Diction Words

Question 1

BITING

Answer 1

Nipping; smarting; keen

Question 2

BOMBASTIC

Answer 2

Hi sounding; highflown; inflated

Question 3

BRUSQUE

Answer 3

Abrupt in manner; blunt; rough.

Question 4

AMBIGUOUS

Answer 4

unclear or inexact because a choice between alternatives has not been made.

Question 5

CACOPHONOUS

Answer 5

Having a harsh or discordant sound.

Question 6

CAUSTIC

Answer 6

Severely critical or sarcastic.

Question 7

COLLOQUIAL

Answer 7

Characteristic of or appropriate to ordinary or familiar conversation rather than formal speech or writing; informal

Question 8

CONCRETE

Answer 8

Pertaining to or concerned with realities or actual instances rather than abstractions; particular (opposed to general)

Question 9

CULTURED

Answer 9

Enlightened; refined

Question 10

CURT

Answer 10

Rudely brief in speech or abrupt in manner.

-brief; short

Question 11

DIVISIVE

Answer 11

Creating dissension or discord

Question 12

ESOTERIC

Answer 12

Understood by or meant for only the select few who have special knowledge or interest;

• belonging to select few
• private

Question 13

EUPHEMISTIC

Answer 13

The substitution of a mild, indirect, or make expression for one thought to be offensive, harsh, or blunt.

Question 14

EUPHONIOUS

Answer 14

Pleasant and sound; agreeable to that year; characterized by euphony

Question 15

GRANDIOSE

Answer 15

Affectedly grand or important

Question 16

IDIOMATIC

Answer 16

Peculiar to or characteristic of a particular language or dialect.
-having a distinct style or character, especially in the arts.

Question 17

INFLAMMATORY

Answer 17

Tending to arouse anger, hostility, passion

Question 18

INFLATED

Answer 18

Puffed up, as with pride

-turgid or bombastic

Question 19

JARGON

Answer 19

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

Question 20

LEARNED

Answer 20

Having much knowledge; scholarly;

-well informed

Question 21

LOADED

Answer 21

(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

Question 22

LYRICAL

Answer 22

(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

Question 23

MONOSYLLABIC

Answer 23

Very brief; terse; Or blunt

Question 24

NOSTALGIC

Answer 24

A sentimental or wistful yearning for the happiness felt in a former place, time, or situation

Question 25

OBSCENE

Answer 25

Offensive to morality or decency; indecent; depraved

Question 26

OBSCURE

Answer 26

(Of meaning) not clear or plane; ambiguous, vague, uncertain

Question 27

ORNATE

Answer 27

Embellished with the rhetoric; Florida or highflown