 EDT 2020 (updated Thu Sep 10 14:24:01 EDT 2020)

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