12th Grade Vocabulary

ornate

• logical

• fancy

• balance

• mysterious, puzzling

conviction

• Amazement

• a steep cliff

• calm

• belief

malicious

• a steep cliff

• having a desire to cause harm

• amazing

• dried up and decaying

assertion

• claim

• calm

• unimportant

• sad

oxymoron

• calm

• The occurrence of the same letter or sound in a sentence

• figure of speech that combines contradictory words

• To call up

writhing

• change

• image

• Twist and squirm

• a group

Evoke

• logical

• bad intent

• balance

• To call up; to start

surmise

• feelings, emotions

• to suppose

• fancy

• not important

Tyranny

• walk lightly

• cruel, oppressive

• swerve

• tired, worn out

parched

• reassure

• thirsty

• self punishment

• intense