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Question 1

sublime

Answer 1

adj-exalted, noble, uplifting

Question 2

atheistical

Answer 2

adj-disbelieving or lacking belief in the existence of God.

Question 3

potentate

Answer 3

n-a monarch, very powerful ruler, soverign

Question 4

despoil

Answer 4

v-to take possessions by force, to plunder (steal)

Question 5

blunderbuss

Answer 5

n-a clumsy, careless person; firearm with a bell muzzle

Question 6

capitulate

Answer 6

v-to surrender

Question 7

vexed

Answer 7

adj-discomfort or distress

Question 8

tremulous

Answer 8

adj-trembling, quivering, shaking

Question 9

expeditious

Answer 9

adj-done with speed and efficiency

Question 10

antithesis

Answer 10

figure of speech in which opposing or contrasting ideas are balanced against each other in grammatically parallel syntax.

Question 11

caricature

Answer 11

writing that exaggerates-for comic effect-certain individual qualities of a person or that produces a ridiculous effect

Question 12

juxtaposition

Answer 12

juxtaposition is used to mock something light/trivial with something serious, the satirist mocks that which is considered serious.

Question 13

understatement

Answer 13

figure of speech in which the literal sense of what is said falls under the magnitude of what is being talked about.

eg) Describing a huge storm overnight, a comedic understatement would be: “Looks like it rained a bit last night

Question 14

personification

Answer 14

human attributes/emotions are assigned to animals, ideas, abstractions, and inanimate objects