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| 10560500269 | Tenacious | Adjective Tending to keep a firm hold of something; clinging or adhering closely. | 0 | |
| 10560505895 | Lithesome | Adjective (Especially of a person's body) thin, supple, and graceful. | 1 | |
| 10560511622 | Profligacy | Noun Reckless extravagance or wastefulness in the use of resources; licentious or dissolute behavior. | 2 | |
| 10560515987 | Punitive | Adjective Inflicting or intended as punishment. | 3 | |
| 10560519017 | Admonitory | Adjective Giving or conveying a warning or reprimand. | 4 | |
| 10560522397 | Misanthropic | Adjective Disliking humankind and avoiding human society. | 5 | |
| 10560526678 | Personification | A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes. | 6 | |
| 10560528358 | Metaphor | A comparison without using "like" or "as." | 7 | |
| 10560532147 | Simile | A comparison using "like" or "as." | 8 | |
| 10560532148 | Hyperbole | exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally. | 9 | |
| 10570805865 | Ephemeral | Adjective Lasting for a very short time. | 10 | |
| 10570809443 | Boon | Noun A favor or request; a thing that is helpful or beneficial. | 11 | |
| 10570813435 | Obsequious | Adjective Obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree | 12 | |
| 10570820968 | Ingratiating | Adjective Intended to gain approval or favor; sycophantic. | 13 | |
| 10577111121 | Rueful | Adjective Expressing sorrow or regret | 14 | |
| 10577119507 | Apostrophe | Noun An exclamatory passage in a speech or poem addressed to a person (typically one who is dead or absent) or thing (typically one that is personified). | 15 | |
| 10577123922 | Understatement | The presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is; opposite of hyperbole | 16 | |
| 10577126474 | Irony | When the unexpected occurs. | 17 | |
| 10577134448 | Metonymy | The substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant, for example suit for business executive, or the track for horse racing. It is, essentially, the use of a linked term to stand-in for another term. A figure of speech in which someting is represented by another thing that is related to it. | 18 | |
| 10577139863 | Synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa, as in Cleveland won by six runs (meaning "Cleveland's baseball team"). | 19 | |
| 10617568481 | Antithesis | Noun A person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else. | 20 | |
| 10617571843 | Moribund | Adjective At the point of death. | 21 | |
| 10617574826 | Labyrinth | Noun A complicated, irregular network of passages or paths in which it is difficult to find one's way; a maze. | 22 | |
| 10617582316 | Tenement | Noun A room or set or rooms forming a separate residence within a house or block of apartments; or a piece of land held by an owner. | 23 | |
| 10617594669 | Depravity | Noun Moral corruption; wickedness. | 24 | |
| 10617597846 | Allusion | An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference. | 25 | |
| 10617604145 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction. | 26 | |
| 10617608818 | Paradox | A seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true. | 27 | |
| 10617613475 | Onomatopoeia | The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named. | 28 |
