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| 11031009190 | accusatory | charging of wrongdoing |  | 0 |
| 11031009191 | apathetic | indifferent due to lack of energy or concern |  | 1 |
| 11031009192 | awe | solemn wonder |  | 2 |
| 11031009193 | bitter | exhibiting strong animosity as a result of pain or grief |  | 3 |
| 11031009194 | cynical | questions the basic sincerity and goodness of people |  | 4 |
| 11031009195 | condescension | a feeling of superiority |  | 5 |
| 11031009196 | callous | unfeeling, insensitive to the feelings of others |  | 6 |
| 11031009197 | contemplative | studying, thinking, reflecting on an issue |  | 7 |
| 11031009198 | critical | finding fault |  | 8 |
| 11031009199 | choleric | hot-tempered, easily angered |  | 9 |
| 11031009200 | contemptuous | showing or feeling that something is worthless or lacks respect |  | 10 |
| 11031009201 | caustic | intense use of sarcasm, stinging, biting |  | 11 |
| 11031009202 | conventional | lacking spontaneity, originality, and individuality |  | 12 |
| 11031009203 | disdainful | scornful |  | 13 |
| 11031009204 | didactic | author attempts to educate or instruct the reader |  | 14 |
| 11031009205 | derisive | ridiculing, mocking |  | 15 |
| 11031009206 | earnest | intense, a sincere state of mind |  | 16 |
| 11031009207 | erudite | learned, polished, scholarly |  | 17 |
| 11031009208 | fanciful | using the imagination |  | 18 |
| 11031009209 | forthright | directly frank without hesitation |  | 19 |
| 11031009210 | gloomy | sadness, darkness, rejection |  | 20 |
| 11031009211 | haughty | proud and vain to the point of arrogance |  | 21 |
| 11031009212 | indignant | marked by anger, aroused by injustice |  | 22 |
| 11031009213 | intimate | very familiar |  | 23 |
| 11031009214 | judgmental | authoritative and often having critical opinions |  | 24 |
| 11031009215 | jovial | happy |  | 25 |
| 11031009216 | lyrical | expressing a poets inner feelings, emotional, full of images, song-like |  | 26 |
| 11031009217 | matter of fact | accepting of conditions, not fanciful or emotional |  | 27 |
| 11031009218 | mocking | treating with contempt or ridicule |  | 28 |
| 11031009219 | morose | gloomy, sullen, surly, despondent |  | 29 |
| 11031009220 | malicious | purposefully hurtful |  | 30 |
| 11031009221 | objective | an unbiased view, able to leave personal judgments aside |  | 31 |
| 11031009222 | optimistic | hopeful, cheerful |  | 32 |
| 11031009223 | obsequious | polite and obedient in order to gain something |  | 33 |
| 11031009224 | patronizing | air of condescension | | 34 |
| 11031009225 | pessimistic | seeing the worst side of things, no hope |  | 35 |
| 11031009226 | quizzical | (adj.) puzzled; mocking; odd; equivocal |  | 36 |
| 11031009227 | ribald | offensive in speech or gesture |  | 37 |
| 11031009228 | reverent | treating a subject with honor and respect |  | 38 |
| 11031009229 | ridiculing | slightly contemptuous banter, making fun of |  | 39 |
| 11031009230 | reflective | illustrating innermost thoughts or emotions |  | 40 |
| 11031009231 | sarcastic | sneering, caustic |  | 41 |
| 11031009232 | sardonic | scornfully and bitterly sarcastic |  | 42 |
| 11031009233 | satiric | ridiculing to show weakness in order to make a point, teach |  | 43 |
| 11031009234 | sincere | without deceit or pretense, genuine |  | 44 |
| 11031009235 | solemn | deeply earnest, tending toward sad reflection |  | 45 |
| 11031009236 | sanguineous | optimistic and cheerful |  | 46 |
| 11031009237 | whimsical | odd, strange, fantastic, fun |  | 47 |
| 11031009238 | anadiplosis | beginning a sentence by repeating the last word of the previous sentence |  | 48 |
| 11031009239 | anaphora | the repetition of a word at the beginning of successive clauses |  | 49 |
| 11031009240 | epistrophe | the repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses |  | 50 |
| 11031009241 | litote | a positive statement is expressed by negating its opposite expressions |  | 51 |
| 11031009242 | asyndeton | the omission of a conjugation between parts of a sentence |  | 52 |
| 11031009243 | zeugma | a word applies to more than one noun |  | 53 |
| 11031009244 | Antimetabole/Chiasmus | a sentence is repeated in reverse order |  | 54 |
| 11031009245 | apposition (use of appositives) | two words or phrases are grammatically parallel and have the same referent |  | 55 |
| 11031009246 | hypophora | a writer raises a question and then immediately provides an answer to the question |  | 56 |
| 11031009247 | synechdoche | a part is made to represent the whole |  | 57 |
| 11031009248 | polysyndeton | conjunctions are used repeatedly in quick succession |  | 58 |
| 11031009249 | paradox | contains two statements that are true, but cannot be true at the same time |  | 59 |
