Friday, January 18, 2019

Vocabulary Quiz

Contentious: causing or likely to cause an argument; controversial

Apostrophe: a figure of speech represented by an exclamation

Paradox: absurd or self-contradictory state that may be true

Anaphora: repetition of a word or phrase successively

Dearth: a lack of something

Incongruous: not in harmony or keeping with the surroundings

Opulence: ostentatiously rich and luxurious or lavish

Superficiality: existing or occurring at or on the surface

Enjambment: continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line

Lament: a passionate expression of grief or sorrow

The lament of mourning crowd has the possibility of being contentious. Their speech could be filled with paradoxes and incongruous statements that astonish others. Their dearth of containment and unrestrained anaphoras are responded only by swift apostrophes. Their appearance displayed superficial opulence, but their words were anything but, every enjambment making their words cluttered and sentences befuddling.

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