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Edward Scissorhands
Vocabulary
| 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 |