Diction Words Flashcards
BITING
Nipping; smarting; keen
BOMBASTIC
Hi sounding; highflown; inflated
BRUSQUE
Abrupt in manner; blunt; rough.
AMBIGUOUS
unclear or inexact because a choice between alternatives has not been made.
CACOPHONOUS
Having a harsh or discordant sound.
CAUSTIC
Severely critical or sarcastic.
COLLOQUIAL
Characteristic of or appropriate to ordinary or familiar conversation rather than formal speech or writing; informal
CONCRETE
Pertaining to or concerned with realities or actual instances rather than abstractions; particular (opposed to general)
CULTURED
Enlightened; refined
CURT
Rudely brief in speech or abrupt in manner.
-brief; short
DIVISIVE
Creating dissension or discord
ESOTERIC
Understood by or meant for only the select few who have special knowledge or interest;
- belonging to select few
- private
EUPHEMISTIC
The substitution of a mild, indirect, or make expression for one thought to be offensive, harsh, or blunt.
EUPHONIOUS
Pleasant and sound; agreeable to that year; characterized by euphony
GRANDIOSE
Affectedly grand or important
IDIOMATIC
Peculiar to or characteristic of a particular language or dialect.
-having a distinct style or character, especially in the arts.
INFLAMMATORY
Tending to arouse anger, hostility, passion
INFLATED
Puffed up, as with pride
-turgid or bombastic
JARGON
Unintelligible or meaningless talk or writing; gibberish
-language that is characterized by uncommon for pretentious vocabulary and convoluted syntax and is often vague in meaning
LEARNED
Having much knowledge; scholarly;
-well informed
LOADED
(Of a word, statement, or argument) charged with emotional or associative significance that hinders Fessional well I’m prejudiced consideration of the terms involved in a discourse
LYRICAL
(Of poetry) having the form and musical quality of a song, and especially the character of a song like outpouring of the poets own thoughts and feelings, as distinguished from epic and dramatic poetry
MONOSYLLABIC
Very brief; terse; Or blunt
NOSTALGIC
A sentimental or wistful yearning for the happiness felt in a former place, time, or situation
OBSCENE
Offensive to morality or decency; indecent; depraved
OBSCURE
(Of meaning) not clear or plane; ambiguous, vague, uncertain
ORNATE
Embellished with the rhetoric; Florida or highflown
