Week 18

Cumulative

resulting from accumulation; increasing

Extricate

to release; to disentangle

Impunity

freedom from punishment, penalty, or harm

Lithe

graceful in motion; moving and bending with ease

Poignant

very moving; touching

Propriety

proper behavior; appropriateness

Pundit

critic

Satiate

to satisfy fully

Superfluous

unnecessary; excessive

Trite

overused; hackneyed; cliched

Stanza

A group of lines forming a unit in a poem.

Transcendentalism

A philosophical and literary movement whose followers believed that basic truth could be reached only by going "beyond" or transcending, reason and reflecting on the word of the spirit and on one's own deep and free intuition.

Thesis

The main idea of a work of non-fiction.

Vernacular

Ordinary speech of a particular country or region.

Tone

A reflection of a writer's or a speaker's attitude toward the subject matter, as conveyed through elements such as word choice, punctuation, sentence structure, and figures of speech.

Cumulative

resulting from accumulation; increasing

Extricate

to release; to disentangle

Impunity

freedom from punishment, penalty, or harm

Lithe

graceful in motion; moving and bending with ease

Poignant

very moving; touching

Propriety

proper behavior; appropriateness

Pundit

critic

Satiate

to satisfy fully

Superfluous

unnecessary; excessive

Trite

overused; hackneyed; cliched

Stanza

A group of lines forming a unit in a poem.

Transcendentalism

A philosophical and literary movement whose followers believed that basic truth could be reached only by going "beyond" or transcending, reason and reflecting on the word of the spirit and on one's own deep and free intuition.

Thesis

The main idea of a work of non-fiction.

Vernacular

Ordinary speech of a particular country or region.

Tone

A reflection of a writer's or a speaker's attitude toward the subject matter, as conveyed through elements such as word choice, punctuation, sentence structure, and figures of speech.