Jackson Vocab Flashcard

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Avaricious

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Greedy

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Larder

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A supply of food or a place where food is kept

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Repetition

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The reuse of a key word or idea for emphasis

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Concubines

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Secondary wives

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Wanton

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Careless, reckless

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Satire

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Writing that ridicules people, institutions, or ideas to bring reform

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Proverb

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Short, catchy phrases that are intended to have obvious answers; asked for effect

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Feudalism

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Relating to a system based around land ownership rather than money

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Oxymoron

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A figure of speech in which contradictory terms appear in conjunction

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Metaphor

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A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without using 'like' or 'as'.