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| 9215512738 | Adroit(adj) | Clever or skillful in using the hands or mind | 0 | |
| 9215512739 | Anathema(n) | A person or thing detested or loathed | 1 | |
| 9215512740 | Acquiescient(adj) | Ready to accept something without protest, or to do what someone else wants | 2 | |
| 9215512742 | Celerity(n) | Swiftness of movement | 3 | |
| 9215512743 | Dirge(n) | A lament for the dead,especially one forming part of a funeral rite | 4 | |
| 9215512746 | Truculent(adj) | Eager or quick to argue or fight aggressively defiant | 5 | |
| 9215512747 | Quixotic(adj) | Exceedingly idealistic; unrealistic and impractical | 6 | |
| 9215512748 | Metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable. | 7 | |
| 9215512749 | Personification | the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form. | 8 | |
| 9215512750 | Onomatopoeia | the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named (e.g., cuckoo, sizzle ). | 9 | |
| 9215512751 | Situational irony | irony involving a situation in which actions have an effect that is opposite from what was intended, so that the outcome is contrary to what was expected. | 10 | |
| 9215512752 | Dramatic irony | irony that is inherent in speeches or a situation of a drama and is understood by the audience but not grasped by the characters in the play. | 11 |