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| 14505220500 | Aberration | something that differs from the norm | 0 | |
| 14505221048 | Aesthetic | a set of principles underlying and guiding the work of a particular artist or artistic movement | 1 | |
| 14505225591 | Ambiguous | open to more than one interpretation | 2 | |
| 14505228154 | Arbitrary | based on random choice or personal whim, rather than any reason or system | 3 | |
| 14505229554 | Ambivilant | having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone | 4 | |
| 14505231252 | Archaic | ancient; old-fashioned | 5 | |
| 14505237123 | Ascribe | to assign or refer to (as a cause or source), attribute | 6 | |
| 14505232726 | Artiface | a clever trick | 7 | |
| 14505238196 | Astute | shrewd; clever | 8 | |
| 14505284440 | Bourgeois | of or characteristic of the middle class, typically with reference to its perceived materialistic values or conventional attitudes | 9 | |
| 14505288790 | Bureaucratic | overly concerned with procedure at the expense of efficiency or common sense | 10 | |
| 14505308125 | Certitude | absolute certainty or conviction that something is the case | 11 | |
| 14505310242 | Chastise | rebuke or reprimand severely | 12 | |
| 14505313103 | Circumspect | wary and unwilling to take risks | 13 | |
| 14505315647 | Colloquial | used in ordinary or familiar conversation; not formal or literary | 14 | |
| 14505316495 | Compunction | a feeling of guilt or moral scruple that prevents or follows the doing of something bad | 15 | |
| 14505318285 | Conciliatory | intended or likely to placate or pacify | 16 | |
| 14505320430 | Condone | accept and allow (behavior that is considered morally wrong or offensive) to continue | 17 | |
| 14505322213 | Conjecture | an opinion or conclusion formed on the basis of incomplete information | 18 | |
| 14505327242 | Contentious | causing or likely to cause an argument; controversial | 19 | |
| 14505329730 | Contingent | subject to chance | 20 | |
| 14505331729 | Contrived | deliberately created rather than arising naturally or spontaneously | 21 | |
| 14653494296 | Convoluted | intricate and complicated | 22 | |
| 14653495902 | Declamatory | impassioned in expression | 23 | |
| 14653533254 | Decry | to condemn, express strong disapproval; to officially depreciate | 24 | |
| 14653535497 | Didactic | instructive | 25 | |
| 14653675883 | Digression | a temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing | 26 | |
| 14653677521 | Discursive | rambling | 27 | |
| 14653685149 | Disillusion | to disappoint someone by breaking his or her belief in a false ideal | 28 | |
| 14653689304 | Disparage | belittle | 29 | |
| 14653689940 | Disparate | fundamentally different; entirely unlike | 30 | |
| 14653691474 | Disseminate | to scatter or spread widely | 31 | |
| 14653692622 | Dogmatic | stubbornly opinionated | 32 | |
| 14653694426 | Effusive | emotionally excessive; overly demonstrative | 33 | |
| 14653695317 | Elicit | to draw forth, bring out from some source | 34 | |
| 14653696403 | Emphatic | forcibly expressive | 35 | |
| 14653697986 | Empirical | based on observation or experiment | 36 | |
| 14653707160 | Engenders | to produce or give rise to | 37 | |
| 14653718399 | Ephemeral | short-lived | 38 | |
| 14653718945 | Equanimity | calmness, composure, refusal to panic | 39 | |
| 14653720491 | Euphemism | an inoffensive expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensive | 40 | |
| 14653721666 | Fastidious | difficult to please | 41 | |
| 14653722957 | Genial | friendly and cheerful | 42 | |
| 14653729312 | Heuristic | a simple thinking strategy that often allows us to make judgments and solve problems efficiently; usually speedier but also more error-prone than algorithms | 43 | |
| 14653735198 | Idiosyncratic | peculiar to one person; highly individualized | 44 | |
| 14653736584 | Impetuous | impulsive | 45 | |
| 14653737276 | Ingratiate | to gain favor by flattery or false friendliness | 46 | |
| 14653739725 | Innate | existing from birth, inborn | 47 | |
| 14653740630 | Innocous | harmless | 48 | |
| 14653741502 | Inscrutable | impossible to understand or interpret | 49 | |
| 14653743483 | Insuler | limited in knowledge or power | 50 | |
| 14653745951 | Introspective | contemplating one's own thoughts and feelings | 51 | |
| 14653747856 | Laudatory | expressing praise | 52 | |
