Quarter One Vocab

Having the style or diction of prose; lacking poetic beauty

An incomplete sentence that lacks the necessary grammatical elements to make an independent clause.

Inclined to or exhibiting assertiveness, hostility, or combativeness

Being or exhibiting an omen

Designed or intended to teach

Relating to or characteristic of an elegy (funeral speech)

Anxious or fearful that something bad or unpleasant will happen.

Blatantly and disdainfully proud : having or showing an attitude of superiority and contempt for people or things percei

Markedly good-humored especially as evidenced by cheerfulness and conviviality

High-sounding but with little meaning; inflated

Having a humorous, whimsical, or odd quality

Lacking proper respect or seriousness

Giving cause for alarm; serious

Grimly mocking or cynical

Intended for or likely to be understood by only a small number of      people with a specialized knowledge or interest

Low in spirits

States or declares something

Involving or producing a harsh, discordant mixture of sounds:

Of, relating to, or constituting satire

Feeling or showing deep and solemn respect

An incomplete sentence that lacks the necessary grammatical elements to make an independent clause.

Feeling or showing anger because of something unjust or unworthy

Marked by or disposed to doing good

A sentence in which the essential meaning is complete before the end

Used in ordinary or familiar conversation; not formal or literary

Having or displaying a friendly and pleasant manner.

A sentence containing two or more clauses not connected by the correct conjunction or punctuation

A command

Giving too much attention to formal rules or small details

A question

Characterized by or proceeding from an intense and serious state of mind

Based on or in accordance with what is generally done or believed.

Attempting to impress by affecting greater importance, talent, culture, etc., than is actually possessed:

Unhappy and annoyed

An exclamation

Abrupt or offhand in speech or manner

Truthful and straightforward; frank.

Very old or old-fashioned

Pleasing to the ear

A sentence in which the main thought is not complete until the end

The phrases or clauses balance each other in likeness or structure, meaning, and/or length