Verb: DENIGRATE to cast aspersion on; to attack the reputation of; to defame "You shouldn't denigrate people just

because they have different beliefs from you."

Adjective: Pedantic - 1 : of, relating to, or being a pedant* 2 : narrowly, stodgily, and often ostentatiously learned 3 : unimaginative, pedestrian *pedant - 1 obsolete : a male schoolteacher 2 a : one who makes a show of knowledge b : one who is unimaginative or who unduly emphasizes minutiae in the presentation or use of knowledge c : a formalist or precisionist in teaching

Foreign Phrase: Latin

Ave Caesar! Morituri te salutamus. Hail Caesar! We who are about to die salute you.

(gladiators before the fight) Term- Motif: A phrase, idea or event that that through repetition serves to unify or convey a theme in a work of literature. Tolstoy, for example, repeatedly uses descriptions of nature to reflect the personality and emotions of his characters. Allusion Orpheus Ancient Greek legendary hero endowed with superhuman musical skills. According to some legends Apollo gave Orpheus his first lyre. Orpheus singing and plying were so beautiful that even trees and rocks moved about in him dance. Orpheus joined the expedition of the Argonauts, saving them from the music of the sirens by playing his own, more powerful music. On his return, he married

Eurydice who was soon killed by a snakebite. Overcome with grief, Orpheus ventured to the land of the dead to attempt to bring Eurydice back to life. His music so moved Hades, kind of the underworld, that Orpheus was allowed to take Eurydice back with him.

Hades one condition was that neither Orpheus nor Eurydice look back upon leaving the land of the dead.

The couple climbed up toward the opening into the land of the living, and Orpheus, seeing the sun again, turned back to share his delight with Eurydice. In that moment, Eurydice disappeared. Orpheus himself was later killed by the women of Thrace. Accounts of the motive and manner of his death vary, but the earliest known says that the women were Maenads urged by Dionysus to tear him to pieces in a Bacchic orgy because he preferred to worship rival god Apollo.

Root - cand- glowing, iridescent (Latin)

candid, incandescent, candle