5114552423 | Surrealism | A 20th-century movement in art and literature that sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind. | 0 | |
5114554513 | Mock Heroic Style | Mocking that which is considered heroic. Satire of Heroic | 1 | |
5114556637 | Personification | Giving inanimate objects human qualities or traits. | 2 | |
5114558039 | Anticlimax | A disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events. | 3 | |
5114560671 | Ambivalent | Having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone. | 4 | |
5114565408 | Countenance | A person's face or facial expressions | 5 | |
5114566752 | Abject | Extremely bad, unpleasant, and degrading | 6 | |
5114568208 | Retribution | Punishment inflicted on someone as vengeance for a wrong or criminal act. | 7 | |
5114569991 | Omnipresence | Present everywhere at the same time. (God-like) | 8 | |
5114571922 | Allegory | A short moral story. | 9 | |
5225736989 | Epithet | descriptive word or phrase | 10 | |
5225739039 | Euphemism | an inoffensive expression substituted for an offensive one | 11 | |
5225741879 | Churlish | Having a bad disposition; surly | 12 | |
5225743468 | Eccentric | Conspicuously or extremely unconventional | 13 | |
5225747969 | Inimitable | Matchless | 14 | |
5253892233 | Nostalgia | Longing for something in the past (Typically a happy memory) | 15 | |
5253894574 | Evocation | Stimulation that calls up a particular class of behaviors | 16 | |
5253898987 | Melodramatic | Having excitement and emotional appeal; especially in being exaggerated, or overly emotional | 17 | |
5253901601 | Capricious | Determined by chance or impulse, rather than necessity | 18 | |
5253901602 | Strident | Extremely loud or harsh | 19 | |
5414361689 | Pretentious | Creating an appearance of importance or distinction | 20 | |
5414375429 | Inexorable | Stubborn: Impossible to stop or prevent. | 21 | |
5414381244 | Exasperate | Make furious | 22 | |
5414383121 | Emulate | Strive to equal or match, especially by imitating | 23 | |
5414384052 | Ornate | Marked by complexity and richness of detail | 24 |
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