Vocabulary Lists

Vocabulary from “Casey at the Bat” by Ernest Lawrence Thayer (1888)

umpire

let drive

spheroid

batsman

straggle

doff

muffle

bat

hurtle

pitcher

writhe

unheeded

maddened

inning

whack

rumble

fraud

sneer

lulu

straggling

barrow

awed

dell

scornful

precede

visage

strike out

muffled

recoil

clenched

clench

stern

haughty

shattered

grandeur

defiance

shatter

awe

stricken

patron

sphere

strike

bench

melancholy

charity

gleam

eternal

ease

cruel

violence

despair

brilliant

cheer

strain

plate

The Top 90 Terms to help you Comprehend the Declaration of Independence

unalienable

constrain

usurpation

King of Great Britain

abolish

consanguinity

suspend

impel

abdicate

naturalization

sufferance

dissolve

ravage

absolve

inhabitant

assent

endow

evince

harass

acquiesce

perfidy

rectitude

colony

altering

mercenary

establish

magnanimity

declare

endeavor

tyrant

emigration

appropriation

plundered

jurisdiction

tyranny

tenure

despotism

reliance

independent

transport

assemble

legislative

compliance

levy

migration

deprive

derive

absolute

plunder

consent

justice

arbitrary

brethren

impose

barbarous

allegiance

law

representative

kindred

render

inevitably

captive

government

prudence

fatigue

invariably

appeal

formidable

frontier

representation

trial

declaration

jury

multitude

Britain

legislation

citizen

pursuit

equal

humble

foundation

domestic

sacred

nation

civil

administration

liberty

bear

military

arms

Nutrition Vocabulary Words

understanding

process

healthy

maintain

energy

reproduction

calorific

calorie

joule

requirement

male

active

manual

office

sedentary

disease

repair

tissue

temperature

climate

energetic

function

indulge

ailment

sufficient

protein

carbohydrate

vitamin

malnutrition

scurvy

rickets

lethargic

deficiency

swollen

vision

disorder

weigh

victim

obesity

excess

abdomen

limb

self-esteem

cholesterol

diabetes

sugar

luxury

debilitating

accumulation

artery

lifestyle

The Odyssey Vocabulary Words

baleful

bane

bared

becalmed

benefaction

berth

bleat

bower

brazen

buffeted

cache

caveat

chaffer

citadel

clamber

colonnade

concubine

consort

conspicuous

coverlet

crag

dale

dalliance

deliberation

diachronic

diatribe

dire

disconsolate

doting

eddy

evince

exanimate

expedient

feign

fettle

filigree

fir

gullet

hawser

hearth

hecatomb

hyacinth

imperious

impertinence

inveigle

kine

larder

launder

laurel

limpid

lout

marshall

mendicant

mete

minstrel

nape

nimble

numinous

nymph

ordain

palestra

palisade

pang

parley

patrimony

pensive

petrel

pigsty

pinioned

promontory

prow

rampart

rapt

repose

rue

ruffian

saunter

saurian

scant

scourge

seethe

sequester

serried

sinew

singe

snare

sojourn

spume

stout

suave

superficial

tarry

thralldom

till

timorous

travail

tread

vagabond

vat

vex

vintner

vista

votive

whinny

withy

woe

incensed

Literary Terms Vocabulary Words

ad hominem

alliteration

anaphora

anastrophe

antithesis

apostrophe

apposition

archaism

assonance

asyndeton

bathos

cacophony

chiasmus

colloquialism

dialectic

discourse

epigraph

epithet

eponym

eristic

euphemism

euphony

hyperbole

hypothesis

invective

irony

jargon

litotes

maxim

metaphor

metonymy

non sequitur

onomatopoeia

oxymoron

paradox

parallelism

parenthesis

parody

personification

pleonasm

rebuttal

repetition

simile

syllogism

synecdoche

tautology

thesis

trope

understatement

zeugma

alliteration

allusion

ambiguity

analogy

apostrophe

caricature

cliche

contradiction

flashback

foreshadowing

hyperbole

irony

juxtaposition

metaphor

oxymoron

paradox

parody

personification

pun

repetition

sarcasm

satire

simile

symbolism

understatement

allegory

alliteration

allusion

ambiguity

anachronism

analogy

anaphora

anticlimax

antithesis

aphorism

apostrophe

apposition

archaism

assonance

asyndeton

bathos

caricature

catharsis

chiasmus

circumlocution

cliche

consonance

contradiction

deus ex machina

double entendre

elision

ellipsis

encomium

epigraph

euphemism

flashback

foreshadowing

hyperbole

inversion

irony

juxtaposition

litotes

metaphor

metonymy

mimesis

neologism

non sequitur

onomatopoeia

oxymoron

paradox

parody

personification

pleonasm

pun

repetition

sarcasm

satire

simile

symbolism

synecdoche

trope

understatement

verisimilitude

zeugma

alliteration

allusion

anaphora

apostrophe

assonance

chiasmus

conceit

connotation

consonance

denotation

enjambment

envoy

hyperbole

invocation

irony

litotes

metaphor

metonymy

motif

onomatopoeia

oxymoron

paradox

parody

pastiche

pathetic fallacy

persona

personification

repetition

rhyme

simile

symbolism

synecdoche

tone

trope

zeugma

anapest

blank verse

canto

couplet

dactyl

enjambment

foot

free verse

hexameter

iamb

iambic

meter

octave

pentameter

quatrain

refrain

scan

scansion

sestet

spondee

stanza

stress

terza rima

tetrameter

trochee

ballad

chanson de geste

dirge

doggerel

eclogue

elegy

epic

epithalamium

free verse

haiku

hymn

idyll

lament

lay

limerick

lyric

madrigal

ode

panegyric

pastoral

prose poem

rondeau

sonnet

tanka

autobiography

ballad

biography

comedy

drama

dystopia

epic

essay

fable

fantasy

folklore

folktale

haiku

memoir

mystery

myth

novel

novella

ode

poetry

sonnet

thriller

tragedy

utopia

apocalyptic

autobiography

ballad

bildungsroman

biography

comedy

drama

dystopia

elegy

epic

epistolary

epitaph

essay

fable

fantasy

farce

folklore

folktale

gothic

haiku

homily

lyric

melodrama

memoir

mystery

myth

novel

novella

ode

parable

parody

pastoral

picaresque

poetry

romance

satire

sonnet

thriller

tragedy

utopia

adaptation

agitprop

antagonist

aside

catharsis

chorus

comedy

conflict

denouement

deus ex machina

dialogue

dramatic irony

dramaturgy

ensemble

entr’acte

farce

foil

genre

hamartia

hubris

melodrama

monologue

naturalistic

pantomime

peripeteia

plot

prologue

proscenium

protagonist

scene

setting

soliloquy

tableau

thespian

tragedy