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| 6827752038 | Abstractions | Something that exists only as an idea. Example: "The question can no longer be treated as an academic abstraction" | 0 | |
| 6827756768 | Allegory | A literary work in which characters, objects, or actions represent abstractions. Example: "Pilgrim's Progress is an allegory of the spiritual journey" | 1 | |
| 6827760441 | Analysis of a process | A method of paragraph or essay development by which a writer explains step by step how something is done or how to do something. Example: How To tie your shoes. | 2 | |
| 6827760442 | Anapest | Two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable Example: That host [with] their ban[ners] at sun[set] were seen: " | 3 | |
| 6827760443 | 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. Example: Do in "I like it and so do they." | 4 | |
| 6827764144 | Anecdotal narrative | A short account of an interesting or amusing incident usually intended to illustrate or support some point in an essay, article, or chapter of a book. Example: A group of coworkers are discussing pets, and one coworker tells a story about how her cat comes downstairs at only a certain time of the night. | 5 | |
| 6827764145 | Antecedent | The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun. Example: "The weather is great today; let's make the most of it by going to the beach." | 6 | |
| 6827764158 | Apostraphe | a figure of speech in which a speaker addresses a dead or non-present entity, an abstract quality or non-human as if it were present. Example: "Roll on blue ocean." | 7 | |
| 6827768532 | Ballad Meter | a four-line stanza rhymed abcd with four feet in lines one and three and three feet in lines two and four. Example: Oh Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling From glen to glen, and down the mountain side The summer's gone, and all the flowers are dying 'Tis you, 'tis you must go and I must bide. | 8 | |
| 6827768538 | Biblical Allusions | References to figures, stories, or settings from the bible. Example: Antedeluvian is Latin for "before the flood," referring to the flood Noah rode out in Genesis. | 9 | |
| 6827768539 | Blank verse | Unrhymed iambic pentameter. Example: Something there is that doesn't love a wall. That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it, And spills the upper boulders in the sun; | 10 | |
| 6827768540 | Categorical assertion | States how one thing relates to another in its entirety. Example: All parents worry about their children. | 11 | |
| 6827776493 | Cause and effect analysis | This type of expository essay shows the causal link between one or more events or conditions. Examples: Electronic system is describe as casual in nature having a relationships between input and output. | 12 | |
| 6827776494 | Celebratory ode | Celebrates something. Example: All hail the brave and wise Latina! Compelling is her story! And jurisprudence her demeanor — She's on the path to glory! | 13 | |
| 6827776510 | Classification and comparrison | Grouping of parts into classes or part families based on design attributes; when coding we assign numbers/symbols to them. Example: The whole Hindu population of India can be divided into four castes or varna. | 14 | |
| 6827776511 | Complex structure | one independent clause & at least one dependent clause. Example: "John left when his sister arrived." | 15 | |
| 6827776512 | Conclusive logic | putting an end to debate or question especially by reason of irrefutably. Example: the archaeological discovery was conclusive proof that the Vikings had indeed settled in North America around 1000 a.d. | 16 | |
| 6827780025 | Couplet | A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a separate stanza in a poem. Example: "Blessed are you whose worthiness gives scope,/Being had, to triumph; being lacked, to hope." | 17 | |
| 6827780136 | Dactyl | A metrical foot consisting of one accented syllable followed by two unaccented syllables. Example: Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them Volley'd and thunder'd | 18 | |
| 6827780137 | Diction | A writer's or speaker's choice of words. Example: "Hey, what's up, man? Lookin' cool in those shades you're wearin'!" | 19 | |
| 6828084779 | Dimeter | 2 feet per line. Example: When I descend Toward the brink I stand and look And stop and drink And bathe my wings, | 20 | |
| 6828086811 | Discursive Memoir | personal experience. Example: Autobiography | 21 | |
| 6828086812 | Dramatic Dialogue | Playwrights also indicate non-verbal communication: silences, gestures, rhythms, and visual images. Example: JIM: Aw, aw, aw. Is it broken? LAURA: Now it is just like all the other horses. JIM: It's lost its— LAURA: Horn! It doesn't matter. . . . [smiling] I'll just imagine he had an operation. The horn was removed to make him feel less—freakish! | 22 | |
