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43 Cards in this Set
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pedantic
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ostentatious in one's learning/teaching.
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adj
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pedantic
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pedantic
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the new teacher was ineffective because of her blank delivery.
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pedantic
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professor jones's lectures were so blank that his students sometimes had a tough time understanding the big picture
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deprecate
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to disapprove of, belittle "
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verb
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deprecate
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deprecate
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the next day he received two more complaints, one from a man who came in diffident blank
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acerbic
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sharply or bitingly ironic
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adj
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acerbic
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acerbic
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not everyone appreciated his blank whit
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acerbic
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the somewhat blank criticism of the new governor is well deserved
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acerbic
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juno jim from the office
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mastodonic
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something unusually, surrealistically large
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adj
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mastodonic
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mastodonic
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the blank statue that stood in fromt of the church was struck by lighning
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verb
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mete
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mete
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to deal out; allot
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out
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what word typically follows mete
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mete
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blank out punishment
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mete
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blank out rations
blank out privileges blank out penalties |
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maladroit
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unskillful, awkward, bungling, tactless
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adj
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maladroit
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maladroit
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racel price, kevin napoleon dynamite
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amorphous
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lacking definite form; having no specific shape
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adj
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amorphous
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polyglot
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someone who speaks or writes several languages
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noun
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polyglot
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noun
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recidivist
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recidivist
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relapsed criminal
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sate
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to overfill to point of gluttony
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satiated is satifactory
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difference between sate and satiated
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assonance
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repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds in neighboring words
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assonance
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all the seeming of a deamon that's been dreaming
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caricature
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an exaggeration or distortion of an individuals prominent features/characteristics
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burlesque
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in lit, caricature is also called blank
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caricature
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owen meany luna lovegood cyrano de bergerac
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convention
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device of style or subject matter so often used taht it becomes a recognized means of expression
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convention
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a blank lover can't eat/sleep. an author who mockes the blank might create an overweight lover who sleeps
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connotation
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range of further associations that a word or phrase suggests in addition to its straightforward dictionary meaning
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epigram
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a terse witty pointed saying
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epigram
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she knows the cost of everything bu the value of nothing
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epigram
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axion maxim truism
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irony
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incongruity, difference between reality and appearance
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