Unit 3: Lesson 6

Learn these words from Into Literature, Grade 12, Unit 3, Lesson 6.
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  1. novel
    an extended fictional work in prose
  2. verisimilitude
    the appearance of truth; the quality of seeming to be true
  3. narrator
    someone who tells a story
  4. denotation
    the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression
  5. connotation
    an idea that is implied or suggested
  6. perspective
    a way of regarding situations or topics
  7. memoir
    an account of the author's personal experiences
  8. allusion
    passing reference or indirect mention
  9. visitation
    the act of going to see some person or place
  10. summon
    gather or bring together
  11. discourse
    extended verbal expression in speech or writing
  12. promiscuous
    not selective of a single class or person
  13. huddle
    crowd or draw together
  14. abate
    become less in amount or intensity
  15. abyss
    a bottomless gulf or pit
  16. ersatz
    artificial and inferior
  17. veracity
    unwillingness to tell lies
  18. Pyrrhic victory
    a victory that is won by incurring terrible losses
  19. pyrrhic
    relating to a victory that is offset by staggering losses
  20. vexation
    anger produced by some annoying irritation
  21. vigilance
    alert attentiveness
  22. plateau
    reach a stage where no further progress is made
  23. prognosis
    a prediction of the course of a disease
Created on Wed Sep 02 10:57:54 EDT 2020 (updated Wed Apr 28 10:56:56 EDT 2021)

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