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Unit One, Cluster One Vocab

Learn to characterize your writing with precision using different tools and techniques. Understand how to depict intensity, lucidity, obscurity, and pathos in your narratives, gaining a new perspective on storytelling.

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Unit One, Cluster One Vocab

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  1. Unit One, Cluster OneVocab By Ms. Shive

  2. characterize • to mark or distinguish as a characteristic; be a characteristic of • He characterized her in a few well-chosen words.

  3. intensity • great energy, strength, concentration, vehemence • He went at the job with great intensity.

  4. lucid • characterized by clear perception or understanding; rational or sane • There was a lucid moment in his madness.

  5. obscure • indistinct to the sight or any other sense; not readily seen, heard, etc.; faint • She felt embarrassed by her braces, so she tried to obscure them when she smiled.

  6. pathetic • causing or evoking pity, sympathetic sadness, sorrow, etc.; pitiful; pitiable • After walking home from school in the rain with no umbrella, he was a pathetic sight.

  7. perspective • the state of existing in space before the eye • The elevations look all right, but the building's composition is a failure in perspective.

  8. pretense • pretending  or feigning; make-believe • My sleepiness was all pretense.

  9. stigmatize • to set some mark of disgrace or infamy upon • The crime of the father stigmatized the whole family.

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