8861867917 | Acerbic | biting, bitter in tone or taste | 0 | |
8861872195 | Capricious | subject to whim, fickle | 1 | |
8861882045 | Mercurial | characterized by rapid change or temperament | 2 | |
8861897827 | Platitude | an uninspired remark, cliche | 3 | |
8861909743 | Recalcitrant | defiant, unapologetic | 4 | |
8861926904 | Serendipity | luck, finding good things without looking for them | 5 | |
8861933726 | Torpid | lethargic, dormant, lacking motion | 6 | |
8861941321 | Venerate | to regard with respect or to honor | 7 | |
8861951299 | Winsome | charming, pleasing | 8 | |
8861959820 | Anastrophe | inversion of the usual, normal, or logical order of the parts of a sentence. Purpose is rhythm or emphasis or euphony. | 9 | |
8861987741 | Conceit | An unusual, elaborate or startling analogy; a poetic literary device which was common among the metaphysical poets of the 17th century. | 10 | |
8862033987 | Malapropism | a comic misuse of common words | 11 | |
8862038715 | Pun | A play on words based on the multiple meanings of a single word or on words that sound alike but mean different things | 12 | |
8862072986 | Impudent | casually rude, insolent, impertinent | 13 | |
8862079696 | Satire | A literary tone used to ridicule or make fun of human vice or weakness, often with the intent of correcting, or changing, the subject of the satiric attack. | 14 |
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