Unit 2 Vocabulary Practice

necessary to the completeness of a whole

• fundamentals

• integral

• taut

• rigor

determined

• somber

• maturity

• utmost

• resolute

the ability or strength to last

• taut

• resolute

• endurance

• maturity

drawn tight

• utmost

• taut

• context

• resolute

dark and dull, as in a color

• somber

• integral

• leisurely

• utmost

of the greatest or highest degree

• leisurley

• utmost

• somber

• fundamentals

used for descriptive effect, often to illustrate or imply ideas indirectly

• simile

• figure of speech

• personification

• metaphor

uses the words like or as to compare two seemingly unlike things

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

• figurative language

essential parts

• integral

• fundamentals

• maturity

• leisurely

full development

• leisurely

• somber

• maturity

• utmost