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Vocabulary for English test
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- 1inhospitabledifficult to stay or live in, especially because there is no shelter from the weather. Mars is inhospitable.
- 2convivialfriendly, lively, and enjoyable. Tatiana is a convivial person at school.
- 3placidcalm and peaceful, with very little movement. The lake is calm and placid.
- 4gullibletoo willing to believe or accept what other people tell you and therefore easily tricked. My sister is so gullible that she believe's me.
- 5autonomoushaving the freedom to govern itself or control its own affairs. Japan is a autonomous country.
- 6onomatopoeiaThe formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named. Example: pop
- 7cosonanceAgreement or compatibility between opinions or actions. Example: lazy lime.
- 8assonanceResemblance of sound between syllables of nearby words, arising particularly from the rhyming of two or more stressed vowels, but not consonants. Example: killed, cold.
- 9metaphorA figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable. Example: Her ear was a silk.
- 10alliterationThe occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected word. Example: Miskey mountains.
- 11simileA figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid. Example: She was sitting like a stone.
- 12personificationThe attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something non-human, or the representation of an abstract quality in human for. Example: The fridge is standing in the corner.
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