Vocab, tone, rhetorical terms.
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| 4406687535 | acerbic | bitter, sharp in taste or temper | 0 | |
| 4406687866 | strident | loud and harsh | 1 | |
| 4406688141 | ambivalence | conflicting feelings; uncertainty | 2 | |
| 4406688760 | conciliatory | making peace; attempting to resolve a dispute through goodwill | 3 | |
| 4406689198 | irate | very angry | 4 | |
| 4406689199 | judicious | sensible; showing good judgement | 5 | |
| 4406690110 | self-deprecating | belittling oneself; excessively modest | 6 | |
| 4406691283 | capricious | impulsive and unpredictable | 7 | |
| 4406695234 | feigned | pretended | 8 | |
| 4406695464 | poignant | emotionally moving | 9 | |
| 4406695703 | reverent | respectful | 10 | |
| 4406697326 | indifference | apathy; lack of feeling | 11 | |
| 4406698487 | disdain | intense dislike | 12 | |
| 4406698836 | facetious | humorous | 13 | |
| 4406699221 | flippant | disrespectful | 14 | |
| 4406700090 | pedantic | boringly scholarly or academic | 15 | |
| 4406700763 | petty | unimportant | 16 | |
| 4406700764 | benevolent | kind | 17 | |
| 4406701212 | effusive | gushing; demonstrative | 18 | |
| 4406702117 | elegiac | sorrow | 19 | |
| 4406702453 | detached | disinterested, unconcerned, distant | 20 | |
| 4406704257 | aloof | distant | 21 | |
| 4406704625 | didactic | instructive, educational | 22 | |
| 4406709652 | allegory | a story in which the people, places, and things represent general concepts or moral qualities | 23 | |
| 4406710668 | allusion | a brief reference to a person, place, event, or passage in a work of literature | 24 | |
| 4406711540 | anticlimax | a sudden drop from important thought, for humorous effect | 25 | |
| 4406712753 | argumentation | exploration of a problem by investigating all sides of it; persuasion through reason | 26 | |
| 4406714586 | irony | a humorous expression in which the intended meaning of the words is the opposite of their usual meaning | 27 | |
| 4406715863 | inverted syntax | basically Yoda | 28 | |
| 4406716668 | treatise | manifesto | 29 | |
| 4406717091 | parable | a short story with a moral lesson | 30 | |
| 4406717378 | paradox | a statement which seems self-contradictory, but may be true in fact | 31 | |
| 4406719804 | syllogism | a form of reasoning in which two statements are made and a logical conclusion is drawn from them | 32 |
