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| 5645944112 | Altruistic | (adj.) unselfish, concerned with the welfare of others | 0 | |
| 5645946448 | Ambivalent | The state of having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone. "the law's ambivalence about the importance of a victim's identity" |  | 1 |
| 5645946449 | Anomalous | (adj.) abnormal, irregular, departing from the usual | 2 | |
| 5645946450 | Bravado | fake bravery | 3 | |
| 5645949059 | Caustic | Biting in wit |  | 4 |
| 5645951051 | Censure | express severe disapproval of (someone or something), typically in a formal statement. "a judge was censured in 1983 for a variety of types of injudicious conduct" | 5 | |
| 5645951052 | Condescending | an attitude of patronizing superiority; disdain. "a tone of condescension" | 6 | |
| 5645953459 | Contempt | The feeling that a person or a thing is beneath consideration, worthless, or deserving scorn. "he showed his contempt for his job by doing it very badly" |  | 7 |
| 5645953460 | Didactic | Describe fiction or nonfiction that teaches a specifc lesson or moral |  | 8 |
| 5645953461 | Disdain | (v.) to look upon with scorn; to refuse scornfully; (n.) a feeling of contempt |  | 9 |
| 5645953462 | Disinterest | To not be interested in something | 10 | |
| 5645956900 | Dispassionate | To not be passionate about something | 11 | |
| 5645956901 | Egregious | outstandingly bad; shocking | 12 | |
| 5645959953 | Equivocal | (adj.) ambiguous, uncertain, undecided (His intentions were so equivocal that I didn't know whether he was being chivalrous or sleazy.) | 13 | |
| 5645960049 | Exhortative | To urge, advise, or caution earnestly; admonish urgently | 14 | |
| 5645963168 | Fawning | overabundance of flattery | 15 | |
| 5645965703 | Flippant | (adj.) lacking in seriousness; disrespectful, saucy | 16 | |
| 5645965704 | Imperious | (adj.) overbearing, arrogant; seeking to dominate; pressing, compelling | 17 | |
| 5645965705 | Jaded | (adj.) wearied, worn-out, dulled (in the sense of being satiated by excessive indulgence) | 18 | |
| 5645965706 | Incredulous | Disbelieving, skeptical | 19 | |
| 5645966136 | Lugubrious | exaggeratedly mournful |  | 20 |
| 5645966137 | Mollify | (v.) to soften, make gentle, pacify; to calm, allay (as an emotion), assuage, appease, placate; to reduce in intensity | 21 | |
| 5645968955 | Nonchalant | (adj.) having a lack of concern, indifference (Although deep down she was very angry, Marsha acted in a nonchalant manner when she found out that her best friend had used her clothing without asking.) | 22 | |
| 5645968956 | Objective | (adj) factual, related to reality or physical objects; not influenced by emotions, unbiased | 23 | |
| 5645968957 | Obliqe | not relivant | 24 | |
| 5645968958 | Ominous | Menacing; threatening | 25 | |
| 5645971523 | Patronizing | Condescending, having a superior manner, treating as an inferior | 26 | |
| 5645971524 | Pedantic | An adjective that describes words, phrases, or general tone that is overly scholarly, academic, or bookish. |  | 27 |
| 5645971525 | Resigned | accepting one's fate; unresisting; patiently submissive | 28 | |
| 5645971526 | Saguine | Optimistic | 29 | |
| 5645971527 | Sardonic | (adj.) grimly or scornfully mocking, bitterly sarcastic | 30 | |
| 5645975110 | Wry | (adj.) twisted, turned to one side; cleverly and often grimly humorous | 31 | |
| 5645975111 | Ad hominem | An argument based on the failings of an adversary rather than on the merits of the case; a logical fallacy that involves a personal attack. |  | 32 |
| 5645975112 | Allegory | A literary work in which characters, objects, or actions represent abstractions | 33 | |
| 5645977459 | Allusion | A direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known, such as an event, book, myth, place, or work of art. Allusions can be historical, literary, religious, topical, or mythical. There are many more possibilities, and a work may simultaneously use multiple layers of allusion. | 34 | |
| 5645977460 | Analogy | A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way | 35 | |
| 5645977461 | Anaphora | A rhetorical figure of repetition in which the same word or phrase is repeated in (and usually at the beginning of) successive lines, clauses, or sentences. | 36 | |
| 5645977462 | Anecdote | A brief narrative that focuses on a particular incident or event. | 37 | |
| 5645980408 | Anticlimatic | Something that was not built up to what it was supposed to | 38 | |
| 5645980409 | Antithesis | (n.) the direct opposite, a sharp contrast | 39 | |
| 5645980410 | Aphorism | A brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life. |  | 40 |
