CUMULATIVE VOCAB WORDS

Question 1

Apprehensive

Answer 1

uneasy or fearful about something that might happen

Question 2

Ardent

Answer 2

characterized by intense feeling; passionate; fervent; intensely devoted, eager, or enthusiastic; zealous; vehement; fierce

Question 3

Arrogant

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making claims or pretentions to superior importance or rights; overbearingly assuming; insolently proud

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Audacious

Answer 4

extremely bold or daring; recklessly brave; fearless

Question 5

Baffled

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to confuse, bewilder, or perplex

Question 6

Bantering

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good-humored, playful conversation

Question 7

Belligerent

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warlike; given to waging war

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Bemused

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bewildered or confused/lost in thought; preoccupied

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Benevolent

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characterized by or expressing goodwill or kindly feelings

Question 10

Bewildered

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completely puzzled or confused; perplexed

Question 11

Apostrophy

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when a person/speaker addresses someone who is not present or an inanimate object

Question 12

allusion

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to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly’ an indirect or passing reference

Question 13

pedantic

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Overly academic or scholarly; providing knowledge in a way that shows off or is tiresome, i.e. using big words and lots of jargon

Question 14

Querulous

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complaining, whining, petulant

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Petulant

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childishly sulky or bad-tempered

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anectodal

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based on personal accounts rather than facts or research

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Polemical

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strongly attacking or defending a particular opinion, person, idea, or set of beliefs

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Pragmatic

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practical, especially when making decisions; sensible, grounded

Question 19

Didactic

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something in intended to teach or instruct, especially moral or ethical principles

Question 20

Acerbic

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sharply or bitingly critical, sarcastic, or ironic in tone, mood, or temper.

Question 21

Enigmatic

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something is mysterious, difficult to understand, or hard to solve

Question 22

Abashed

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ashamed or embarrassed; disconcerted

Question 23

Abhorring

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to regard with extreme repugnance or aversion; detest utterly; loathe;abominate

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Abstruse

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Difficult to understand

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Acerbic

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harsh or severe, as of temper or expression- wit

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Admonishing

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cautioning, advising, or counseling against something; reproving or scolding, especially in a mild and good-willed manner; reminding

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Ambiguous

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open to or having several possible meanings or interpretations

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Ambivalent

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uncertainty or fluctuation, especially when caused by inability to make a choice or by a simultaneous desire to say to do two opposite or conflicting things

Question 29

antagonistic

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acting in opposition; opposing, especially mutually/hostile; unfriendly

Question 30

Apathetic

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having or showing little or no emotion/not interesting or concerned; indifferent or unresponsive

Question 31

ad hominem

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“to the man”
when you attack the person rather than the argument

Question 32

Blithe

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joyous, merry, or gay in disposition; glad; cheerful

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Brusque

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Abrupt in manner; blunt; rough

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burlesque

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an artistic composition (literary or dramatic), vulgarizes for laughter, treats material with mock dignity

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Candid

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frank; outspoken; open and sincere/free from reservation– real

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Capricious

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flighty; led by whims, erratic

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caustic

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making biting, corrosive comments

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biting

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nipping, hurtful, keen/cutting; sarcastic

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censorious

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severely critical; faultfinding

Question 38

ceremonial

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formal, ritual, related to ceremony

Question 39

anaphora

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repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or sentences

Question 40

choleric

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extremely irritable or easily angered

Question 41

clinical

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scientific, based on actual observation’ analytic, unemotionally critical; objective and realistic

Question 42

colloquial

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characteristic of or appropriate to ordinary or familiar conversation rather than formal speech or writing; INFORMAL

Question 43

Conciliatory

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to overcome the distrust animosity of; appease, to make amends

Question 44

condemnatory

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to express strong disapproval

Question 45

condescending

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to speak down to/ spoken down to, showing or implying a usually patronizing descent from dignity or superiority

Question 46

contemptuous

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showing or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful

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contentious

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tending to argument or strife; quarrelsome/causing, involving, or characterized by argument or controversy

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curt

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rudely brief in speech or abrupt in manner/brief; concise; terse; laconic

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Antithesis

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the use of contrasting parallel structures representing absolute opposites

Question 50

Cynical

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scornful of the motives or virtues of others; bitterly or sneeringly distrustful, contemptuous, or pessimistic

Question 51

Derisive

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characterized by or expressing derision; contemptuous; mocking

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Derogatory

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tending to lessen the merit or reputation of a person or thing; disparaging; depreciatory

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Detached

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impartial or objective; disinterested; unbiased/ not involved or concerned; aloof

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Diabolic

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having the qualities of a devil; devilish; fiendish; outrageously wicked

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Diffident

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lacking confidence in one’s own ability, worth, or fitness; timid; shy

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Disdainful

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expressing extreme content

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Dogmatic

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asserting opinions in a doctrinaire or arrogant matter; opinionated

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Domineering

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overbearing; tyrannical

Question 59

Chiasmas

Answer 59

words or phrases repeated in reverse order– either in the exact same order or modified form (Ex: “And those tend inward to me, and I tend outward to them”)