- Adumbrate: foreshadow OR overshadow OR indicate faintly OR represent in outline
- Agalma: (rare) an image, representation, or emblem; specifically the image on a seal
- Calumniate: Make false and defamatory statements about
- Catachresis: the use of a word in an incorrect way, for example the use of mitigate for militate
- Chthonic: relating to or inhabiting the underworld
- Contention: heated disagreement OR an assertion, especially one maintained in argument
- Contrition: the state of feeling remorseful and penitent OR (in the Roman Catholic Church) the repentance of past sins during or after confession
- Cozen: (literary) trick or deceive OR obtain by deception
- Demotic: Denoting or relating to the kind of language used by ordinary people; colloquial OR Relating to or denoting the form of modern Greek used in everyday speech and writing (katharevousa) OR relating to or denoting a simplified, cursive form of ancient Egyptian script, dating from c. 650 BC and replaced by Greek in the Ptolemaic period (hieratic) OR ordinary colloquial speech OR demotic Greek OR demotic Egyptian script
- Diatribe: A forceful and bitter verbal attack against someone or something
- Diffident: modest or shy because of lack of self-confidence
- Epideictic: characterised by or designed to display rhetorical or oratorical skill
- Ekphrasis/ecphrasis: The use of detailed description of a work of visual art as a literary device
- Facetious: treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humour; flippant
- Histrionic: Excessively theatrical or dramatic in character or style OR of or concerning actors or acting OR denoting a personality disorder marked by shallow volatile emotions and attention-seeking behaviour
- Iconoclasm: the action of attacking or assertively rejecting cherished beliefs and institutions or established values and practices OR the rejection or destruction of religious images as heretical; the doctrine of iconoclasts
- Ineffable: too great or extreme to be expressed or described in words OR not to be uttered
- Ineluctable: unable to be resisted or avoided; inescapable
- Imprecation: (formal) a spoken curse
- Invective: insulting, abusive or highly critical language
- Licentious: promiscuous and unprincipled in sexual matters
- Oneiric: (formal) relating to dreams or dreaming
- Pallid: (of a person’s face) pale, typically because of poor health OR lacking vigour or intensity; insipid
- Prosopopoeia: a figure of speech in which an abstract thing is personified OR a figure of speech in which an imagined, absent, or dead person or thing is represented as speaking.
- Renege: revoke OR go back on a promise, undertaking or contract
- Sibylline: relating to or characteristic of a sybil; prophetic and mysterious
- Sparagmos: The dismemberment of a victim, forming a part of some ancient rituals and represented in Greek myths and tragedies.
- Thanatology: the scientific study of death and the practices associated with it, including the study of the needs of the terminally ill and their families
- Thraldom: the state of being in someone’s power
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