NWEA Vocabulary Week 1

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Condition of being too full

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surefit

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very hot and dry

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torrid

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plentiful

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abundant

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a particular preference or point of view that is personal rather than scientific

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bias

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a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem

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stanza

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able to recover quickly

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resilient

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The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning.

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irony

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a simple story that illustrates a moral or religious lesson

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parable

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a slanting font used to emphasize a word or phrase

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italicize

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a generalized belief about a group of people

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stereotype