4810381938 | Barrage | Noun- a concentrated outpouring, as of questions or blows Verb- to bombard someone with something | 0 | |
4810381939 | Innocuous | Adjective- not harmful or offensive | 1 | |
4810381940 | Subsequent | Adjective-coming after something in time; following | 2 | |
4810381941 | Embedded | Verb- (past tense) to implant (an idea or feeling) within something else so it becomes an engrained or essential part of it | 3 | |
4810381942 | Astringent | Adjective- sharp or severe in manner or style | 4 | |
4810381943 | Ubiquitous | Adjective- present, appearing, or found everywhere | 5 | |
4810381944 | Volatile | Adjective- liable to change rapidly and unpredictably, especially for the worse | 6 | |
4810381945 | Quintessential | Representing the most perfect or typical example of a quality or class. | 7 | |
4810381946 | Catalyst | A person or thing that precipitates an event | 8 | |
4810381947 | Mundane | Regular | 9 | |
4810381948 | Allusion | (rhetoric) when you reference a text or something in another situation | 10 | |
4810381949 | Hyperbole | (rhetoric) the exaggeration of ideas for the sake of emphasis | 11 | |
4810381950 | Metaphor | (rhetoric) comparison not using like or as | 12 | |
4810381951 | Understatement | (rhetoric) a figure of speech in which a writer or a speaker deliberately makes a situation seem less important or serious than it is | 13 |
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