| 6828089956 | Dramatic Irony | Irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play. Example: Two people are engaged to be married but the audience knows that the man is planning to run away with another woman. | 23 | |
| 6828092199 | Elaborate Metaphors | A metaphor that an author develops over the course of many lines or an entire piece of literature. Example: "Bobby Holloway says my imagination is a three-hundred-ring circus. Currently I was in ring two hundred and ninety-nine, with elephants dancing and clowns cart wheeling and tigers leaping through rings of fire. The time had come to step back, leave the main tent, go buy some popcorn and a Coke, bliss out, cool down." | 24 | |
| 6828092200 | Elegy | a sorrowful poem or speech. Example: "Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear,/Compels me to disturb your season due:/For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime,/Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer" | 25 | |
| 6828094692 | Elevated Diction | formal or lofty speech. Example: "Could you be so kind as to pass me the milk?" Vs. "Give me that!" | 26 | |
| 6828094693 | Ellipsis | in a sentence, the omission of a word or words replaced by three periods. Example: "...sure." | 27 | |
| 6828096158 | Emblem | a symbol, sign, token. Example: On the sides of the cake, she drew the Toyota emblem, finishing up with some scrolls. | 28 | |
| 6828096159 | Euphemisms | a word used in place of another word that is viewed as more disagreeable or offensive. Example: ""downsizing" as a euphemism for cuts" | 29 | |
| 6828100979 | Evaluative Arguments | An evaluative argument makes a judgment on the performance of a particular item in its category. Example: "good" or "fair" or "unusual," etc. Or you may use any other term that connotes evaluation - i.e., "wise," "unwise," "solid," "shaky," "unfortunate." | 30 | |
| 6828103431 | Expository | Explanatory. Example: "Chocolate chip cookies are one of the most popular desserts in the world. They can be either crispy or soft and have a sweet smell to them reminiscent of a bakery. They taste rich and melt in your mouth. When they bake, they 'wrinkle' up in the oven, and the combination of the nooks and crannies in the dough with the mouth-watering chocolate chips on top make them hard to resist." | 31 | |
| 6828104763 | Extended Metaphor | A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work. Example: "But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the East, and Juliet is the sun! Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief." | 32 | |
| 6828104764 | First person Narrative | a narrative told by a character involved in the story, using first-person pronouns. Example: "I" and "We" | 33 | |
| 6828107278 | Foreshadow | A narrative device that hints at coming events; often builds suspense or anxiety in the reader. Example: A gun is a sign of upcoming events. Sometimes it will be hidden in a drawer or glove compartment. | 34 | |
| 6828107279 | Heroic Epic | epic that has the main purpose of telling the life story of a great hero. Example: Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace | 35 | |
| 6828109929 | Hexameter | 6 feet per line. Example: Now had the season returned, when the nights grow colder and longer, And the retreating sun the sign of the Scorpion enters. Birds of passage sailed through the leaden air, from the ice-bound, Desolate northern bays to the shores of tropical islands. | 36 | |
| 6828109930 | Hyperbole | A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor. Example: It was so cold I saw polar bears wearing jackets. | 37 | |
| 6828112602 | Hypothetical | based on an assumption or guess; used as a provisional or tentative idea to guide or direct investigation. Example: a presenter is discussing statistical probability, instead of explaining probability in terms of equations, it may make more sense for the presenter to make up a hypothetical example. | 38 | |
| 6828112603 | Iambic | A common meter in poetry consisting of an unrhymed line with five feet or accents, each foot containing an unaccented syllable and an accented syllable. Example: The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree | 39 | |
| 6828114376 | Imagery | Description that appeals to the senses. Example: sight, sound, smell, touch, taste | 40 | |
| 6828699394 | Inference | A conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning. Example: We had to put up with loud noise and constant interference from the neighbors. | 41 | |
| 6828699395 | Irony | A contrast between expectation and reality. Example: There are roaches infesting the office of a pest control service. | 42 | |
