Week Twenty Three Flashcards

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philistine

(adj) - lacking in, hostile to, or smugly indifferent to cultural and artistic values or refinements

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Synonyms: boorish, lowbrow; yahoo

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refractory

(adj) - stubborn; hard or difficult to manage; not responsive to treatment or cure

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Synonyms: unruly, disobedient, mulish

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picaresque

() - involving or characteristic of clever rouges and adventurers

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Synonyms: roguish, rascally, rakish

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malleable

(adj) - able to be malleted; able to be shaped

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Synonyms: pliable, adaptable, impressionable

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lampoon

(noun) - a malicious satire
(adj) - to satirize or ridicule

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Synonyms: burlesque; parody

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