- Abhorrent
- Causing disgust, hatred, etc.; detestable.
- Acanthus
- Any of a genus of thistlelike plants of the acanthus family with lobed, often spiny leaaves and long spikes of white or colored flowers, found in the Mediterranean region.
- Aesthetic
- 1 of beauty. 2 sensitive to art and beauty; showing good taste; artistic.
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- Aesthetics
- The study or theory of beauty and of the psychological responses to it; specifically, the branch of philosophy dealing with art, its creative sources, its forms, and its effects.
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- Allegory
- A story in which people, things, and happenings have a hidden or symbolic meaning.
- Amaranth
- 1 Any of a genus of plants of the amaranth family. 2 An imaginary flower that never fades or dies. 3 A dark purplish red.
- Asphodel
- Any of a genus of plants of the lily family, having fleshy roots, narrow leaves, and white or yellow, lilylike flowers; especially the classic flower of death.
- Assonance
- 1 Likeness of sound, as in a series of words or syllables. 2 A partial rhyme in which the stressed vowel sounds are alike but the consonant sounds are unlike, as in late and make.
- Austere
- 1 Having a severe or stern look, manner, etc.; forbidding. 2 Showing strict self-discipline and self-denial; ascetic. 3 Very plain; lacking ornament or luxery.
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- Baldic
- A belt worn over one shoulder and across the chest to support a sword, bugle, etc.
- Beadsman
- A person who prays for another, especially one paid to do so.
- Beldame
- An old woman; especially, a hideous old woman; hag.
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- Classicism
- 1 The aesthetic principles or qualities regarded as characteristic of ancient Greece and Rome; objectivity, formaility, balance, simplicity, restraint, etc. 2 Adherence to such principles.
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- Copse
- A thicket of small trees or shrubs
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- Didactic
- 1 Used or intended for teaching or instruction. 2 Morally instructive, or intended to be so.
- Dulcimer
- A musical instrument with metal strings, which are struck with two small hammers by the player.
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- Embower
- To enclose or shelter in or as in a bower
- Epigram
- 1 A short poem with a witty or satirical point. 2 Any terse, witty, pointed statement, often with a clever twist in thought.
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- Epigraph
- A brief quotation placed at the beginning of a book, chapter, etc.
- Epithet
- 1 An adjective, noun, or phrase, often specifically a disparaging one, used to characterize some person or thing (Ex.: "egghead" for an intellectual). 2 A descriptive name or title (Ex.: Philip the Fair; America the Beautiful).
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- Exemplar
- 1 A person or thing regarded as worthy of imitation; model; pattern; archetype. 2 A typical speciman or example. 3 A copy of a book, pamphlet, etc.
- Explicate
- To make clear or explicit (something obscured orr implied); explain fully
- Extant
- Still existing; not extinct; not lost or destroyed.
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- Fecundity
- Fruitful or fertile; productive; prolific.
- Flit
- To pass lightly and rapidly.
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- Galangal
- 1 Either of two plants of the gigner family, whose dried rhizomes yield aromatic substances used in medicines and flavorings. 2 Any of various plants of the sedge family, some of which have aromatic rootstocks.
- Galingale
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- Georgic
- 1 Having to do with agriculture or husbandry. 2 A poem dealing with farming or rural life.
- Greaves
- The sediment of skin, etc. formed when animal fat is melted down for tallow
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- Imbower
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- Impetus
- Anything that stimulates activity; driving force or motive; incentive; impulse.
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- Lee
- 1 Shelter; protection. 2 The side or direction away from the wind.
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- Mastiff
- Any of a breed of large, powerful dog with hanging lips and drooping ears and having a short, thick, often fawn-colored coat, dark on the muzzle, nose and ears: formerly used for hunting, now often a watchdog and guard dog.
- Moly
- An herb of magic powers, as, in Homer's Odyssey, that given to Odysseus to protect him from Circe's incantation.
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- Neo-Classical
- Of or relating to a revival or adapatation of classical style in literature, especially of, relating to, or being the dominant style of English literature of the 18th century (c.1660-1740); neoclassical poetry - characterized by the simile, the periphrasis, the ornamental epithet, the epigram, the balance, and the antithesis.
SEE Neo-Classicism, Classicism, Periphrasis, Epithet, Epigram
- Neo-Classicism
- The principles or the style of neoclassical literature, art, architecture, music, or economics; drama - marked by a devotion to the "Rules": the three unities, the use of a chorus, the avoidance of violence on stage, and the use of only royal or noble characters in a tragedy.
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- Nonce
- The present use, occasion, or time.
- Nonplus
- A condition of perplexity in which one is unable to go, speak, or act further.
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- Peak
- To become sickly; waste away; droop.
- Periphrasis
- The use of many words where one or a few would do; roundabout way of speaking or writing.
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- Pine
- 1 To waste away through grief, pain, longing, etc. 2 To have an intense longing or desire; yearn: with for, after, or an infinitive.
- Prosopopoeia
- 1A figure in which an absent, dead, or imaginary person is repesented as speaking. 2 A figure of speech in which a thing, quality, or idea is represented as a person.
- Protean
- Very changeable; readily taking on different shapes and forms.
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- Recapitulate
- To repeat briefly, as in an outline; summarize.
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- Shallop
- Any of various earlier small open boats fitted with oars or sails or both
- Strophe
- A stanze; especially any of the irregular divisions of a poem.
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