Grammar Vocab 1

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supercilious

behaving or looking as though one thinks one is superior to others

Stoicism

(n.) indifference to pleasure or pain (adj.) stoic - seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain (syn.) impassive, unemotional

emissary

An agent sent on a mission

valediction

a bidding farewell; a leave-taking; a farewell speech

exegesis

an explanation of a text

maladroit

clumsy; unskillful

moribund

dying

magnum opus

great work

surrealistic

having a dreamlike or unreal quality

expository

intended to describe something

Protagonist

main character

ignominious

shameful

sarcophagus

stone coffin

Diction

word choice

Analects

written passages


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