| 6828701339 | Lists | a series of names or other items written or printed together in a meaningful grouping or sequence so as to constitute a record sequence so as to constitute a record. Example: Eggs, cheese, milk. | 43 | |
| 6828701340 | Lyric | A type of poetry that explores the poet's personal interpretation of and feelings about the world. Example: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date. Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed, | 44 | |
| 6828703450 | Malapropism | a word humorously misused. Example: "Illiterate him quite from your memory" (obliterate) and "She's as headstrong as an allegory" (alligator) | 45 | |
| 6828703451 | Metaphysical Conceits | Extended metaphor that controls the entire poem. Example: "Thou counterfeit'st a bark, a sea, a wind; For still thy eyes, which I may call the sea, Do ebb and flow with tears; the bark thy body is, Sailing in this salt flood; the winds, thy sighs; Who, raging with thy tears, and they with them, Without a sudden calm, will overset Thy tempest-tossed body." | 46 | |
| 6828707694 | Multiple Modifiers | Descriptive words, such as adjectives and adverbs. Example: Happy, silly, handsome. | 47 | |
| 6828707695 | Narrative Ballad | A form of poetry that tells a story. Example: Light do I see within my Lady's eyes And loving spirits in its plenisphere Which bear in strange delight on my heart's care Till Joy's awakened from that sepulcher. | 48 | |
| 6828710585 | Non Sequitur | something that does not logically follow. Example: The school in which my child goes to school is big. The classroom must be big. | 49 | |
| 6828712090 | Direct object | the object that receives the direct action of the verb. Example: the dog in "Jimmy fed the dog." | 50 | |
| 6828712091 | Ode | A lyric poem usually marked by serious, respectful, and exalted feelings toward the subject.. Example: There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight To me did seem Appareled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore;- | 51 | |
| 6828713583 | Octave | 8 line stanza. Example: For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side Of my darling, my darling, my life and my bride, In the sepulcher there by the sea, In her tomb by the sounding sea. | 52 | |
| 6828713584 | Omniscient | (adj.) knowing everything; having unlimited awareness or understanding. Example: The Scarlet Letter, is an omniscient one, who scrutinizes the characters and narrates the story in a way that shows the readers that he has more knowledge. | 53 | |
| 6828728759 | Onomatopoeia | A word that imitates the sound it represents. Example: Boom, slap, pow | 54 | |
| 6828884745 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. Example: Jumbo shrimp. | 55 | |
| 6828884746 | Parable | A simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson. Example: Bible exerts. | 56 | |
| 6828885782 | Paradox | A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. Example: Less is more. | 57 | |
| 6828886900 | Parallel structures | the use of similar forms in writing for nouns, verbs, phrases, or thoughts. Example: "Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him." | 58 | |
| 6828889899 | Parallel syntax | repetition of words, phrases, and clauses used in a concise manner. Example: Ashley likes to ski, to swim and to jump. | 59 | |
| 6828902267 | Pastoral Elegy | a poem about both death and idyllic rural life. Example: "I would not be standing here today nor standing where I stand every day had she not chosen to sit down. I know that. I know that. I know that. I know that, and I honor that. Had she not chosen to say we shall not—we shall not be moved." | 60 | |
| 6828902268 | Pentameter | a line of verse consisting of five metrical feet. Example: If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again! it had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound, | 61 | |
| 6828906731 | Periodic sentence | A sentence that presents its central meaning in a main clause at the end. Example: In spite of heavy snow and cold temperatures, the game continued. | 62 | |
| 6829016892 | Personification | A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes. Example: Lightning danced across the sky. | 63 | |
| 6829016893 | Phrases | a small group of words standing together as a conceptual unit, typically forming a component of a clause. Example: The lost puppy was a wet and stinky dog. | 64 | |
| 6829018756 | Poetic drama | a narrative involving conflict. Example: "Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil!—prophet still, if bird or devil! By that Heaven that bends above us—by that God we both adore— Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore— Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore." | 65 | |
| 6829018757 | Point of view | The perspective from which a story is told. Example: "I felt like I was getting drowned with shame and disgrace." | 66 | |
