Question 1

all the time: always

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invariably

Question 2

cause (something) to go away

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dispel

Question 3

people fleeing from danger

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fugitives

Question 4

rebellious

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mutinous

Question 5

something that makes a person take action

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incentive

Question 6

bare and windswept; cold and harsh

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bleak

Question 7

Old English suffix meaning used to create adverbs that describe how, when, or how often something is done.

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ly

Question 8

officially approved

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authorized

Question 9

without an indication of the author's or creator's name

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anonymously

Question 10

standards by which something can be judged

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criteria

Question 11

vividly expressive

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eloquent

Question 12

combined in a pleasing arrangement

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harmonious

Question 13

in complete agreement

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unanimous

Question 14

Greek root meaning name

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nym

Question 15

leading to improvement

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constructive

Question 16

spreading throughout

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pervading

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distracts; amuses

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diverts

Question 18

of little importance

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trivial

Question 19

without resistance

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passively

Question 20

with doubt and distrust

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skeptically

Question 21

Latin root meaning to go

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vad

Question 22

Latin root meaning to go

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vas

Question 23

triumphantly

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exultantly

Question 24

rays of energy

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radiation

Question 25

filled with wonder

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awed

Question 26

imaginable

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conceivable

Question 27

sudden, violent event that causes change

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cataclysm

Question 28

the act of becoming smaller

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contraction

Question 29

Latin root meaning pull or drag

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tract

Question 30

A comparison of two unlike things using like or as

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simile

Question 31

A comparison without using like or as

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metaphor

Question 32

Repetition of initial consonant sounds

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alliteration

Question 33

exaggeration

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hyperbol

Question 34

the use of words that imitate sounds

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onomatopoeia

Question 35

the giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea

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personification

Question 36

a saying, that if taken literally, makes no sense

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idiom

Question 37

language that appeals to the 5 senses

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imagery

Question 38

conjoining contradictory terms (as in 'deafening silence')

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oxymoron

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