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1-10 Flashcards

1
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Theoretical, without reference to specifics

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Abstract

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2
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Contrary to logic, but sometimes artistically viable

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Absurd

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3
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Assuming a false manner or attitude to impress others

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Affected

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4
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Having two or more possible meanings

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Ambiguous

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5
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Inclined to examine things by studying their contents or parts

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Analytical

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Involving short narratives of interesting events

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Anecdotal

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7
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Resentful, enraged

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Angry

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8
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In the style of an earlier period

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Archaic

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Stern, strict, frugal, unadomed

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Austere

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10
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Pointless and uninteresting

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Banal

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11
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Baroque

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Elaborate, grotesque, and ornamental

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Bizarre

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Unusually strange or odd

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Bland

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Undisturbing, Unemotional, unintersting

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14
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Bombastic

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Pretentious and pompous

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Breezy

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Quick-paced, but sometimes superficial

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16
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Childish

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Immature (Adults or Writing)

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17
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Cinematic

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Having the qualities of a motion picture

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18
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Classical

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Formal, enduring, and standard, adhering to certain traditional methods

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19
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Colloquial

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Characteristic of ordinary and informal conversation

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20
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Comic

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Humorous, funny, light

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21
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Characterized by personal admissions of faults

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Confessional

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22
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Expressing contempt or disdain

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Contemptuous

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23
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persuasive, plausible

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Convincing

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24
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Very complicated or involved, qualifiers, phrases, clauses

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Convoluted

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25
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Having to do with twilight or shadowy areas

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Crepuscular

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26
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Tendency to believe all human behavior is due to self interest

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Cynical

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27
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Marked by decay in morals, values

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Decadent

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Sad, gloomy, without any redeeming qualities

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Depressing

29
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Disinterested, Unbiased, Emotionally disconnected

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Detached

30
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Moving pointlessly from one subject to another

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Discursive

31
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Having the characteristics of a dream

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Dreamlike

32
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Realistic, coarse, rustic, unrefined, instinctive, animalize

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Earthy

33
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Soft, delicate, unmanly

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Effeminate

34
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Expressing sorrow or lamentation

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Elegiac

35
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Much given to strong feelings

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Emotional

36
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Involving letters

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Epistolary

37
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Learned, scholarly

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Erudite

38
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Involving formal praise in speech or writing(usually in honor of someone dead)

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Eulogistic

39
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Having the ability to call forth memories or other responses

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Evocative

40
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Stressing the subjective and symbolic in art and literature

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Expressionistic

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Amusing, but light, unserious, frivolous

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Facetious

42
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Humorous in a light way, comedy with high exaggeration

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Farcical

43
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Everything that happens is destined and out of the hands of the individual

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Fatalistic

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Conspicously bold or colorful

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Flamboyant

45
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Flowing smoothly

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Fluid

46
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Inclined to attack cherished beliefs and traditions

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Iconoclastic

47
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Inclined to use subjective impressions rather than objective reality

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Impressionistic

48
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Unexpected turn of events, opposite of intent

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Ironic

49
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Showing disrespect for things that are usually respected or revered

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Irreverent

50
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Kind of language used in journalism

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Journalistic

51
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Intense, spontaneous, musical

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Lyrical

52
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Characteristics of melodrama where emotion and plot are exaggerated and characterization is shallow

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Metaphorical

53
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Feeling or expressing grief

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Mournful

54
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Ordinary or common in everyday matters

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Mundane

55
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Representing things in art or liturarure as they appear in nature or actuality

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Naturalistic

56
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Inclined to dwell on or long for things from the past

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Nostalgic

57
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Not subjective, Uninfluenced by personal feelings, seeing things from the outside

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Objective

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Indicating or threatening evil or danger indicate that a storm is coming like dark clouds

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Ominous

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Satiracle imitation of something serious

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Parody

60
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Able to get a person to do something or to agree with one by appeal of logic

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Persuasive

61
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Interested in the study of basic truths of existence of reality

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Philosophical

62
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Having or displaying a reverence for God and religion

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Pious

63
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Displaying ones importance in an exaturated way

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Pompous

64
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Simple and crude

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Primitive

65
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Lewd and lustful thoughts

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Prurient

66
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Human mind and human behavior

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Psychological

67
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Strict or severe in matters of morality

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Puritanical

68
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Inclined to represent things as they really are

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Realistic

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