Question | Answer |
1. variation | slight difference |
2. exemplified | illustrated or shown by |
3. conventional | set pattern; |
4. target audience | the group of people which is being aimed at |
5. conventions | customary way of doing something |
6. eerie | unnerving or unusually disturbing in a way that suggests the supernatural |
7. motif | an important and often reoccurring theme (subject) or image |
8. self-parody | a comic or satirical copy of one’s self; comical or outrageous self imitation |
9. somber | dark and gloomy, serious; melancholy; feeling sadness |
10. constituting | the make-up the whole or the part of something or to be the ingredient of |
11. kitsch | collectively decorative items that are regarded as tasteless (vulgar/common); ostentatious (display of success designed to impress people) |
12. derelict | abandoned or neglected |
13. stereotypical | standardized image of a person or group |
14. imperfection | defect |
15. illusion | something with a deceptive appearance; something that deceives the senses or the mind, |
16. juxtaposition | to place two or more things together |
17. precipitate | make something happen; cause; by the catalyst( stimulus to change) |
18. equilibrium | balance or stability |
19. naiveté | a naive quality or naive behavior |
20. sophisticated | (opposite of naiveté) experienced, worldly, |
21. aptly | appropriately, fittingly |
22. cope | deal with, manage, get by, survive, muddle through |
23. duped | to persuade or induce somebody to do something by trickery or deception; fooled, |
24. rendered | to put someone or something in a particular state; made |
25. momentum | forward movement; progressive development |
26. flee | run away |
27. revenge | act of retaliation; the desire or urge to get even with somebody |
28. obnoxious | very offensive and unpleasant; detestable; abhorrent; despicable |
29. ostensibly | presented as being true, or appearing to be true, but usually hiding a different motive or meaning; apparently; supposedly; superficially; presumably |