Unit 5: Vocabulary Review

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  1. address
    a formal spoken communication to an audience
  2. blunt
    characterized by directness in manner or speech
  3. convey
    serve as a means for expressing something
  4. diffuse
    spread out; not concentrated in one place
  5. execute
    put in effect
  6. expatriate
    a person who is voluntarily absent from home or country
  7. harbor
    secretly shelter, as a fugitive or criminal
  8. imagism
    a movement by American and English poets early in the 20th century in reaction to Victorian sentimentality; used common speech in free verse with clear concrete imagery
  9. irony
    incongruity between what might be expected and what occurs
  10. launch
    get going; give impetus to
  11. resolution
    a decision to do something or to behave in a certain manner
  12. sheer
    very steep; having a prominent and almost vertical front
  13. term
    a limited period of time during which something lasts
  14. World War I
    a war between the allies (Russia, France, British Empire, Italy, United States, Japan, Rumania, Serbia, Belgium, Greece, Portugal, Montenegro) and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, Bulgaria) from 1914 to 1918
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