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Vocabulary week 5
Question | Answer |
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Consolation | Consolation Something that provides comfort in a time of grief or loss |
Contemplate | To think about or consider carefully for a period of time. |
Crucial | Very important; decisive. |
Deception | A trick meant to fool someone or hide the truth. |
Deduction | A conclusion based on what is known to be true |
Deftly | In a skillful, nimble, clever way. |
Deployed | Arranged and utilized strategically. |
Derision | Ridicule; contempt |
Derived | Derived: Traced or coming from a source. |
Subsequently | Subsequently: Occurring or coming after; following; later. |
Sturdy | Sturdy: Strongly built, robust, hardy. |
Energy | Energy: The ability to cause change. |
Kinetic Energy | Kinetic Energy: Energy in motion |
Potential Energy | Potential Energy: Stored Energy |
Metaphor | Metaphor: a figure of speech that describes an object or action in a way that isn’t literally true, but helps explain an idea or make a comparison. Example: “Time is a Thief.” |
Simile | Simile: a figure of speech that indirectly compares two different things by employing the words "like", "as", or "than". |
Personification | Personification: A type of figurative language which represents a non-human thing as if it were human. |