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| 2117735124 | Acerbic | Sour/harsh/bitter in taste | 0 | |
| 2117738723 | Adamantine | Unbreakable | 1 | |
| 2117744452 | Ad hominem | Commenting on or against an opponent to undermine him instead of his argument | 2 | |
| 2117747241 | Aesthetic | A sense of beauty, pertaining to beauty | 3 | |
| 2117750025 | Allegory | A story/poem/picture/ that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning/moral | 4 | |
| 2117751797 | Alliteration | Repetition of sounds | 5 | |
| 2117755298 | Allusion | A passing/casual reference, an incidental mention of something, either directly or by implication | 6 | |
| 2117758075 | Ambivalence | The coexistence of opposing feelings towards a person, object, or idea | 7 | |
| 2117762546 | Anadiplosis | Repetition of the words/phrase at the end of a sentence | 8 | |
| 2117767333 | Anaphone | An anagram of sound that is, the sounds in one word are rearranged in a subsequent word or phrase | 9 | |
| 2117769999 | Anaphora | (Parallelism) when successive lines/phrases begin with the same words | 10 | |
| 2117776788 | Antanagoge | Putting a positive spin on something that acknowledges to be negative or difficult | 11 | |
| 2117782499 | Antihropomorphism | The act of giving the characteristics of humans to animals, a God, or an inanimate object | 12 | |
| 2117787081 | Antimetabole | Literary term that repeats a phrase in reverse order | 13 | |
| 2117791499 | Antiphrasis | A phrase or word is employed Ina way that it's opposite to it's literal meaning | 14 | |
| 2117793458 | Antithesis | Opposition or the direct opposite | 15 | |
| 2117795900 | Aphorism | A pithy observation that contains a general truth | 16 | |
| 2117806717 | Apophasis | Denial of one's intention to speak of a subject that is the same time named, or insinuated | 17 | |
| 2117816105 | Aporia | The expression of a simulated or real doubt, as about where to begin or what to do or say A figure of speech in which the sleeker expresses real or simulated down or perplexity | 18 | |
| 2117820535 | Apostrophe | Used to indicated plurals, abbreviations, pronouncing ownership | 19 | |
| 2117822913 | Asyndeton | The absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence | 20 | |
| 2117827003 | Begging the question | A fallacy in which the premise has the claim that the conclusion is true or assumed that the conclusion is true | 21 | |
| 2117828385 | Benevolent | Desiring to help others | 22 | |
| 2117831651 | Bittersweet | Both pleasant and painful/regretful | 23 | |
| 2117837885 | Carpe diem | The enjoyment of the pleasure of the moment without concern for the future | 24 | |
| 2117843862 | Catharsis | The purging/relieving of emotional tensions, especially through art/music (tradegy) | 25 | |
| 2117847757 | Chiasmus | A reversal in the Oder of words in an otherwise parallel phrase | 26 | |
| 2117849507 | Clinical | Related to the treatment of patients | 27 | |
| 2117852208 | Colloquial | Of or relating to conversation Language that is informal or even slang | 28 | |
| 2117854726 | Condescending | Showing a patronizing descent from dignity or superiority | 29 | |
| 2117856575 | Conjecture | A theory or to make a guess at something | 30 | |
| 2117857670 | Connotation | The second meaning of a word | 31 | |
| 2117859008 | Consonance | Agreement between opinions/actions | 32 | |
| 2117862645 | Contemptuous | Showing/expressing disdain Scornful, disrespectful | 33 | |
| 2117864437 | Copious | Abundant in supply or quantity | 34 | |
| 2117866449 | Cryptic | Mysterious in meaning/secret | 35 | |
| 2117868107 | Cynical | Distrusting the motives of others | 36 | |
| 2117873655 | Cumulative sentence (loose sentence) | Begins with a main clause that us followed by phrases and/or clauses that modify the main clause | 37 | |
| 2117876232 | Decorum | Appropriateness of behavior of conduct | 38 | |
| 2117877811 | Denotaton | The literal dictionary definition of a word | 39 | |
| 2117879863 | Despondent | Feelings/showing profound hopelessness | 40 | |
| 2117883345 | Diacope | The repetition of a word or phrase broken up be one or more intervening words | 41 | |
| 2117885207 | Didactic | Designed/intended to teach people something | 42 | |
| 2117889552 | Dirimens copulatio | A term for a statement that balances one idea with a contrasting idea | 43 | |
| 2117893172 | Disdainful | Feeling strong dislike/disapproval for something or someone you feel does not deserve respect:feeling or showing disdain | 44 | |
| 2117894013 | Disingenuous | Not sincere | 45 | |
| 2117897213 | Doggerel | Clumsy poetry(often irregular and informal) and humorous in effect, comic by nature | 46 | |
| 2117899600 | Doleful | To be down in the dumps Have a hole in your soul To be full of woe | 47 | |
| 2117901733 | Double entendre | A double meaning or when a word is used that can be understood in two ways | 48 | |
| 2117905969 | Dystopia | Opposite of utopia A society characterized by human misery | 49 | |
| 2117907149 | Elegiac | Full of morning and sorrow | 50 | |
| 2117909254 | Elegy | A mourning/melancholy poem | 51 | |
| 2117912399 | Ellipsis | The act of leaving out one or more words that are not necessary for s phrase to be understood | 52 | |
| 2117914644 | Emulation | The act of trying to match or equalize something | 53 | |
| 2117916298 | Enigmatic | Something that is like a puzzle or riddle that can't be understood | 54 | |
| 2117917973 | Enthymeme | An argument in which one side is not stated | 55 | |
| 2117920018 | Enumeration | The process of listening | 56 | |
| 2117922487 | Epiphany | An appearance/manifestation of a divine reality | 57 | |
| 2117928123 | Epigraph | An inscription/apposite quotation -on a building/statue/ect. - at the beginning of a book | 58 | |
| 2117936448 | Epizeuxis | The repetition of s word or phrase in immediate succession | 59 | |
| 2117939854 | Erudite | Characterized by great knowledge: learned, or scholarly | 60 | |
| 2117941301 | Ethos | The beliefs or ideas by which a person/group likes | 61 | |
| 2117949097 | Euphemism | A mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing | 62 | |
| 2117950231 | Euphoric | A state of extreme happiness or joy | 63 | |
| 2117951857 | Exemplar | One that serves as a model or example | 64 | |
| 2117953627 | Expletive | An oath or swear word or exclamation | 65 | |
| 2117962445 | Explication | An explanation, interpretation | 66 |
