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| 3719273242 | invective | abusive or venomous language used to express blame or censure or bitter deep-seated ill will | 0 | |
| 3719273243 | diatribe | a bitter and prolonged verbal attack | 1 | |
| 3719273244 | polemic | a controversy (especially over a belief or dogma) | 2 | |
| 3719273245 | infidel | a person who does not acknowledge your God | 3 | |
| 3719273246 | prudent | showing wise self-restraint in speech and behavior especially in preserving prudent silence | 4 | |
| 3719273247 | didactic | instructive (especially excessively) | 5 | |
| 3719273248 | vex | disturb the peace of mind of, confuse, annoy | 6 | |
| 3719273249 | pernicious | exceedingly harmful | 7 | |
| 3719273250 | fervent | characterized by intense emotion | 8 | |
| 3719273251 | vanquish | overcome in battle; conquer; defeat | 9 | |
| 3719273252 | feign | make believe with the intent to deceive | 10 | |
| 3719273253 | ambivalence | the state of having contradictory or conflicting emotional attitudes or opinions | 11 | |
| 3719273254 | gratuitous | unnecessary and unwarranted | 12 | |
| 3719273255 | emulate | strive to equal or match, especially by imitating | 13 | |
| 3719273256 | pious | having or showing or expressing reverence for a deity | 14 | |
| 3719273257 | zealous | marked by active interest and enthusiasm | 15 | |
| 3719273258 | cynical | believing the worst of human nature and motives | 16 | |
| 3719273259 | petulant | (adj.) peevish, annoyed by trifles, easily irritated and upset | 17 | |
| 3719273260 | mordant | harshly ironic or sinister | 18 | |
| 3719273261 | despotism | dominance through threat of punishment and violence | 19 | |
| 3719273262 | ignominy | a state of dishonor | 20 | |
| 3719273263 | callous | emotionally hardened | 21 | |
| 3719273264 | voracious | excessively greedy and grasping | 22 | |
| 3719273265 | punctilious | marked by precise accordance with details | 23 | |
| 3719273266 | pedantic | marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects | 24 | |
| 3719273267 | dyspeptic | suffering from indigestion; gloomy and irritable | 25 | |
| 3719273268 | condescending | treating people as weak or inferior | 26 | |
| 3719273269 | pedestrian | lacking excitement; ordinary and dull | 27 | |
| 3719273270 | consecrate | render holy by means of religious rites | 28 | |
| 3719273271 | tacit | indicated by necessary connotation though not expressed directly | 29 | |
| 3719273272 | cloistered | providing privacy or seclusion | 30 | |
| 3719273273 | exhort | urge on or encourage especially by shouts | 31 | |
| 3719273274 | doggerel | a comic verse of irregular measure | 32 | |
| 3719273275 | burlesque | a composition that imitates somebody's style in a humorous way | 33 | |
| 3719273276 | hypocrisy | insincerity by virtue of pretending to have qualities or beliefs that you do not really have | 34 | |
| 3719273277 | complacent | contented to a fault | 35 | |
| 3719273278 | dogmatic | characterized by arrogant assertion of unproved or unprovable principles | 36 | |
| 3719273279 | integrity | moral soundness | 37 | |
| 3719273280 | bellicose | having or showing a ready disposition to fight | 38 | |
| 3719273281 | languid | lacking spirit or liveliness | 39 | |
| 3719273282 | pragmatic | concerned with practical matters | 40 | |
| 3719273283 | parapet | (n.) a wall for protection; a low wall or railing | 41 | |
| 3719273284 | advocate | a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea | 42 | |
| 3719273285 | degradation | changing to a lower state (a less respected state) | 43 | |
| 3719273286 | pensive | persistently or morbidly thoughtful | 44 | |
| 3719273287 | implacable | unable to be calmed down or made peaceful | 45 | |
| 3719273288 | vitriolic | harsh or corrosive in tone | 46 | |
| 3719273289 | discern | to differentiate between two or more things | 47 | |
| 3719273290 | epiphany | a moment of sudden revelation or insight | 48 | |
| 3719273291 | denigrating | (used of statements) harmful and often untrue | 49 | |
| 3719273292 | impetuous | characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation | 50 | |
| 3719273293 | apoplectic | overcome with anger | 51 | |
| 3719273294 | caricature | (n.) a representation (especially in drawing) in which the subject's characteristic features are deliberately exaggerated; (v.) to present someone or something in a deliberately distorted way | 52 | |
| 3719273295 | ambiguity | unclearness by virtue of having more than one meaning | 53 | |
| 3719273296 | effusive | extravagantly demonstrative | 54 | |
| 3719273297 | bulwark | a protective structure of stone or concrete | 55 | |
| 3719273298 | animistic | the belief that natural objects, natural phenomena, and the universe itself possess souls | 56 | |
| 3719273299 | mendacious | intentionally untrue | 57 | |
| 3719273300 | pompous | puffed up with vanity | 58 | |
| 3719273301 | deluded | deceived or misled | 59 | |
| 3719273302 | dissipation | useless or profitless activity | 60 | |
| 3719273303 | discursive | (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects | 61 | |
| 3719273304 | secular | worldly; not pertaining to church matters or religion; temporal | 62 | |
| 3719273305 | sardonic | disdainfully or ironically humorous | 63 | |
| 3719273306 | supercilious | having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy | 64 | |
| 3719273307 | pernicious | exceedingly harmful | 65 | |
| 3719273308 | scrutiny | the act of examining something closely (as for mistakes) | 66 | |
| 3719273309 | omniscient | knowing everything; having unlimited awareness or understanding | 67 | |
| 3719273310 | syntactical inversion | sentence structure is flipped | 68 | |
| 3719273311 | apposition | 2 nouns used for the same thing | 69 | |
| 3719273312 | enumeration | numbered | 70 | |
| 3719273313 | anaphora | the use of a word referring to or replacing a word used earlier in a sentence, to avoid repetition, such as do in I like it and so do they. | 71 | |
| 3719273314 | asyndeton | the omission or absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence. | 72 | |
| 3719273315 | rapt | completely fascinated by what one is seeing or hearing. | 73 | |
| 3719273316 | didactic | intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive. | 74 | |
| 3719273317 | provocative | causing annoyance, anger, or another strong reaction, especially deliberately. | 75 | |
| 3719273318 | rhetorical/ rhetoric | nonfiction, inform, persuade | 76 | |
| 3719273319 | modes of rhetoric | nonfiction, inform, persuade, description, narration, example, process analysis, division, compare/contrast, definition, cause/effect, argument, document | 77 | |
| 3719273320 | allusive | working by suggestion rather than explicit mention | 78 | |
| 3719273321 | allegorical | constituting or containing allegory | 79 | |
| 3719273322 | epistrophe | the repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences. | 80 | |
| 3719273323 | zealous | having or showing zeal | 81 | |
| 3719273324 | derisive | expressing contempt or ridicule | 82 | |
| 3719273325 | litotes | ironical understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary | 83 | |
| 3719273326 | expedient | convenient and practical, although possibly improper or immoral. | 84 |
