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| 7985501083 | oxymoron | a contradiction in terms |  | 0 |
| 7985536315 | lugubrious | excessively mournful |  | 1 |
| 7985536316 | irreverent | showing lack of due respect or veneration |  | 2 |
| 7985836745 | placid | calm, peaceful |  | 3 |
| 7985836746 | venerable | profoundly honored |  | 4 |
| 7985836747 | brooding | preoccupied with depressing, morbid, or painful memories or thoughts |  | 5 |
| 7985841673 | gregarious | enjoying the company of others, sociable |  | 6 |
| 7985841674 | demonstrative | expressing emotion freely |  | 7 |
| 7985844280 | periodic sentence | sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end |  | 8 |
| 7985847036 | cumulative sentence | sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence and then builds and adds on |  | 9 |
| 7985849891 | compound-complex sentence | at least one dependent clause and two or more independent clauses |  | 10 |
| 7985969128 | epanalepsis | repetition at the end of a clause of the word that occurred at the beginning of the clause |  | 11 |
| 7985972972 | dirgelike | like a solemn, mournful piece of music; depressing |  | 12 |
| 7985972973 | mordant | (adj.) biting or caustic in thought, manner, or style; sharply or bitterly harsh |  | 13 |
| 7985975762 | saccharine | excessively sweet or sentimental |  | 14 |
| 7985975763 | sanguine | optimistic |  | 15 |
| 7985978487 | perfunctory | done without care; in a routine fashion superficial; performed really as a duty |  | 16 |
| 7985978488 | onerous | troublesome and oppressive; burdensome |  | 17 |
| 7985978489 | anaphora | the repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of consecutive lines or sentences |  | 18 |
| 7985982806 | polysyndeton | the use, for rhetorical effect, of more conjunctions than is necessary or natural |  | 19 |
| 7985985422 | sordid | (adj.) wretchedly poor; run-down; mean or selfish |  | 20 |
| 7986004253 | farce | broad comedy; mockery; humorous play full of silly things happening; ADJ. farcical |  | 21 |
| 7986008815 | antithesis | the direct opposite, a sharp contrast |  | 22 |
| 7986008816 | vacillation | wavering, going back and forth |  | 23 |
| 7986012833 | imagistic | aims to capture a moment and help us experience that moment sensually (through our senses) e.g |  | 24 |
| 7986012834 | man-of-war | a warship, often a large sailing ship, bearing canons and other guns | 25 | |
| 7986015542 | asyndeton | a construction in which elements are presented in a series without conjunctions |  | 26 |
| 7986018571 | metonymy | substituting the name of one object for another object closely associated with it |  | 27 |
| 7986018572 | drollery | something that has a humorous, whimsical, or odd quality |  | 28 |
| 7986021052 | incredulity | the state of being unwilling or unable to believe something |  | 29 |
| 7986024773 | vitriol | cruel and bitter criticism |  | 30 |
