English 10, Lessons #11-12

a letter or literary composition in letter form

• epistle

• hyperbole

• gadfly

• hue

enthusiastic; extremely interested

• implacable

• incisive

• ominous

• avid

an irritating and persistent person

• sycophant

• gadfly

• agrarian

• lexicon

absence of vanity; humbleness

• audacity

• grimace

• humility

• altercation

exhibiting sorrow or pain

• expedient

• pertinent

• ominous

• dolorous

of huge or extraordinary size and power

• ominous

• dolorous

• gargantuan

• arduous

difficult; requiring much effort

• arduous

• affable

• grandiloquent

• incisive

friendly; agreeable; easy to talk to

• grandiloquent

• expedient

• affable

• pertinent

pompous or high-flown in speech

• arduous

• grandiloquent

• avid

• agrarian

having to do with farms, farmers, or the use of land

• agrarian

• explicit

• pertinent

• ominous