| 6829020197 | Puns | A play on words. Example: Santa's helpers are known as subordinate Clauses. | 67 | |
| 6829020198 | Qualifier | a word or phrase that clarifies, modifies, or limits the meaning of another word or phrase. Example: Very good | 68 | |
| 6829023588 | Reflective Narrative | A type of personal narrative in which writers share insights and observations about life. Example: Diary entries | 69 | |
| 6829093596 | Rhetorical Purpose | the reason for the speaker's remarks; or a definition of the attitude that the author would like the reader to adopt. Example: seeks to persuade an audience, seeks to manipulate the way that audience thinks about the given subject. | 70 | |
| 6829094614 | Rhetorical Shift | this occurs when the author of an essay significantly alters his or her diction, syntax, or both. Example: a spokesperson from the CDC is explaining a disease outbreak and giving her assessment of it. She might interrupt her explanation (expository mode) to give a full description of the illness' symptoms and means of treatment. | 71 | |
| 6829094615 | Rhyme royal | 7 lines, poetry, iambic pentameter, fixed rhyme scheme. Example: The concept time is quite beyond my ken. String theory baffles brilliant folks and me. I'll not wax philosophical again. Perhaps I did already, shame on me. We'd be confused in synchronicity. For flies who live for but a single day, young boys and men would seem two breeds at play. We can tell larva and the grown-up fly are one, we see them grow. They must mistake we humans as a species that won't die | 72 | |
| 6829097073 | Rhythm | A regularly recurring sequence of events or actions. Example: "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" | 73 | |
| 6829098456 | Self-Parody | The intentional or inadvertent parodying or exaggeration of one's usual behavior or speech. Example: "they are soft-spoken and clean-cut to the point of self-parody" | 74 | |
| 6829101723 | Sestet | 6 line stanza. Example: "And when I feel, fair creature of an hour! That I shall never look upon thee more, Never have relish in the faery power Of unreflecting love! — then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till Love and Fame to nothingness do sink." | 75 | |
| 6829101724 | Slant rhyme | Words that end in similar but not exact sounds. Example: "Hope" is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all, | 76 | |
| 6829105438 | Soliloquy | A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage. Example: "Yet art thou still but Faustus and a man" | 77 | |
| 6829105439 | Speaker | A person who speaks. Example: The speaker in Frost's poem "The Road Not Taken" is a conflicted person, who does not tell anything about himself. | 78 | |
| 6829108891 | Spondee | a metrical unit with stressed-stressed syllables. Example: By the shore of Gitche Gumee, By the shining Big-Sea-Water, At the doorway of his wigwam,... All the air was full of freshness, All the earth was bright and joyous, And before him, through the sunshine, Westward toward the neighboring forest... Burning, singing in the sunshine. | 79 | |
| 6829268330 | Stanza | A group of lines in a poem. Example: I love to write Day and night What would my heart do But cry, sigh and be blue If I could not write (Second Stanza) Writing feels good And I know it should Who could have knew That what I do Is write, write, write | 80 | |
| 6829270795 | Stream of conscious narration | A method of narration that describes in words the flow of thoughts in the minds of the characters. Example: "... it is nothing joined; it flows. A 'river' or a 'stream' is the metaphors by which it is most naturally described. In talking of it hereafter, let's call it the stream of thought, consciousness, or subjective life." | 81 | |
| 6829270796 | Style | A basic and distinctive mode of expression. Example: The pleasures of the imagination, taken in their full extent, are not so gross as those of sense... A man of polite imagination is let into a great many pleasures... | 82 | |
| 6829273739 | Symbol | A thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract. Example: Black is used to represent death or evil. | 83 | |
| 6829274965 | Synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa. Example: The word "bread" can be used to represent food in general or money. | 84 | |
| 6829274966 | Tetrameter | Four feet. Example: 'I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth's sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day, And lifts her leafy arms to pray; | 85 | |
| 6829278730 | Traditional Ballad stanza | The four-line stanza, known as a quatrain, most often found in the folk ballad. Example: It is an ancient Mariner, And he stoppeth one of three. 'By thy long grey beard and glittering eye, Now wherefore stopp'st thou me? | 86 | |
