The Crossover Vocabulary

display (something) ostentatiously, especially in order to provoke envy or admiration or to show defiance.

• Acclaim

• Flaunt

• Phenomenal

• Opulent

help (someone), typically by doing a share of the work.

• Acclaim

• Assist

• Ironic

• Confrontational

hesitating or doubting

• Calamity

• Dubious

• Confrontational

• Ironic

an event causing great and often sudden damage or distress; a disaster.

• Dubious

• Phenomenal

• Opulent

• Calamity

tending to deal with situations in an aggressive way; hostile or argumentative.

• Opulent

• Ironic

• Confrontational

• Calamity

wealthy

• Phenomenal

• Opulent

• Assist

• Flaunt

happening in the opposite way to what is expected, and typically causing wry amusement because of this.

• Phenomenal

• Calamity

• Opulent

• Ironic

very remarkable; extraordinary.

• Flaunt

• Opulent

• Phenomenal

• Assist

enthusiastic and public praise

• Phenomenal

• Acclaim

• Assist

• Opulent

Extra credit: Pulchritudinous

• ugly

• beautiful

• strong

• puppies