13491535505 | prosperous | Successful and wealthy | 0 | |
13491557745 | perilous | dangerous | 1 | |
13491561999 | excursion | a trip or outing | 2 | |
13491615791 | cordial | warm and friendly | 3 | |
13491615792 | cordiality | sincere affection and kindness | 4 | |
13491669728 | bohemian | unconventional (in an artistic way) | 5 | |
13491784616 | precedent | an example that may serve as a basis for imitation or later action | 6 | |
13491795550 | ichthyology | study of fish | 7 | |
13491931432 | pessimistic | seeing the worst side of things; no hope | 8 | |
13491931463 | optimistic | hopeful, cheerful | 9 | |
13491934924 | meticulous | extremely careful; particular about details | 10 | |
13492013666 | garish | (adj.) glaring; tastelessly showy or overdecorated in a vulgar or offensive way; gaudy | 11 | |
13492048250 | conservative | traditional | 12 | |
13492064292 | malevolent | having or showing a wish to do evil to others | 13 | |
13492093165 | lax | careless | 14 | |
13492093166 | morally | expressing correct behavior; ethically | 15 | |
13492138701 | Anecodote | breif story told to entertain or to make a point | 16 | |
13492148827 | inconsitent | not consistent; orderly | 17 | |
13492158816 | earnest | Serious and sincere | 18 | |
13492164446 | irrefutable | impossible to disprove; beyond argument | 19 | |
13492199639 | erratic | (adj.) not regular or consistent; different from what is ordinarily expected; undependable | 20 | |
13492219469 | perverse | (adj.) inclined to go against what is expected; stubborn; turned away from what is good and proper | 21 | |
13509195466 | benevolent | kindly, charitable | 22 | |
13509339370 | couplet | Two consecutive lines of poetry that [last word]rhyme | 23 | |
13509383770 | imperceptible | impossible to perceive | 24 | |
13509412227 | invigorate | to fill with strength and energy | 25 | |
13509446020 | sardonic | grimly or scornfully mocking, bitterly sarcastic | 26 | |
13509471517 | surcease | to come to an end | 27 | |
13509471518 | Atonement | reparation for a wrong or injury | 28 | |
13509502573 | Parody | A work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect and/or ridicule. | 29 | |
13509505950 | Allegory | A story in which each aspect of the story has a symbolic meaning outside the tale itself. | 30 | |
13509547130 | nostalgia | a longing for something past; homesickness | 31 | |
13509553021 | elegy | a sad or mournful poem | 32 | |
13509560893 | ravaged | violently destroyed | 33 | |
13584386928 | nebulous | vague; cloudy; lacking clearly defined form | 34 | |
13584468280 | enthrall | (v.) to captivate, charm, hold spellbound; to enslave; to imprison | 35 | |
13584516824 | impute | to attribute to someone | 36 | |
13584552636 | opulence | wealth, affluence, abundance | 37 | |
13584683207 | Euphemism | An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant | 38 | |
13584715943 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love. | 39 | |
13584735002 | Assonance | Repetition of vowel sounds | 40 | |
13584742550 | Introspection | examination of one's own thoughts and feelings | 41 | |
13584745310 | repress | to hold back; to put down or check by force | 42 | |
13584942499 | sublime | of such excellence, grandeur, or beauty as to inspire great admiration or awe | 43 | |
13585009287 | lofty | (adj.) very high; noble | 44 | |
13600589792 | Sestina | a poem with six stanzas of six lines and a final triplet, all stanzas having the same six words at the line-ends in six different sequences that follow a fixed pattern, and with all six words appearing in the closing three-line envoi. | 45 | |
13600598365 | Shakespearean sonnet | A 14 line poem with a specific rhyme scheme (ABAB CDCD EFEF GG) | 46 | |
13600604623 | Petrarchan sonnet | 14 total Lines poem that has one rhyming octave (8 lines) and one rhyming sestet (6 lines) abbaabba, ut the rhyme scheme of last six lines, or sestet, varies | 47 | |
13600632042 | ode | A lyric poem usually marked by serious, respectful, and exalted feelings toward the subject. | 48 | |
13600639932 | Ballad | A poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas | 49 | |
13600820567 | concession | a thing that is granted, especially in response to demands; a thing conceded. | 50 | |
13600845550 | laudatory | expressing praise | 51 | |
13600870158 | surreptitious | (adj.) stealthy, secret, intended to escape observation; made or accomplished by fraud | 52 | |
13600947295 | profundity | great depth of intellect, feeling, or meaning | 53 | |
13601024093 | Consonance | Repetition of a consonant sound within two or more words in close proximity. | 54 | |
13601079087 | admonition | warning | 55 | |
13601083061 | eulogy | a formal speech praising a person who has died | 56 | |
13601086534 | Parable | A simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson | 57 | |
13711251150 | eulogy | a formal speech praising a person who has died | 58 | |
13711255120 | pastoral | A work of literature dealing with rural life; country life | 59 | |
13711261827 | Parable | A simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson | 60 | |
13711268807 | raconteur | witty, skillful storyteller | 61 | |
13711268808 | sactimonious | pretending to be righteous | 62 | |
13711271589 | satirist | a humorist who uses ridicule and irony and sarcasm | 63 | |
13711271590 | satire | A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies. | 64 | |
13711278244 | Surrealsim | an art movement that sought to link the world of dreams with real life that was inspired by Freud's ideas | 65 | |
13711287912 | thwart | (v.) to oppose successfully; to prevent, frustrate | 66 | |
13711287913 | wry | (adj.) twisted, turned to one side; cleverly and often grimly humorous | 67 | |
13711292093 | admonition | warning | 68 |
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