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English List 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Full of or expressing a feeling of contempt for someone or something regarded as unworthy or inferior: scorn | Disdainful |
| 1. A) Designed or intended to teach B) intended to convey instruction and information as well as pleasure and entertainment 2. making moral observations | Didactic |
| Expressing or causing the use of ridicule or scorn to show contempt | Derisive |
| 1. characterized by or proceeding from an intense and serious state of mind 2. Grave, Important | Earnest |
| Possesing or displaying extensive knowledge acquired chiefly from books | Erudite |
| 1. Marked by fancy or unrestrained imagination rather than by reason and experience 2. existing in fancy only 3. marked by or as if by fancy or whim | Fanciful |
| 1. archaic: proceeding straight on. 2. free from ambiguity or evassiveness: going straight to the point 3. notably simple in style or quality | Forthright |
| blatantly and disdainfully proud | Haughty |
| Filled with or marked by anger aroused by something unjust, unworthy, or mean | Indignant |