10245446821 | abase | to degrade, to humiliate | 0 | |
10245446822 | acerbic | sour, bitter, severe | 1 | |
10245447605 | brevity | briefness | 2 | |
10245447606 | bucolic | rural or rustic in nature, country like | 3 | |
10245448289 | cacophony | harsh sounds, jarring discordant sounds, dissonance | 4 | |
10245448290 | chicanery | deceitfulness, trickery | 5 | |
10245449336 | dearth | scarcity, lack | 6 | |
10245449337 | deluge | inundation, flood | 7 | |
10245449338 | ebb | To recede or diminish | 8 | |
10245450635 | ethereal | very light, delicate, heavenly | 9 | |
10245450636 | feasible | within reason | 10 | |
10245451030 | fecund | fertile, productive | 11 | |
10245451031 | gaffe | an embarrassing mistake, a crude social error, blunder, a faux pas | 12 | |
10245451032 | gist | center and material part, essence | 13 | |
10245451909 | hackneyed | overused, cliche | 14 | |
10245451910 | hapless | unlucky | 15 | |
10245454847 | idiosyncrasy | a behavioral quirk | 16 | |
10245454848 | imbue | to fill with a certain quality or feeling, to permeate with an idea or emotion | 17 | |
10245455657 | jilt | to reject (a lover) | 18 | |
10245455658 | jocular | inclined to joke, merry, amusing or intended to cause amusement | 19 | |
10245455659 | kindle | to cause or burn to ignite, to arouse or inspire | 20 | |
10245456476 | kinship | natural connection or family relationship | 21 | |
10245458767 | lassitude | listlessness, torpor, weariness | 22 | |
10245459701 | laudable | worthy of being praised | 23 | |
10245459702 | anaphora | the repetition of the same word or group of words at beginning of successive clauses, sentences, or lines | 24 | |
10245461213 | anadiplosis | The repetition of the last word from previous line, clause or sentence at beginning of next | 25 | |
10245461214 | chiasmus | A figure of speech in which two or more clauses are related to each other through reversal of structure | 26 | |
10245461881 | connotation | The associations that are connected to a certain word or emotion | 27 | |
10245462832 | ethos | appeal to credibility | 28 | |
10245462833 | euphemism | a mild word or phrase which substitutes for another which would be undesirable because it is too direct, offensive, or unpleasant | 29 | |
10245464122 | hyperbole | extreme exaggeration | 30 | |
10245464123 | logos | appeal to logic | 31 | |
10245465020 | metonymy | substituting a word for another word closely related to it | 32 | |
10245465021 | oxymoron | putting two contradictory words together for effect | 33 | |
10245466163 | pathos | appeal to emotion | 34 | |
10245466164 | personification | giving human like qualities to animals or objects | 35 | |
10245466908 | synecdoche | when a part of person or thing is used to represent whole | 36 | |
10245466909 | tricolon | three parallel elements of same length occurring together in series | 37 | |
10245467733 | understatement | statement that lessens or minimizes importance of what is meant | 38 |
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