Unit 5

Clergy – a group of people who ha e been formally appointed to religious service

Repository – a place where things are stored

Necessity – needed; something necessary

Illuminated – decorated with gold

Paraphernalia - equipment

Preliminary – preparatory; before the main step

Scribe – someone who copies written documents

Transcribe – to write or type a copy of

Gild – to cover with gold

Notable – worthy of notice

Connotation – what a word suggests in addition to its exact meaning

Appositive – an explanatory phrase

Notation – a short written note, comment, or explanation

Denote – indicated; meant or represented

Ascribe – to regard something as belonging to a particular cause or source; to credit

Proposal – a plan put forward for consideration

Circumscribe – surrounded or encircled

Expose – a story that makes wrongdoing known

Proscribe – to forbid; to prohibit

Annotation – a written explanatory note or comment

Misnomer – an incorrect or ill-fitting name

Satire – a type of humor that attacks or makes fun of human faults or foolishness

Personify – to show or regard something as having qualities of a living being

Syntax – the way words are put together to make phrases and sentences

Hyperbole – an exaggeration

Derive – came from a source; originated

Context – the part of a sentence that surrounds a word and helps to make its meaning clear

Cliché – overused expression

Metaphor – a figure of speech in which a word or object is compared with another to show

the similarity

Oxymoron – expressions combining words that contradict each other.