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| 5528157178 | esoteric | Intended for or understood by only a small group | 0 | |
| 5528159631 | connotative | the implied or associated meaning of a word | 1 | |
| 5528159632 | bombastic | pompous in speech and manner | 2 | |
| 5528159649 | colloquial | Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing | 3 | |
| 5528164188 | trite | commonplace; overused, stale | 4 | |
| 5528166750 | homespun | domestic; made at home; spun or woven at home; simple and ordinary | 5 | |
| 5528166751 | pedantic | Excessively concerned with book learning and formal rules | 6 | |
| 5528169446 | insipid | lacking interest or flavor | 7 | |
| 5528169447 | obtuse | Lacking sharpness of intellect; not clear or precise in thought or expression | 8 | |
| 5528171892 | obscure | difficult to understand; partially hidden | 9 | |
| 5528171893 | pensive | Thoughtful Thinking deeply or seriously | 10 | |
| 5528174170 | vacuous | Lacking intelligence | 11 | |
| 5528174171 | elegiac | Expressing sorrow or lamentation | 12 | |
| 5528174172 | derisive | expressing contempt or ridicule | 13 | |
| 5528177331 | vilify | to say vile things about; to defame | 14 | |
| 5528177332 | reticent | NOT SPEAKING FREELY; RESERVED; RELUCTANT | 15 | |
| 5528180099 | flippant | Lacking in seriousness; disrespectful, saucy | 16 | |
| 5528180100 | antithesis | Direct opposite | 17 | |
| 5528180101 | concession | A reluctant acknowledgment or yielding. | 18 | |
| 5528183438 | euphemism | An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant | 19 | |
| 5528187437 | incontrovertible | Indisputable | 20 | |
| 5528187438 | penitent | expressing remorse for one's misdeeds | 21 | |
| 5528189661 | vindicate | To free from blame | 22 | |
| 5528189662 | objectivity | treating facts without influence from personal feelings or prejudices | 23 | |
| 5528189663 | haughty | Arrogantly superior and disdainful | 24 | |
| 5528193402 | cogent | convincing and well-reasoned | 25 | |
| 5528193403 | imperious | overbearing, arrogant; seeking to dominate; pressing, compelling | 26 | |
| 5528193404 | impede | To obstruct or interfere with; to delay | 27 | |
| 5528195676 | opulent | Luxurious; wealthy | 28 | |
| 5528195677 | indolent | Lazy | 29 | |
| 5528199688 | ebullience | intense enthusiasm | 30 | |
| 5528199689 | superfluous | Unnecessary | 31 | |
| 5528201859 | pejorative | Disparaging, belittling, insulting | 32 | |
| 5528201860 | proliferate | to increase in number quickly | 33 | |
| 5528205319 | affable | Friendly | 34 | |
| 5528205320 | malleable | capable of being shaped | 35 | |
| 5528207998 | elusive | Hard to grasp | 36 | |
| 5528207999 | aesthetic | Pertaining to beauty | 37 | |
| 5528208000 | truncate | cut short | 38 | |
| 5528209355 | dilettante | someone with an amateurish and superficial interest in a topic | 39 | |
| 5540462868 | tone | Attitudes and presuppositions of the author that are revealed by their linguistic choices (diction, syntax, rhetorical devices) | 40 | |
| 5540462869 | diction | A writer's or speaker's choice of words | 41 | |
| 5540462870 | syntax | Sentence structure | 42 | |
| 5540464921 | allusion | A brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance. | 43 | |
| 5540464922 | juxtaposition | Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts | 44 | |
| 5540468076 | anaphora | Repetition of a word or words at the beginning of two or more successive verses, clauses, or sentences | 45 | |
| 5540468077 | ethos | Appeal to credibility | 46 | |
| 5540469845 | logos | Appeal to logic | 47 | |
| 5540469846 | pathos | Appeal to emotion | 48 | |
| 5540469847 | overstatement | statement that implies more than the actual meaning (deliberately stating more than the truth) | 49 | |
| 5540472465 | understatement | a figure of speech in which a writer or speaker deliberately makes a situation seem less important or serious than it is | 50 | |
| 5540472466 | sarcasm | A sharp, caustic attitude conveyed in words through jibes, taunts, or other remarks; differs from irony, which is more subtle. | 51 | |
| 5540472467 | epistle | a letter or literary composition in letter form | 52 | |
| 5540474759 | exigence | An issue, problem, or situation that causes or prompts someone to write or speak. | 53 | |
| 5540478019 | polysyndeton | Sentence which uses and or another conjunction (with no commas) to separate the items in a series. Polysyndeton appear in the form of X and Y and Z, stressing equally each member of a series. It makes the sentence slower and the items more emphatic than in the asyndeton. | 54 | |
| 5540480294 | epigraph | A brief quotation found at the beginning of a literary work, reflective of theme. | 55 | |
| 5569303126 | anecdote | A brief narrative that focuses on a particular incident or event. | 56 |