| 5645980411 | Apostrophe | Talking to things that are not there | 41 | |
| 5647241113 | Asyndeton | Commas used (with no conjunction) to separate a series of words, speeds up flow of sentence. X, Y, Z as opposed to X, Y, and Z. |  | 42 |
| 5647241114 | Bandwagon Appeal | A claim that a listener should accept an argument because of how many other people have already accepted it. | 43 | |
| 5647241115 | Chiasmus | A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed |  | 44 |
| 5647243179 | Circular Reasoning | Reasoning that ends and begins in the same place. No evidence is offered | 45 | |
| 5647243180 | Colloquial | Lay man terms | 46 | |
| 5647243181 | Conceit | To be full of yourself | 47 | |
| 5647245645 | Concrete Detail | Details that are solid | 48 | |
| 5647245646 | Concession | Something given up or yielded |  | 49 |
| 5647248184 | Deductive Reasoning | reasoning in which a conclusion is reached by stating a general principle and then applying that principle to a specific case (The sun rises every morning; therefore, the sun will rise on Tuesday morning.) | 50 | |
| 5647248185 | Digression | to get away from the task at hand | 51 | |
| 5655542251 | Ellipsis | When words or phrases are ommited | 52 | |
| 5655544221 | Epistrophe | Repeated phrases at the end of a sentence |  | 53 |
| 5655544222 | Ethos | Appeal to credibility | 54 | |
| 5655544223 | Euphemism | Device where being indirect replaces reality Passed away for died | 55 | |
| 5655544237 | Hortatory Subjunctive | A subjunctive that will act as a command. It only appears in the first person plural | 56 | |
| 5655545578 | Hyperbole | Deliberate exaggeration or overstatement | 57 | |
| 5655545579 | Idiomatic Expression | An expression that can not be translated literally "How do you do?" | 58 | |
| 5655547014 | Imperative | Commanding statement | 59 | |
| 5655551124 | Inductive Reasoning | A type of logic in which generalizations are based on a large number of specific observations. | 60 | |
| 5655602878 | Invective | abusive language | 61 | |
| 5655602879 | Inverted Syntax | reversing the normal word order of a sentence | 62 | |
| 5655602880 | Irony | Differences between appearance and reality/meaning and intention | 63 | |
| 5655604540 | Juxtaposition | Unassociated ideas, words, or phrases are placed next to one another | 64 | |
| 5655604541 | Lampooning | harsh satire aimed at an individual |  | 65 |
| 5655604542 | Litotes | Understatement in which a thing is affirmed by stating the negative of its opposite. It was not a pretty picture | 66 | |
| 5655604573 | Logos | Appeal to logic | 67 | |
| 5655606909 | Loose Sentence | Complete sentence that's brought to the close before the actual end | 68 | |
| 5655606910 | Metaphor | Comparison without using like or as | 69 | |
| 5655606930 | Metonymy | When an name of something is substituted something close to it | 70 | |
| 5655606931 | Non Sequitur | something that does not logically follow |  | 71 |
| 5655608033 | Parable | Story that teaches a lesson | 72 | |
| 5655608034 | Paradox | Assertion opposed to common sense but may have truth in it | 73 | |
| 5655608035 | Parallel Structure | the repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures | 74 | |
| 5655608065 | Pathos | Quality in a real situation or in a literary work that evokes sympathy | 75 | |
| 5655609408 | Periodic Sentence | Sentence that places all the important information at the end | 76 | |
| 5655613571 | Personification | Giving a non human object human characteristics | 77 | |
| 5655613572 | Polysyndeton | Repetition of conjunctions in a series of coordinate words phrases or clauses |  | 78 |
| 5655613573 | Pun | Play on words | 79 | |
| 5655613574 | Qualifier | a word or phrase that clarifies, modifies, or limits the meaning of another word or phrase | 80 | |
| 5655613585 | Querulous | (adj.) peevish, complaining, fretful | 81 | |
| 5655614469 | Rapport | (n.) mutual understanding and harmony (When Margaret met her paramour, they felt an instant rapport.) |  | 82 |
| 5655614470 | Rhetorical Question | question that is not requiring an answer | 83 | |
| 5655615663 | Simile | Comparison using like or as | 84 | |
| 5655615664 | Symbol | Word that can stand for something else | 85 | |
| 5655615665 | Synecdoche | A part that stands for a whole | 86 | |
| 5655616978 | Synesthesia | Two or more senses "Loud Shirt" "Blue Note" | 87 | |
| 5655616979 | Syntax | Arrangement of words in a sentence | 88 | |
| 5655617000 | Understatement | Making something large not seem as large | 89 | |
| 5655618515 | Verbals | Word that looks like a verb but stands for something else | 90 |
