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A secret scheme to do something
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Qualities that are ___
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A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds
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Passing reference or indirect mention
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A figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally
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Using words that imitate the sound they denote
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A conceptual separation or distinction
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A message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events
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The highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding
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Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
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Serving to expound or set forth
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Intended or having the power to induce action or belief
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An arbitrary sign that has acquired a conventional significance
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A mental position from which things are ___
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The ability to form mental ___ of things or events
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A statement that contradicts itself
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