| 14653748565 | Magnanimous | generous in forgiving, above small meanness | 53 | |
| 14653749442 | Morose | gloomy | 54 | |
| 14653751283 | Negations | a negative statement; a statement that is a refusal or denial of some other statement or a proposition that is true if and only if another proposition is false. | 55 | |
| 14653753448 | Nomenclature | a system of naming, especially in the arts or sciences | 56 | |
| 14653755283 | Obsolete | out-of-date, no longer in use | 57 | |
| 14653756180 | Omnipotent | almighty, having unlimited power or authority | 58 | |
| 14653757217 | Paucity | scarcity | 59 | |
| 14653758832 | Pedantic | excessively concerned with book learning and formal rules | 60 | |
| 14653761760 | Polemical | causing debate or argument | 61 | |
| 14653764748 | Pragmatic | practical, as opposed to idealistic | 62 | |
| 14653767608 | Propagate | to multiply, spread out | 63 | |
| 14653768711 | Propriety | the quality of behaving in a proper manner; obeying rules and customs | 64 | |
| 14653769580 | Prowess | superior skill or ability | 65 | |
| 14653771491 | Restitution | payment for an injury; compensation | 66 | |
| 14653772711 | Sardonic | grimly or scornfully mocking, bitterly sarcastic | 67 | |
| 14653773888 | Self-effacing | not drawing attention to oneself; modest | 68 | |
| 14653774382 | Staccato | detached or disconnected in sound or style | 69 | |
| 14653777559 | Strident | loud and harsh | 70 | |
| 14653778149 | Substantive | having substance; real; essential; solid; substantial | 71 | |
| 14653780333 | Superficial | near the surface | 72 | |
| 14653942408 | Taxanomy | the scientific study of how living things are classified | 73 | |
| 14653983138 | Transgression | a violation of a law, command, or duty | 74 | |
| 14653984620 | Undermined | damaged; attacked | 75 | |
| 14653984621 | Underscore | to emphasize | 76 | |
| 14654377151 | Unpretentious | modest | 77 | |
| 14654377966 | Unrequited | not reciprocal; not given in payment or returned in kind | 78 | |
| 14654378702 | Veracity | truthfulness | 79 | |
| 14654379312 | Verbosity | using too many words | 80 | |
| 14654380034 | Allegory | A literary work in which characters, objects, or actions represent abstractions | 81 | |
| 14654381012 | Allusion | a reference to another work of literature, person, or event | 82 | |
| 14654382058 | Ambiguity | The multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage | 83 | |
| 14654382521 | Anaphora | the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses | 84 | |
| 14654384029 | Antecedent | he word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun | 85 | |
| 14654384755 | Antithesis | the direct opposite, a sharp contrast | 86 | |
| 14654385279 | Aphorism | a brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life | 87 | |
| 14654386123 | Concession | a reluctant acknowledgment or yielding | 88 | |
| 14654387894 | Dangling Participle | a participle intended to modify a noun that is not actually present in the text | 89 | |
| 14654388754 | Decorum | proper behavior | 90 | |
| 14654390416 | Enumeration | listing items in order | 91 | |
| 14654393093 | Homily | This term literally means "sermon," but more informally, it can include any serious talk, speech, or lecture involving moral or spiritual advice | 92 | |
| 14654395125 | Inductive | a form of logical argumentation that requires the use of examples | 93 | |
| 14654396477 | Interrogotive | question | 94 | |
| 14654397255 | Metonymy | a figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it | 95 | |
| 14654397949 | Oxymoron | conjoining contradictory terms | 96 | |
| 14654399354 | Paradox | a statement that seems contradictory but is actually true | 97 | |
| 14654401328 | Parallelism | similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses | 98 | |
| 14654401970 | Refute | disprove | 99 | |
| 14654403733 | Rhetorical Modes | exposition, description, narration, argumentation | 100 | |
| 14654404477 | Syllogism | a form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion | 101 | |
| 14654406100 | Synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa | 102 | |
| 14654407018 | Theorem | a statement that can be proven | 103 | |
| 14654407833 | Heresay | an opinion different from accepted belief | 104 | |
| 14654408511 | Ethos | ethical appeal | 105 | |
| 14654410033 | Pathos | appeal to emotion | 106 | |
| 14654410893 | Logos | appeal to logic | 107 |
