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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| playful or clever use of words to create humor. | wordplay |
| Abnormal or different from the usual expectation. | peculiar |
| Accumulated knowledge or learning. | wisdom |
| A state of not knowing; lack of awareness or education. | ignorance |
| Beliefs or hopes concerning what is possible in the future. | expectations |
| A boring; gloomy place, or state of mind, in which nothing happens. | doldrums |
| A state of having low energy with drowsiness and lack of interest or feeling; sloth, indifference, idleness, inactivity. | lethargy |
| wasting time | killing time |
| choice of words in a speech or writing. | diction |
| Bizarre, weird, or eerie; having a dream-like quality; beyond real, very strange or unusual. | surreal. |