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13 Cards in this Set
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Pedantic?
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Characterized by a narrow, ostentatious concern for learning and formal rules- interested with showing how much a person knows.
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Euphemistic?
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Of an inoffensive substitute for offensive terminology
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Pretentious?
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Claiming or demanding a position of distinction or merit, ostentatious.
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Sensuous?
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Of or pertaining to the senses, sensible. Addressing the senses; suggesting pictures or images of sense.
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Exact?
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Strictly and completely in accord with fact, not deviating from truth or reality.
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Learned?
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Posessing or demonstrating profound, often systematic knowledge, erudite. Disected toward scholars?
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Symbolic?
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Of, relating to, or expressed by means of symbols or a symbol.
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Simple?
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Having or manifest little sense or intelligence. Uneducated; ignorant.
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Figurative?
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Based on or making use of figures of speech; metaphorical; figurative language
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Bombastic?
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Grandiloquent, pompous speech or writing
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Abstruse?
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Difficult to understand, recondite. Remote from apprehension, an abstuse learning.
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Grotesque?
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Characterized by ludicrous or incongruous distortion, as of appearance or manner. Outlandish or bizarre, as in character or appearance.
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Concrete?
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Particular, of or relating to a specific thing or instance.
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