Poet X - Vocab. Part 2

call forth, as an emotion, feeling, or response

• elicit

• penance

• piety

• stoop

having an exaggerated sense of self-importance

• blare

• blasphemous

• conceited

• hail

grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred

• bodega

• piety

• confirmation

• blasphemous

a formal religious ceremony conferring a specific grace

• confirmation

• sacrament

• heathen

• piety

small porch or set of steps at the front entrance of a house

• barrio

• stoop

• bodega

• heathen

three people or things considered as a unit

• tricycle

• trinity

• ode

• penance

voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for something

• ode

• heathen

• blasphemous

• penance

a restraint that confines or restricts freedom

• shackle

• bodega

• barrio

• resent

a lyric poem with complex stanza forms

• simile

• ode

• hail

• stoop

small shop selling groceries, especially in a Hispanic area

• barrio

• incense

• bodega

• resent