Words
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repartee
witty and light sparring with words
haphazard
random; by chance
incorrigible
incapable of being corrected
acquiescent
compliant; accepting passively
adept
highly proficient; expert
irreverent
lacking proper respect or seriousness
jaundiced
envious; hostile
levity
excessive frivolity; lightness
obtuse
dull-witted; insensitive
perennial
regularly repeated; enduring; everlasting
oxymoron
a figurative expression that yokes together contrasting or even contradictory qualities
antithesis
a rhetorical contrast, or opposition, between two parallel phrases or clauses
couplet
a single pair of rhymed lines
blank verse
unrhymed, iambic pentameter lines
conciliatory
tending to placate, appease, soothe