vocabulary: fall list #1

theme: the central message.
tone: the author's attitude towards the characters, the topic, and audience.
mood: a state or quality of feeling at a particular time.
diction: the words the author uses to tell a story.
syntax: the study of the rules for the formation in sentences.

stupid: lacking ordinary quickness and keenness of the mind.
adumbrate: report or represent in outline.
apotheosis: the highest point in the development of something.
ascetic: practice of self-discipline and abstention.
bauble: a showy, usually cheap, ornament.
beguile: charm or enchant(someone).
burgeon: begin to grow or increase rapidly.
complement: a thing that completes or brings to perfection.
contumacious: stubbornly or willfully.
curmudgeon: a bad-tempered or surly person.
didactic: intended to teach.

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