Vocabulary for English test

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Flashcards on Vocabulary for English test, created by 19julia11 on 13/03/2014.
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inhospitable difficult to stay or live in, especially because there is no shelter from the weather. Mars is inhospitable.
convivial friendly, lively, and enjoyable. Tatiana is a convivial person at school.
placid calm and peaceful, with very little movement. The lake is calm and placid.
gullible too willing to believe or accept what other people tell you and therefore easily tricked. My sister is so gullible that she believe's me.
autonomous having the freedom to govern itself or control its own affairs. Japan is a autonomous country.
onomatopoeia The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named. Example: pop
cosonance Agreement or compatibility between opinions or actions. Example: lazy lime.
assonance Resemblance of sound between syllables of nearby words, arising particularly from the rhyming of two or more stressed vowels, but not consonants. Example: killed, cold.
metaphor A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable. Example: Her ear was a silk.
alliteration The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected word. Example: Miskey mountains.
simile A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid. Example: She was sitting like a stone.
personification The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something non-human, or the representation of an abstract quality in human for. Example: The fridge is standing in the corner.
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