Unit 3 Vocab - Romanticism and Transcendentalism

The student's _____ behavior landed him in detention.

• perturb

• usurer

• abject

• occult

The author used a brief _____ about his childhood to tap into the audience's emotions.

• anecdote

• misgiving

• transgress

• satire

Many children seem to have a(n) _____ or dislike to eating their vegetables.

• tone

• aversion

• exhilaration

• persecution

My mom tries to serve as a(n) _____ to stop grandpa from saying all his crazy, insensitive remarks at Christmas dinner.

• specter

• usurer

• nonconformist

• censurer

The students were open and _____ to not having to write an essay on their latest novel.

• congenial

• perturbed

• ostentatious

• speculating

Many male celebrities are finally getting into trouble for their bad _____ toward women as part of the growing #MeToo movement.

• adject

• decorum

• impetuous

• propitious

The politician left his answer _____ or intentionally vague so that he could play both sides of the political aisle.

• abjectly

• speculatingly

• impetuously

• deliberately

-er, -or, -ist

• a person who

• thoroughly

• to look at; to see beyond

• with, together

A snow day brings every student a sense of joy and _____.

• exhilaration

• speculating

• transgression

• persecution

words that makes abstract ideas more appealing or easier to grasp (usually by using a comparison)

• transcendentalism

• theme

• figurative langauge

• imagery