- despot — one who has absolute power and rules brutally (despotism: form of govt.)
- inimical — tending to cause damage or have a bad effect
- reticent — not revealing one's thoughts or feelings readily; reserved, silent, uncommunicative
- wunderkind — a wonder child; child prodigy
- deuteragonist — the person second in importance to the protagonist (very disappointed i didn't learn this in english class)
- propensity — tendency to behave a certain way
- cognizant — having knowledge of
- lexical gap — when there is no word in a language but would be expected to exist given the grammatical rules of the language
- regnant — exercising power; ruling
- obfuscate — to confuse/stupefy
- pedant — one who is obsessively concerned with minor details or invested in academic learning
- didactic — intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive
- bildungsroman — a coming-of-age story (focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from youth to adulthood, and in which, therefore, character change is extremely important)
dec 24 2011 ∞
nov 15 2014 +