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| 7556501134 | Obliquely | neither parallel nor at a right angle to a specific or implied line; slanting | 0 | |
| 7556508965 | Feigned | 1) pretended; sham; counterfeit 2) assumed; fictitious 3) disguised | 1 | |
| 7556512835 | Impolitic | not expedient or judicious | 2 | |
| 7556529539 | Marginal | 1) situated on the border or edge 2) at the outer or lower limits; minimal for requirements; almost insufficient | 3 | |
| 7587897946 | Subservent | 1) serving or acting in a subordinate capacity; subordinate 2) servile; excessively submissive; obsequious | 4 | |
| 7587901993 | Prosaic | 1) commonplace or dull; matter-of-fact or unimaginative 2) of or having the character or form of prose, the ordinary form of spoken or written language, rather than of poetry | 5 | |
| 7587905201 | Jest | Saying something for amusement; joke | 6 | |
| 7587908283 | Conciliatory | Intend to placate or reconcile; intend to hide | 7 | |
| 7587910655 | Spurs | anything that goads, impels, or urges, as to action, speed, or achievement | 8 | |
| 7587910656 | Malignant | very dangerous or harmful in influence or effect | 9 | |
| 7587919266 | Symbol | Something that, although it is of interest in its own right, stands for or suggests something larger and more complex- often an idea or range of interrelated ideas, attitudes and practices | 10 | |
| 7587921141 | Allegory | a narrative or description that has a second meaning beneath the surface, often relating to a literal term to a fixed, corresponding abstract idea or moral principle (usually belonging to pre-existing beliefs) | 11 | |
| 7587932519 | Metonymy | A figure of speech in which some thing is represented by another. ex: handwriting = hand | 12 | |
| 7587940592 | conceit | An elaborate and often surprising comparison between two apparently highly dissimilar things | 13 | |
| 7587940593 | fables | a short story usually including animals; a short, fictional prose or verse with a specific moral | 14 | |
| 7682546366 | Eulogy | A speech or a piece of writing that praises someone a lot. Usually, someone who has already passed. | 15 | |
| 7682551137 | Epithets | Adjective or descriptive phrase that expresses the quality or characteristic of a person; can be used as a term of abuse | 16 | |
| 7682566678 | Dispondent | feeling or showing profound hopelessness, dejection, discouragement or gloom | 17 | |
| 7682570234 | Wry | 1. abnormally bent or turned to one side; twisted; crooked 2. devious in course or purpose; misdirected 3. contrary; perverse 4. Distorted or perverted; as in meaning 5. Bitterly or disdainfully ironic or amusing. | 18 | |
| 7682579796 | EBB | 1. the flowing back of the tide as the water returns to the sea (opposed to flood, flow) 2. a flowing backward or away 3. a point of decline | 19 | |
| 7682586853 | Bestow | Present; grant | 20 | |
| 7682588553 | Trivial | Petty; insignificant; of little value or importance; unimportant | 21 | |
| 7682595536 | Calamity | An event causing great and often sudden damage or distress; disaster | 22 | |
| 7682600646 | Pestilence | Fatal epidemic, especially bubonic plague | 23 | |
| 7682603094 | Effusions | an unrestrained expression, as of feelings | 24 | |
| 7682609567 | Folly | lack of good sense, foolish; a costly decorative building that serves no purpose. | 25 | |
| 7682614840 | Literary fiction | Fiction written with serious artistic intentions, providing imagine experience and yielding authentic insights into some significant aspect of life. | 26 | |
| 7682615742 | Commercial fiction | Fiction written to meet the taste of a wide popular audience and relying usually on tested formulas for satisfying such taste | 27 | |
| 7688715245 | Figurations | 1. the act or an instance of representing figuratively as by means of allegory or emblem 2. A figurative or emblematic representation | 28 | |
| 7688726364 | Ostentatious | 1. Characterized by the vulgar pretentious display; designed to impress or attract notice. | 29 | |
| 7770268138 | Thine | Archaic form of "yours"; the things belonging or associated with thee; form of thy used before a vowel. | 30 | |
| 7770285427 | Decried | to publicly denounce; condemn | 31 | |
| 7770290872 | Divining | to discover by guesswork or intuition; to have a supernatural insight into future events; to discover water by dowsing | 32 | |
| 7770301840 | Feeble | lacking in physical strength; faint; lacking in strength of character; failing to convince | 33 | |
| 7770307378 | Voluptuous | 1) full of, characterized by, or ministering to indulgence in luxury, pleasure and sensuous enjoyment 2) derived from gratification of senses 3) directed towards or concerned with sensuous enjoyment or sensual pleasure | 34 | |
| 7770313483 | Insipid | lacking flavor; lacking vigor or interest; uninspired | 35 | |
| 7770320096 | Gradation | 1) any process or change taking place through a series of stages by degrees, or in gradual manner 2) the leveling of a land surface, resulting from the concerted action of | 36 | |
| 7770333213 | Hence | as a consequence; for this reason | 37 | |
| 7770343636 | Breadth | distance measured from side to side; width; piece of cloth at standard or full width | 38 | |
| 7770353108 | Threadbare | becoming thin and tattered with age; worn | 39 | |
| 7804016970 | Didactic | Instructive; have the primary function of teaching | 40 | |
| 7804216706 | Malapropism | the enormous substitution for the correct word of a similar word in sound but very different in meaning. | 41 | |
| 7804219886 | Non Sequitur | A statement (such as a response) that does not follow logically from or is not clearly related to anything previously said | 42 | |
| 7804223154 | Declination | the angular distance of a point north or south of the celestial equator; formal refusal; a turning aside or swerving; a deviation away from the norm | 43 | |
| 7804228447 | Ellipsis | literary device that is used in narratives to omit some parts of a sentence or event, which gives the reader a chance to fill the gaps while acting or reading it out. It is usually written between the sentences as "..." | 44 | |
| 8047003414 | Enjambment | Continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza | 45 | |
| 8047005055 | Apostrophe | 46 | ||
| 8047005056 | Maxim | A short, pithy statement expressing a general thruth or rule of conduct; saying; proverb | 47 | |
| 8047007631 | Ballad | A poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas | 48 | |
| 8047011581 | Sonnet | O poem of 14 lines using any number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having 10 syllables per line. | 49 | |
| 8047014710 | Aberrant | departing from an accepted standard | 50 | |
| 8047015884 | Subversive | seeking or intended to undermine the power and authority of an established system or institution; troublemaker; disruptive | 51 | |
| 8047024685 | Bedeviled | cause great trouble | 52 | |
| 8047026434 | Subvert | To undermine the authority of(an institution) | 53 | |
| 8047028313 | Writ | form of written command in the name of a court or other legal authority to act, or abstain from acting, in a certain way. | 54 | |
| 8047032403 | Lionized | give someone a lot of public attention to treat as a celebrity | 55 | |
| 8047033366 | Allay | diminish; put to rest | 56 | |
| 8047034389 | Reproachful | expressing discontent or disapproval | 57 | |
| 8047036959 | Abridger | Someone who shortens work | 58 |