| 6829280125 | Third person narration | The story is told from the point of view of an outside narrator. Example: Not using "I" or "We". | 87 | |
| 6829282077 | Trimeter | Three feet. Example: "Is like a pleasant sleep,/ Wherein I rest and heed/ The dreams that by me sweep." | 88 | |
| 6829286224 | Trochee | A metrical foot consisting of one accented syllable followed by one unaccented syllable. Example: words include "garden" and "highway." | 89 | |
| 6829389884 | Understatement | the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is. Example: "a master of English understatement" | 90 | |
| 6829389885 | Anger | ire. Example: "the colonel's anger at his daughter's disobedience" | 91 | |
| 6829391581 | Appreciative | Expressing or feeling thankfulness. Example: "the team is very appreciative of your support" | 92 | |
| 6829393054 | Assumed arrogance | The quality of being arrogant. Example: "the arrogance of this man is astounding" | 93 | |
| 6829393055 | Awe | Solemn wonder. Example: A person is filled with admiration at the sight of the Grand Canyon | 94 | |
| 6829395756 | Bitterness tempted by maturity | Having a harsh, disagreeably acrid taste. Example: "And you?" she asked, bitterness in her voice. | 95 | |
| 6829395757 | Broadly sympathetic | Feeling, showing, or expressing sympathy. Example: "he was sympathetic toward staff with family problems" | 96 | |
| 6829398793 | Careful objectivity | The state or quality of being objective. Example: The very notion of objectivity and truth therefore disappears. | 97 | |
| 6829398794 | Cheerful glee | Open delight or pleasure. Example: exultant joy; exultation. | 98 | |
| 6829400418 | Conciliatory | -describes an approach that is flexible and yielding; willing to make concessions to restore harmony. Example: a handshake after you have just clearly defeated and angered your opponent. | 99 | |
| 6829719780 | Cynical Exaggeration | A statement that represents something as better or worse than it really is. Example: "it would be an exaggeration to say I had morning sickness, but I did feel queasy" | 100 | |
| 6829719781 | Despondant | Depressed, gloomy. Example: Marilyn was despondent after her husband of fifty years died. | 101 | |
| 6829722136 | Didactic | Instructive. Example: Here is a poor burdened sinner. I come from the City of Destruction, but am going to Mount Zion, that I may be delivered from the Wrath to come; I would therefore, Sir, since I am informed that by this Gate is the Way thither, know if you are willing to let me in? | 102 | |
| 6829722137 | Disappointment | dismay. Example: "to her disappointment, there was no chance to talk privately with Luke" | 103 | |
| 6829724157 | Dispassionate | Unbiased, not having a selfish or personal motivation. Example: Calm, lacking emotion | 104 | |
| 6829778138 | Elegant Disdain | to look upon or treat with contempt. Example: despise; scorn. | 105 | |
| 6829787167 | Emotional judgement | The forming of an opinion, estimate, notion, or conclusion, as from circumstances presented to the mind. Example: Don't rush to judgment without examining the evidence. | 106 | |
| 6829809628 | Expansive and self-dramatizing | Exaggerating one's own qualities, role, situation. Example: dramatic effect or as an attention-getting device; presenting oneself dramatically. | 107 | |
| 6829819463 | Fearful | apprehensive. Example: Timorous | 108 | |
| 6829826026 | Feigned Bitterness | Fake anger. Example: Tom's mom was only mad at him to make him a better person. | 109 | |
| 6829827744 | Feigned sympathy | Fake pity or sorrow. Example: Jake didn't really care if his friend's mom died or not. | 110 | |
| 6829832766 | Fond Admiration | A feeling of wonder, pleasure, or approval. Example: The look in the eyes of a couple in love. | 111 | |
| 6829843795 | Forced glee | forced open delight or pleasure. Example: exultant joy; exultation. | 112 | |
| 6829845197 | Gentle disapproval | The act or state of disapproving. Example: Andre raised his eyebrow in polite disapproval, the same way his father did. | 113 | |
| 6829845198 | Gentle sarcasm | harsh or bitter derision or irony. Example: "Well, this day was a total waste of makeup." | 114 | |
| 6829855610 | Gratitude made richer by love. | The quality or feeling of being grateful or thankful. Example: He carried on with Bianca like the sister she now was, and Jule couldn't help feeling a sense of gratitude towards the small woman with the quick smile, warm gaze, and healing energy. | 115 | |
| 6829857613 | Grudging respect | Esteem for or a sense of the worth or excellence of a person, a personal quality or ability. Example: Something considered as a manifestation of a personal quality or ability. | 116 | |
| 6829859917 | Grudgingly tolerant | displaying or reflecting reluctance or unwillingness. Example: grudging acceptance of the victory of an opponent. | 117 | |
