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