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10245446821	abase	to degrade, to humiliate	0
10245446822	acerbic	sour, bitter, severe	1
10245447605	brevity	briefness	2
10245447606	bucolic	rural or rustic in nature, country like	3
10245448289	cacophony	harsh sounds, jarring discordant sounds, dissonance	4
10245448290	chicanery	deceitfulness, trickery	5
10245449336	dearth	scarcity, lack	6
10245449337	deluge	inundation, flood	7
10245449338	ebb	To recede or diminish	8
10245450635	ethereal	very light, delicate, heavenly	9
10245450636	feasible	within reason	10
10245451030	fecund	fertile, productive	11
10245451031	gaffe	an embarrassing mistake, a crude social error, blunder, a faux pas	12
10245451032	gist	center and material part, essence	13
10245451909	hackneyed	overused, cliche	14
10245451910	hapless	unlucky	15
10245454847	idiosyncrasy	a behavioral quirk	16
10245454848	imbue	to fill with a certain quality or feeling, to permeate with an idea or emotion	17
10245455657	jilt	to reject (a lover)	18
10245455658	jocular	inclined to joke, merry, amusing or intended to cause amusement	19
10245455659	kindle	to cause or burn to ignite, to arouse or inspire	20
10245456476	kinship	natural connection or family relationship	21
10245458767	lassitude	listlessness, torpor, weariness	22
10245459701	laudable	worthy of being praised	23
10245459702	anaphora	the repetition of the same word or group of words at beginning of successive clauses, sentences, or lines	24
10245461213	anadiplosis	The repetition of the last word from previous line, clause or sentence at beginning of next	25
10245461214	chiasmus	A figure of speech in which two or more clauses are related to each other through reversal of structure	26
10245461881	connotation	The associations that are connected to a certain word or emotion	27
10245462832	ethos	appeal to credibility	28
10245462833	euphemism	a mild word or phrase which substitutes for another which would be undesirable because it is too direct, offensive, or unpleasant	29
10245464122	hyperbole	extreme exaggeration	30
10245464123	logos	appeal to logic	31
10245465020	metonymy	substituting a word for another word closely related to it	32
10245465021	oxymoron	putting two contradictory words together for effect	33
10245466163	pathos	appeal to emotion	34
10245466164	personification	giving human like qualities to animals or objects	35
10245466908	synecdoche	when a part of person or thing is used to represent whole	36
10245466909	tricolon	three parallel elements of same length occurring together in series	37
10245467733	understatement	statement that lessens or minimizes importance of what is meant	38