Vocabulary 11 grade 10
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| An exchange of good-humored, playful remarks | show | noun
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| Talk-show hosts often _____ with their guests | banter | show 🗑
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| show | banter |
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| show | caricature | noun from Italian caricare, "to exaggerate"
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| ____________ of the late Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnez usually included ridiculously bushy eyebrows. | Caricature(s) | show 🗑
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| show | caricature | verb
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| Luckily, Principal Weiss laughted when she saw herself being ___________ on stage in the student talent show. | show |
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| Becky is a great ___________; in just a few seconds, she can make a funny, recognizable sketch of any celebrity. | caricaturist | show 🗑
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| show | droll | adjective
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| My _____ uncle showed up at the family barbecue wearing overalls and an upside=down hat full of ears of corn. | show |
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| show | facetious | adjective from /latin facetus
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| I was being ________ when I said that, in the future, people who can spell will not be allowed to use the Internet. | facetious | show 🗑
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| Humorous in a disrespectful, casual way; rudely witty | flippant | show 🗑
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| great merriment; extreme amusement | hilarity | show 🗑
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| The comedian's jokes were so ___________ that we laughed until we were gasping for air | hilarious | show 🗑
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| ridiculously, laughably absurd | ludicrous | show 🗑
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| Imagine the ___________ of a sixty-year-old, overweight, bearded actor playing the lovely, young Juliet! | show | noun from ludicrous
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| good spirits; happiness and merriment, especially a expressed by laughter | show | noun from Old Englush myrgth, "merriment"
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| show | mirthful | adjective
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| playful or unpredictable | show | adjective
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| In an act of pure ______, the teacher did a back-flip before starting the lecture | whimsy | show 🗑
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| show | witticism | noun
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| show | witticism(s) |
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| We enjoyed the speaker's ____ remarks. | witty | show 🗑
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| My _________ aunt Harriet regularly traveled to exotic places on the spur of the moment. | show |
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| The wedding guests were full of _____ and excitement. | mirth | show 🗑
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| At a fundraiser, the soccer dads dressed up as honey bees and did a _______ dance, buzzing up and down the aisles and pretending to gather honey. | ludicrous | show 🗑
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| show | hilarity |
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| While frantically asking neighbots if they had seen her lost dog, Lynn didn'r appreciate the _________ question, "Is he the one with the tail?" | flippant | show 🗑
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| good spirits | show |
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| great merriment | hilarity | show 🗑
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| playful converstion | banter | show 🗑
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| amusingly odd | show |
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| disrespectfully humorous | show |
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| unpredictable | show |
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| show | caricature |
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| show | witticism |
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| utterly absurd | show |
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| not meant to be taken seriously | show |
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| Where did you get the _______ idea that I'd changed my name to "bumbelina" | ludicrous | show 🗑
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| Some people call my sense of humor odd, bu I prefer to call it ______. | droll | show 🗑
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| show | mirth | key - "full of"
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| show | facetious | key - "I hope--realized" not meant to be taken seriously
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| We were amused by the clever ______ between the show's characters. | show | key - exchange of good-humored, playful remarks.
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| Maria's role in the comedy was a ____ of a lovesick teenager. | show | key - caricatures oftern appear in cartoons, articles, books and performances
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| Because of Peter's _____ answers during the interview, he did not get the job. | flippant | show 🗑
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| One of Mark Twain's many great _____is, "The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read then." | witticisms | show 🗑
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| show | hilarity | key extreme amusement
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| Every chapter of the ____ book contained some delightful new twist. | show | key playful or unpredictable
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| show | banter ... flippant |
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| Elina was not amused when Jorge told her ____ that his car had a flat tire so he couldn't take her to the dance. | facetiously | show 🗑
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| The children were ___ when the clown hit himself with a pie. | show | from Mirth
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| show | flippant | from flippant
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| Tammi got a job as a ____ because she is a talented artist with a good sense of humor. | show | from caricature
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| The Movie's dialogue was so _____ that everyone we knew repeated the lines over and over. | hilarious | show 🗑
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| Some people carefully plan their lives,but others prefer to act on______. | Whimsy | show 🗑
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| show | ludicrousness | from ludicrous
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| "you to stop ___ in class," the teacher scolded. | show | from banter
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| Shakespere's comedies contain many ______ comments about life and love. | show | from witticism
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| show | droll |
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| show | to interest the audience |
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| A way to express mirth | show |
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| A ludicrous item to wear to the beach on a summer day | show |
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| A word that would NOT describe a facetious comment | serious | show 🗑
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| Something that would NOT inspire hilarity | show |
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| show | rebellious teen |
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| The genre of literature most likely to include whimsical plot twists | show |
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| An audience raction most likely caused by a droll character | suprised laughter | show 🗑
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| the LEAST appropriate place for banter | library | show 🗑
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| show | thick glasses |
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| To converse in a playful or teasing way | show | verb
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