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| 3490838121 | aquisitive | able to get and retain ideas or information; concerned with acquiring wealth or property | 0 | |
| 3490841366 | banal | hackneyed, trite, commonplace | 1 | |
| 3490843159 | carping | tending to find fault, especially in a petty, nasty, or hairsplitting way; pegging, nagging criticism | 2 | |
| 3490847344 | emulate | to imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model | 3 | |
| 3490849931 | germane | relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting | 4 | |
| 3490856085 | invidious | offensive, hateful; tending to cause bitterness and resentment | 5 | |
| 3490858191 | reconnaissance | a survey made for military purposes; any kind of preliminary inspection or examination | 6 | |
| 3490862308 | taciturn | habitually silent or quiet, inclined to talk very little | 7 | |
| 3490867391 | tenable | capable of being held or defended | 8 | |
| 3490869862 | maelstrom | a whirlpool of great size and violence; a situation resembling a whirlpool of violence and destruction | 9 | |
| 3490876821 | sacrilege | improper or disrespectful treatment of something held sacred | 10 | |
| 3490879389 | aminadversion | a comment indicating strong criticism or disapproval | 11 | |
| 3490883543 | myopic | nearsighted; lacking a broad realistic view of a situation; lacking foresight or discernment | 12 | |
| 3490888293 | halcyon | a legendary bird identified with the kingfisher; of or relating to the halcyon; calm, peaceful; happy, golden; prosperous, affluent | 13 | |
| 3490903108 | celerity | swiftness, rapidity of motion or action | 14 | |
| 3490905194 | incendiary | deliberately setting or causing fires; designed to start fires; tending to stir up strife or rebellion; one who deliberately starts fires, arsonist | 15 | |
| 3490912110 | nefarious | wicked or criminal activity | 16 | |
| 3490913976 | verdant | green with grass or other rich vegetation | 17 | |
| 3490916658 | distraught | deeply upset or agitated | 18 | |
| 3490919220 | piquant | pleasantly sharp taste or appetizing flavor; pleasantly stimulating or exciting to mind | 19 | |
| 3490922497 | pejorative | tending to make worse; expressing disapproval or disagreement; derogatory, deprecatory; belittling | 20 | |
| 3490929170 | talisman | an object that serves as a charm or is believed to confer magical power an amulet | 21 | |
| 3490931942 | summarily | without delay or formality; briefly; concisely | 22 | |
| 3490934118 | encomium | a formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute | 23 | |
| 3490936386 | temporize | to stall or act evasively in order to gain time, avoid a confrontation, or postpone a decision; to compromise | 24 | |
| 3490942175 | malapropism | the erroneous substitution for the correct word which is similar in sound, but the very different meaning | 25 | |
| 3490946413 | oxymoron | a figure of speech that juxtaposes two opposite or apparently contradictory words to present an emphatic and dramatic paradox for a rhetorical purpose or effect | 26 | |
| 3490970603 | dues ex machina | an unexpected power or event saving a seemingly hopeless situation, especially as a contrived plot device in a play or novel | 27 | |
| 3490995714 | hubris | excessive pride toward or defiance of the gods, leading to nemesis | 28 | |
| 3490998664 | foil | a character who contrasts with another character (usually protagonist) in order to highlight particular qualities of the other characters | 29 | |
| 3491037227 | didactic | something that instructs or provides information for a particular purpose; teaches a lesson | 30 | |
| 3491042302 | hyperbole | a figure of speech that uses deliberate exaggeration to achieve an effect, whether serious, comic, or ironic. It could also be described as an overstatement | 31 | |
| 3491059465 | archetype | an original model or type after which other similar things are patterned | 32 | |
| 3491068243 | pathos | a quality in a work or a portion thereof that makes the reader experience pity, sorrow, tenderness | 33 | |
| 3491075132 | apostrophe | a figure of speech in which the speaker directly and often emotionally addresses a person who is dead or otherwise not physically present | 34 | |
| 3491726074 | cliche | an expression used so often that is has become hackneyed and has lost its original impact | 35 | |
| 3491733060 | denouement | a term that both refers to the events following the climax of a plot and implies some ingenious resolution of the dramatic conflict and explanation of plot | 36 | |
| 3491748934 | parallelism | a rhetorical figure used in written and oral compositions since similar constructions | 37 | |
| 3491756777 | rhetorical question | a figure of speech in which a question is posed not to solicit a reply, but to emphasize a foregone or clearly implied conclusion | 38 | |
| 3491763288 | simile | a figure of speech that compares 2 distinct things by using words such as like or as to link the comparison | 39 | |
| 3491768685 | understatement | a term, which is a form of irony, when taken literally, minimizes its evident significance or gravity; deliberately expressed as less important than it really is | 40 | |
| 3491780276 | allegory | a work in which an abstract concept is presented as though it were a character who speaks and acts as an independent being | 41 | |
| 3491788992 | anagnorisis | moment in a play or other work when a character makes a critical discovery | 42 | |
| 3491792264 | chorus | group of performers who comment on the main action, typically speaking and moving together | 43 | |
| 3491798316 | hamartia | a fatal flaw leading to the downfall of a tragic hero or heroine | 44 | |
| 3491802531 | moira | person's fate of destiny | 45 | |
| 3491804450 | farce | a comic dramatic work using buffononery and horseplay and typically including crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situations | 46 | |
| 3491811687 | connotation | an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning | 47 | |
| 3491815731 | denotation | the literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests | 48 | |
| 3496471997 | tone | in written composition, is an attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience | 49 |
