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English Vocabulary · Grade 11 Live Review Preview

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.

This independently authored 800-word beta curriculum is arranged in twenty-three pages of up to thirty-five words. Pages containing words 1–500 include five cloze questions drawn only from that enhanced range; words 501–800 remain fully visible and editable as list pages while expanded practice is developed. Every row includes an editable subject-field label and a conservative word-study note about transparent affixes, compound structure, capitalization, or dictionary base forms. The cited sources calibrate range and difficulty only; all learner-facing definitions, examples, quizzes, and descriptions are original KSSR copy.

Please note: the vocabulary lists for grades 9~11 have been selected to ensure no overlap with the previous grade level. If the words are too specialized or difficult for you, please go back to grade levels 4~8 and review the words on those pages.

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141closet dramanoun
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Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term

Word study: Term structure: closet + drama. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.

1. 독서극 2. 서재극The closet drama uses scenes too vast for an ordinary stage.
142comedy of mannersnoun
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Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term

Word study: Term structure: comedy + of + manners. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.

매너의 코미디The comedy of manners exposes hypocrisy through elegant dinner conversation.
143revenge tragedynoun
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Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term

Word study: Term structure: revenge + tragedy. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.

복수의 비극In the revenge tragedy, each act of vengeance creates another victim.
144tragicomedynoun
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Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term

Word study: Base-form focus: tragicomedy is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.

희비극The tragicomedy moves from a threatened execution to an awkward reunion.
145melodramanoun
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Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term

Word study: Base-form focus: melodrama is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.

1. 멜로드라마 2. 멜로The rescue scene becomes melodrama when the villain announces every cruel intention.
146addresseenoun
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Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term

Word study: Base-form focus: addressee is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.

1. 수신인(受信人) 2. 수취인(受取人)The poem's addressee is an absent friend who never answers.
147masculine rhymenoun
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Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term

Word study: Term structure: masculine + rhyme. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.

남성 운율“Defend” and “amend” create a masculine rhyme.
148feminine rhymenoun
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Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term

Word study: Term structure: feminine + rhyme. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.

여성 운율“Duty” and “beauty” form a feminine rhyme.
149metrical footnoun
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Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term

Word study: Term structure: metrical + foot. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.

미터법 피트The line's metrical foot alternates an unstressed syllable with a stressed one.
150tetrameternoun
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Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term

Word study: Base-form focus: tetrameter is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.

사보격The ballad's tetrameter gives each long line four strong beats.
151trimeternoun
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Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term

Word study: Base-form focus: trimeter is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.

삼보격The shorter trimeter line quickens the stanza.
152hexameternoun
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Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term

Word study: Base-form focus: hexameter is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.

육보격The epic's hexameter gives the narration a broad, formal rhythm.
153alexandrinenoun
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Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term

Word study: Base-form focus: alexandrine is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.

알렉산드린The closing alexandrine slows the poem with a central pause.
154accentual versenoun
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Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term

Word study: Term structure: accentual + verse. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.

1. 강세시 2. 강세 운문The accentual verse keeps four beats even when line length changes.
155syllabic versenoun
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Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term

Word study: Term structure: syllabic + verse. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.

1. 음절시 2. 음절 운문Each line of the syllabic verse contains exactly seven syllables.
156accentual-syllabic versenoun
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Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term

Word study: Term structure: accentual + syllabic + verse. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.

1. 강세-음절시 2. 강세 음절 운문The sonnet's accentual-syllabic verse follows a regular sequence of ten syllables.
157nonce formnoun
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Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term

Word study: Term structure: nonce + form. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.

1. 일회성 시형 2. 특별히 창작한 시 형식The poet created a nonce form with nine lines and an original rhyme pattern.
158prosopopoeianoun
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Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term

Word study: Base-form focus: prosopopoeia is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.

의인법Through prosopopoeia, the ruined city addresses its former residents.
159aposiopesisnoun
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Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term

Word study: Base-form focus: aposiopesis is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.

1. 돈절법 2. 말끝 흐리기The dash marks aposiopesis when the witness cannot finish the threat.
160polyptotonnoun
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Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term

Word study: Base-form focus: polyptoton is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.

폴립토톤“The judge must judge justly” uses polyptoton.
161isocolonnoun
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Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term

Word study: Base-form focus: isocolon is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.

아이소콜론The slogan's isocolon balances “we came to learn” with “we stayed to serve.”
162parataxisnoun
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Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term

Word study: Base-form focus: parataxis is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.

병렬Parataxis gives the passage a blunt rhythm: “Rain fell. Roads closed. We waited.”
163hypotaxisnoun
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Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term

Word study: Base-form focus: hypotaxis is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.

1. 종속법 2. 종속적 문장 배열Hypotaxis lets the sentence distinguish causes, conditions, and consequences.
164appositivenoun
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Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term

Word study: Base-form focus: appositive is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.

1. 동격어 2. 동격구In “Mae Jemison, an engineer and astronaut, spoke,” the appositive adds information.
165syntactic inversionnoun
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Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term

Word study: Term structure: syntactic + inversion. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.

구문 반전“Into the harbor sailed the ship” uses syntactic inversion.
166paralipsisnoun
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Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term

Word study: Base-form focus: paralipsis is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.

1. 묵과법 2. 생략 강조법“I will not discuss his three missed deadlines” is paralipsis.
167discourse communitynoun
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Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term

Word study: Term structure: discourse + community. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.

담론 공동체Medical researchers form a discourse community with established genres and terms.
168presuppositionnoun
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Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term

Word study: Suffix focus: -ition commonly forms a noun naming an action, process, or result.

전제“She stopped commuting” carries the presupposition that she once commuted.
169implicaturenoun
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Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term

Word study: Base-form focus: implicature is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.

1. 함축 2. 대화 함축“Some essays were clear” may carry the implicature that others were not.
170corpus linguisticsnoun
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Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term

Word study: Term structure: corpus + linguistics. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.

코퍼스 언어학Corpus linguistics showed that the phrase became common after 1990.
171lingua francanoun
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Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term

Word study: Term structure: lingua + franca. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.

1. 공통어 2. 링구아 프랑카Swahili serves as a lingua franca across several East African communities.
172pidginnoun
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Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term

Word study: Base-form focus: pidgin is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.

피진A trade pidgin emerged among sailors who lacked a common language.
173creolenoun
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Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term

Word study: Base-form focus: creole is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.

크리올Children acquired the creole as a complete first language.
174etymonnoun
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Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term

Word study: Base-form focus: etymon is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.

에티몬The Latin etymon helps explain the English word's spelling.
175loanwordnoun
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Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term

Word study: Base-form focus: loanword is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.

1. 외래어(外來語) 2. 차용어(借用語) 3. 외래어“Piano” entered English as a loanword from Italian.

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