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.