2. An adjective that describes words, phrases, or
general tone that is overly scholarly, academic, or
bookish.
“A recent writer says the resulting generalizations
have not been only dubious but trivial” –Philip
McMahon
3. The substitution of a harsh word in effort of
making it sound less offensive, harsh, or
blunt.
“The beast with two backs” – Shakespeare
4. Full of pretense or pretension.
I like it when my rabbit fur sweater
gives me eczema
and places delicate fur in my cornea
- Ami Vaughn
5. Anything that affects the senses.
“She luxuriated in exquisite feel of the silk”
6. Strictly accurate or correct
“314 soldiers died in Iraq, 514 died in Chicago”
– Kanye West
7. Characterized by refined taste and manners
and good education.
“…Mr. Smith was sitting reading the paper
while drinking his morning tea”
8. Clear or distinct to the eye or ear. Not hidden
“The house was made of bricks, red ones to
be exact”
9. The actual meaning of a word. Aside from all
of the metaphorical and figurative meaning.
“She was on fire, the house was burning
down”
10. Anything relative to ordinary or familiar conversation rather
than the formal speech of writing.
"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll
probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy
childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all
before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of
crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the
truth."
11. Made by human skills; produced by humans.
“Our love was like no other, produced by
merely our hearts”
12. When a writer adopts an impartial view of
things.
“The vast distance creates an immediate sense
of time passing, and ceasing to exist, in one
spatial moment.” - Bergens Avisen
13. Possessing qualities or the particular charm
similar to Poetry.
“Love is like the sun coming out of the clouds
and warming your soul”. -Unknown
14. A person who teaches and indulges
themselves within morality.
“you neglect the progress of a baby step”
15. Informal use in vocabulary and idiom that is
usually more metaphorical, playful, and vivid
than ordinary language.
“ Gold grill shining” – A$AP Rocky
16. Characteristic of a particular language or
dialect.
"I'll have to start earlier the next time. This
time I only finished by the skin of my teeth."
17. Understood by or meant only for a select few
who have special knowledge or interest.
“a body of esoteric legal doctrine — B. N.
Cardozo”
18. Serving as a symbol, meaning it is used for
representation of something else.
The Wizard of Oz (L. Frank Baum) TheWicked
Witch of the West symbolizes evil.
Moby Dick (Melville) the white whale
symbolizes an elusive, unattainable goal.
19. Easy to understand, maneuver, deal with. Etc
“Horton hears a who ?” –Dr. Seuss
20. A deviation from what speakers of a language
understand as the ordinary or standard use of words
in order to achieve some special meaning or effect.
“Death lays his icy hand on kings” -James Shirley
21. High sounding ; High-flown
“Cry 'Havoc', and let slip the dogs of war, that
this foul deed shall smell above the earth with
carrion men, groaning for burial”
22. Hard to understand
“Utilizing molecular dynamics
simulations, the hydrogen molecules
adsorption isotherms of the (8, 0) palladium
decorated single-walled carbon nanotube
(SWNT) were obtained.” –Abstract of
Molecular Dynamics
23. Odd or unnatural in shape, appearance, or
character; fantastically ugly or absurd; bizarre.
“Alone in the hissing laboratory of his wishes, Mr
Pugh minces among bad vats and
jeroboams, tiptoes through spinneys of murdering
herbs, agony dancing in his crucibles..” – Corgi
Paperback Edition
24. Indecent ; obscene; lewd
“They f*ck you up, your mom and dad” –
Philip Larkin
