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| 4810999167 | Cosmic irony | the perception of fate or the universe being malicious or indifferent to human suffering, which creates a painful contrast between a character's purposeful activity and its ultimate meaningless | 0 | |
| 4810999168 | Connotation | the association or implied meaning that a word carries along with its literal meaning | 1 | |
| 4810999169 | Consequence | an inference or conclusion derived through logic, or the result following from a cause | 2 | |
| 4810999170 | Deductive reasoning | reasoning in which one derives a specific conclusion from something generally or universally understood to be true | 3 | |
| 4810999171 | Denotation | the explicit, literal meaning of a word | 4 | |
| 4810999172 | Dramatic irony/Tragic irony | a technique in which the author lets the reader in on a character's situation while the character remains in the dark; thus the character's words and actions carry a significance that he or she is not aware of | 5 | |
| 4810999173 | Dialectic | a form of reasoning that proceeds by juxtaposing contradictory ideas and synthesizing or finding areas of agreement between them | 6 | |
| 4810999174 | Didactic | intended to instruct or to educate | 7 | |
| 4810999175 | Desultory | 1. lacking in consistency, constancy, or visible order, disconnected; fitful: desultory conversation 2. digressing form or unconnected with the main subject; random: a desultory remark | 8 | |
| 4810999176 | Dubious | of doubtful quality or propriety; questionable | 9 | |
| 4811002355 | Fortitude | strength of mind that enables one to endure adversity | 10 | |
| 4811002356 | Fraught | filled with or attended with | 11 |
