Hit Parade Vocab 5
“OVERKILL”
DMA November 16th 2014
HOW WAS YOUR WEEKEND?
WRITE ABOUT YOUR
WEEKEND USING 2 SIMPLE
SENTENCES, 2 COMPLEX
SENTENCES AND 2 COMPOUND
SENTENCES.
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1. ebullience
 (Ih BOOL yuns)
 Noun (abstract)
 Def. Intense enthusiasm
 Sample sentence: A sense of ebullience swept over
the crowd when the matador defeated the bull.
2. egregious
 Uh GREE jus
 adjective
 Def. conspicuously bad or offensive
 Sample sentence: Forgetting to sterilize surgical
tools before an operation would be an egregious
error.
3. flagrant
 FLAY grant
 Adjective
 Def. extremely or deliberately shocking or noticeable
 Sample sentence: His throwing the pie at his teacher
was a flagrant sign of disrespect.
4. frenetic
 Freh NEH tik
 adjective
 Def. Wildly excited or active
 Sample sentence: The pace at the busy office was
frenetic; Megan never had a moment to catch her
breath.
5. superfluous
 Soo PER floo us
 adjective
 Def. Extra; unnecessary
 If there is sugar in your tea, adding honey would be
superfluous.
Hit Parade Vocab
“IT’S GETTING
BETTER”
1. alleviate
 Uh LEEV ee ayt
 Verb
 Def. to ease a pain or burden
 Sample sentence: John took aspirin to alleviate the
pain from the headache he got after taking the SAT.
2. asylum
 Uh SY lum
 noun
 Def. a place of retreat or security
 The soldiers sought asylum from the bombs in the
underground shelter.
3. auspicious
 Aw SPISH us
 Adjective
 Def. favorable; promising
 Sample sentence: Our trip to the beach had an
auspicious start; the rain stopped just as we started
the car.
4. benevolent
 Buh NEH vuh lunt
 Adjective
 Def. well-meaning; generous
 Sample sentence: She was a kind and benevolent
queen who was concerned about her subjects’ wellbeing.
 Malevolent - having or showing a wish or desire to
do evil to others.
5. mollify
 MAHL uh fy
 Verb
 Def. to calm or soothe
 Sample Sentence: Anna’s apology for scaring her
brother did not mollify him; he was mad at her all
day.
6. reclamation
 Rek luh MAY shun
 noun
 Def. the act of making something useful again
 Thanks to the reclamation project, the once unusable
land became a productive farm.
7. sanction
 SANK shun
 Verb
 Def. To give official authorization or approval
 Sample sentence: The students were happy when
the principal agreed to sanction the use of calculators
in math classes.
Rhetorical Devices
 1. Alliteration: repetition of consonant sounds at the
beginning of words
 “From forth the fatal loins of these two foes;
A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life.”
 (repetition of “f” sound)
Rhetorical Devices
 2. Allusion – an indirect reference to a historical
event or work of literature.
 “The Director of Secondary School Principals
admitted in 1981 that ‘schools are a puny David
without even a slingshot against the media Goliath.’”
 An allusion to the biblical story of David and Goliath.
David was a small boy who took down the giant
Goliath with a slingshot.
Rhetorical Devices
 3. analogy – an extended comparison between two
seemingly dissimilar things.
 Example:
 “Just as a sword is the weapon of a warrior, a pen is
the weapon of a writer.”
Rhetorical Device
 4. anaphora (a specific type of repetition)
 The repetition of words at the beginning of
successive clauses.
 Example:
 With malice toward none;
with charity for all;
with firmness in the right,...
— Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address
Rhetorical Device
 5. antimetabole: a repetition of words in an inverted
order to sharpen a contrast.
 “As not what your country can do for you but what
you can do for your country.” (JFK)
 “Play the game don’t let the game play you.”
(Macklemore)
Rhetorical Devices
6. Antithesis: Parallel structure that juxtaposes contrasting
ideas.
Example:
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was
the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the
epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the
season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the
spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had
everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all
going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other
way."
(Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, 1859)
Quiz on Friday
 All of this week’s words
 Types of sentences: declarative, interrogative,
exclamatory, imperative, simple, compound,
complex, periodic and cumulative (to be introduced
this week)
 Rhetorical Devices : alliteration, allusion, anaphora,
antimetabole, and antitheses.