Vocabulary Quiz

1) Lament- a passionate expression of grief and sorrow

2) Apostrophe- when a speaker breaks off from addressing one party and instead addresses a third party

3) Anaphora- repetition of a certain word or phrase at the beginning of successive lines of writing or speech

4) Dearth- a scarcity or lack of something

5) Enjambent- the continuation of a sentence without a phrase beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza

6) Opulence- great wealth of luxuriou ness

7) Catastrophes- an event causing great and often sudden damage or suffering; a disaster

8) Obsolete- no longer produced or used; out of date

9) Deprivation- the damaging lack of material benefits considered to be basic necessities in a society

10) Incongruous- not in harmony



The girl was lamented by her large circle of friends due to the dearth of her social skills. She felt as though she was incongruous with the other girls. Every time she would try to communicate with the other girls they would dismiss like an apostrophe in a sentence. The only reason why the girls wanted to be her friend was because of her opulence. Once her luxuries was gone she felt obsolete. This caused her to have sleep deprivation. The girl felt as though her life was full of catastrophes. So she started getting into writing poems and she was famous for her good enjambents and anaphoras.