The death of poetry

vocabulary revision

WARNING many lists are of dubious usefulness. Vocabulary should be learnt in context. What follows is just a quick revision list and is no substitute for careful dictionary work and your own notetaking.

Match the key words with their definitions:

1. consensus
2. pin-up
3. culprit
4. marvel
5. conducive
6. shiver
7. bleak
8. cease
9. rot
10. graveyard

a. to look at and be amazed
b. poster
c. helping to cause something
d. when everyone agrees
e. to shake because you are cold
f. the person who is to blame
g. to stop
h. unpleasant and unlikely to improve
i. cemetery
j. to decay, decompose



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