| 6829892450 | Hopeful | full of hope. Example: Expressing hope | 118 | |
| 6829892451 | Intelligent respect | Esteem for or a sense of the worth or excellence of a person, a personal quality or ability. Example: Something considered as a manifestation of a personal quality or ability. | 119 | |
| 6829958311 | Ironic Anger | A strong feeling of displeasure and belligerence aroused by a wrong. Example: wrath. | 120 | |
| 6829960841 | Ironic grimness | Stern and admitting of no appeasement or compromise. | 121 | |
| 6829963516 | Irreversible Respect | The irreversible change of respect one has for someone or something. Example: Loving an idol. | 122 | |
| 6829965286 | Jaded Disgust | To cause loathing or nausea in. Examples: Hillary Clinton | 123 | |
| 6829997203 | Jealousy | a protective reaction to a perceived threat to a valued relationship. Example: Envious of someone. | 124 | |
| 6829999022 | Light and cheerful | Characterized by or expressive of good spirits or cheerfulness. Example: Having a festive outing with family. | 125 | |
| 6830005711 | Mild Amusement | Somewhat finding something funny. Example: Someone telling a dirty joke. | 126 | |
| 6830005712 | Mildly disapproving | Expressing an unfavorable opinion. Example: "he shot a disapproving glance at her" | 127 | |
| 6830026842 | Nostalgic | longing for the past. Example: Finding a piece of your childhood and reminiscing about the past. | 128 | |
| 6830026843 | Objectivity | neutral, fact-based approach. Example: "the piece lacked any objectivity" | 129 | |
| 6830028704 | Open hostility | Animosity. Example: "their hostility to all outsiders" | 130 | |
| 6830045264 | Perplexity strengthened by resentment | Inability to deal with or understand something complicated or unaccountable. Example: "she paused in perplexity" | 131 | |
| 6830045265 | Pity | Condolence. Example: "Clare didn't know whether to envy or pity them" | 132 | |
| 6830055646 | Playful seriousness | Full of play in a serious fashion. Example: Humorous, jocular. | 133 | |
| 6830055647 | Regret | Remorse. Example: "I regret not going to college and getting a degree." | 134 | |
| 6830058438 | Reproachful | Expressing disapproval or disappointment. Example: "Excuse my coming to you, cousin," she said in a reproachful and agitated voice. | 135 | |
| 6830086570 | Respect strengthened by distance | A feeling of deep admiration for someone or something elicited by their abilities, qualities, or achievements. Example: "the director had a lot of respect for Douglas as an actor" | 136 | |
| 6830086571 | Respectful awe | Seeing something amazing in respect for it. Example: "they gazed in awe at the small mountain of diamonds" | 137 | |
| 6830088708 | Reverent | Feeling or expressing very deep respect and awe. Example: "Finally I am back on the team" | 138 | |
| 6830110562 | Sarcastic Vindictiveness | Having or showing a strong or unreasoning desire for revenge. Example: "The criticism was both vindictive and personalized" | 139 | |
| 6830112405 | Sardonic condemnation | The expression of very strong disapproval; censure. Example: "There was strong international condemnation of the attack" | 140 | |
| 6830112406 | Scornful | Contemptuous. Example: "The justices have been scornful of the government's conduct" | 141 | |
| 6830115377 | Servility imparted by discipline | An excessive willingness to serve or please others. Example: "A classic example of media servility" | 142 | |
| 6830115378 | Sharply Critical | Expressing adverse or disapproving comments or judgments. Example: "He was critical of many U.S. welfare programs" | 143 | |
| 6830117745 | Somber melancholy | A feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause. Example: "An air of melancholy surrounded him" | 144 | |
| 6830117746 | Testy and critical | Easily irritated. Example: Impatient and somewhat bad-tempered. | 145 | |
| 6830120449 | Thoughtless contempt | The feeling that a person or a thing is beneath consideration, worthless, or deserving scorn. Example: "He showed his contempt for his job by doing it very badly" | 146 | |
| 6830120450 | Tragic | A literary character who makes an error of judgment or has a fatal flaw that, combined with fate and external forces, brings on a tragedy. Example: "The shooting was a tragic accident" | 147 | |
| 6830120451 | Vaguely amused | Cause (someone) to find something funny; entertain. Example: "He made faces to amuse her" | 148 | |
| 6830122839 | Warm affirmation | The action or process of affirming something or being affirmed. Example: "He nodded in affirmation" | 149 | |
| 6830125458 | Wry disdain | The feeling that someone or something is unworthy of one's consideration or respect; contempt. Example: "Her upper lip curled in disdain" | 150 |
