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Vocab 5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Pretentious | attempting to impress by affecting greater importance, talent, culture, etc., than is actually possessed |
| Disingenuous | lacking honesty or sincerity |
| Amenable | having or showing willingness to agree or to accept something that is wanted or asked for |
| Superfluous | exceeding what is necessary; unnecessary |
| Tenuous | having little substance or strength |
| Didactic | designed or intended to teach (rather than to entertain) |
| Analogy | a comparison between two things to show their similarities |
| Synecdoche | a figure of speech by which a part is put for the whole or the whole for a part |
| Litotes | understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of the contrary |
| Allusion | the act of making an indirect reference to something |