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11th Grade Vocabulary Words

Eleventh-grade readers work across complex arguments, literary forms, scientific models, quantitative reasoning, civic institutions, social analysis, and precise academic prose. This level emphasizes disciplinary meanings, source evaluation, rhetorical and linguistic analysis, transparent morphology, and the careful use of context and reference tools when a word has several possible senses.

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Words 176–210 of 800
#	Word	Details	Meaning	Sample sentence
176	calque	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Base-form focus: calque is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.	calco	“Flea market” has produced a calque in several languages.
177	bathos	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Base-form focus: bathos is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.	bagno	The heroic speech ends in bathos when the warrior complains about his lunch.
178	heteroglossia	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Base-form focus: heteroglossia is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.	eteroglossia	The novel's heteroglossia brings official, regional, and rebellious speech into conflict.
179	dialogism	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Suffix focus: -ism often names a belief, system, movement, or practice.	dialogismo	Dialogism prevents the novel from granting one character final authority.
180	carnivalesque	adjective Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Base-form focus: carnivalesque is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.	carnevalesco	The carnivalesque festival lets servants mock their masters.
181	liminality	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Suffix focus: -ity commonly forms a noun naming a quality, state, or condition.	liminalità	The journey creates liminality as the initiate leaves childhood but has not entered adulthood.
182	paratext	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Base-form focus: paratext is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.	paratesto	The title and cover form a paratext that frames the novel as a mystery.
183	peritext	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Base-form focus: peritext is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.	peritesto	The preface and footnotes belong to the book's peritext.
184	epitext	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Base-form focus: epitext is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.	epiteto	An author's interview can function as epitext for readers of the novel.
185	textual apparatus	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Term structure: textual + apparatus. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	apparato testuale	The textual apparatus explains why the editor chose one manuscript reading.
186	variorum	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Base-form focus: variorum is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.	variorum	The variorum lists alternate lines from every surviving draft.
187	emendation	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Suffix focus: -ation commonly forms a noun naming an action, process, or result.	emendamento	The emendation restores a word blurred in the earliest printing.
188	recension	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Suffix focus: -sion commonly forms a noun naming an action, process, or result.	recensione	The northern recension includes a chapter absent from other manuscripts.
189	metalepsis	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Base-form focus: metalepsis is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.	metalepsi	Metalepsis occurs when the author suddenly argues with her own character.
190	chronotope	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Base-form focus: chronotope is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.	cronotopo	The road chronotope makes travel the setting for meetings and change.
191	polyphony	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Base-form focus: polyphony is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.	polifonia	The novel's polyphony allows each sibling to challenge the family history.
192	monoglossia	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Base-form focus: monoglossia is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.	monoglossia	The decree's monoglossia permits no alternative account of the event.
193	intermediality	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Suffix focus: -ity commonly forms a noun naming a quality, state, or condition.	intermedialità	The production's intermediality combines live theater, film, and projected text.
194	ecocriticism	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Suffix focus: -ism often names a belief, system, movement, or practice.	ecocritica	Ecocriticism reveals how the poem treats the river as more than scenery.
195	postcolonialism	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Suffix focus: -ism often names a belief, system, movement, or practice.	postcolonialismo	Postcolonialism guides the essay's analysis of imposed place names.
196	reader-response criticism	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Term structure: reader + response + criticism. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	critica della risposta del lettore	Reader-response criticism compares how two communities interpret the ending.
197	new historicism	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Term structure: new + historicism. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	nuovo storicismo	New historicism places the play beside court records and travel accounts.
198	poststructuralism	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Suffix focus: -ism often names a belief, system, movement, or practice.	poststrutturalismo	Poststructuralism draws attention to contradictions within the category of “civilized.”
199	semiotics	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Base-form focus: semiotics is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.	semiotica	Semiotics examines how color and clothing signal authority in the film.
200	signifier	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Base-form focus: signifier is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.	significante	The red light is a signifier whose meaning depends on the traffic system.
201	anatomical position	noun Study Field: Grade 11 anatomy, neuroscience, and public-health term Word study: Term structure: anatomical + position. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	posizione anatomica	In anatomical position, the palms face forward and the feet point ahead.
202	sagittal plane	noun Study Field: Grade 11 anatomy, neuroscience, and public-health term Word study: Term structure: sagittal + plane. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	piano sagittale	A sagittal plane passes from the front of the body to the back.
203	coronal plane	noun Study Field: Grade 11 anatomy, neuroscience, and public-health term Word study: Term structure: coronal + plane. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	piano coronale	The coronal plane separates anterior structures from posterior ones.
204	transverse plane	noun Study Field: Grade 11 anatomy, neuroscience, and public-health term Word study: Term structure: transverse + plane. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	piano trasversale	The scan shows a transverse plane through the abdomen.
205	proximal	adjective Study Field: Grade 11 anatomy, neuroscience, and public-health term Word study: Base-form focus: proximal is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.	prossimale	The elbow is proximal to the wrist.
206	distal	adjective Study Field: Grade 11 anatomy, neuroscience, and public-health term Word study: Base-form focus: distal is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.	distale	The fingers are distal to the shoulder.
207	medial	adjective Study Field: Grade 11 anatomy, neuroscience, and public-health term Word study: Base-form focus: medial is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.	mediano	The sternum is medial to the ribs.
208	lateral	adjective Study Field: Grade 11 anatomy, neuroscience, and public-health term Word study: Base-form focus: lateral is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.	laterale	The lungs are lateral to the heart.
209	ventral	adjective Study Field: Grade 11 anatomy, neuroscience, and public-health term Word study: Base-form focus: ventral is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.	ventrale	The ventral surface of the human body includes the chest.
210	dorsal	adjective Study Field: Grade 11 anatomy, neuroscience, and public-health term Word study: Base-form focus: dorsal is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.	dorsale	The spinal cord lies within the dorsal body cavity.

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