Vocabulary Week 1

Paradoxical

• dull, tedious, and repetitious; lacking in variety and interest.

• Seemingly absurd or self-contradictory.

• a short amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person.

• playfully quaint or fanciful, especially in an appealing and amusing way.

• Relating to matters of fact or practical affairs often to the exclusion of intellectual or artistic matters : practical as opposed to idealistic.

Anecdotes

• a short amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person.

• dull, tedious, and repetitious; lacking in variety and interest.

• Relating to matters of fact or practical affairs often to the exclusion of intellectual or artistic matters : practical as opposed to idealistic.

• Seemingly absurd or self-contradictory.

• playfully quaint or fanciful, especially in an appealing and amusing way.

Monotonous

• Relating to matters of fact or practical affairs often to the exclusion of intellectual or artistic matters : practical as opposed to idealistic.

• a short amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person.

• dull, tedious, and repetitious; lacking in variety and interest.

• Seemingly absurd or self-contradictory.

• playfully quaint or fanciful, especially in an appealing and amusing way.

Whimsical

• Relating to matters of fact or practical affairs often to the exclusion of intellectual or artistic matters : practical as opposed to idealistic.

• a short amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person.

• dull, tedious, and repetitious; lacking in variety and interest.

• Seemingly absurd or self-contradictory.

• playfully quaint or fanciful, especially in an appealing and amusing way.

Pragmatic

• Relating to matters of fact or practical affairs often to the exclusion of intellectual or artistic matters : practical as opposed to idealistic.

• a short amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person.

• dull, tedious, and repetitious; lacking in variety and interest.

• Seemingly absurd or self-contradictory.

• playfully quaint or fanciful, especially in an appealing and amusing way.

Ambiguity

• The quality of being open to more than one interpretation; Inexactness.

• Ironic understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary (You won't be sorry=you'll be glad)

• Lacking imagination, foresight, or intellectual insight.

• Prepared to obey others unquestioningly.

• A council (usually of Christian denomination) convened to decide an issue of doctrine, administration, or application.

Litotes

• Ironic understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary (You won't be sorry=you'll be glad)

• Lacking imagination, foresight, or intellectual insight.

• Prepared to obey others unquestioningly.

• A council (usually of Christian denomination) convened to decide an issue of doctrine, administration, or application.

• The quality of being open to more than one interpretation.

Myopic

• A council (usually of Christian denomination) convened to decide an issue of doctrine, administration, or application.

• Prepared to obey others unquestioningly.

• Lacking imagination, foresight, or intellectual insight.

• Ironic understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary (You won't be sorry=you'll be glad)

• The quality of being open to more than one interpretation.

Subservient

• A council (usually of Christian denomination) convened to decide an issue of doctrine, administration, or application.

• Lacking imagination, foresight, or intellectual insight.

• Prepared to obey others unquestioningly.

• Ironic understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary (You won't be sorry=you'll be glad)

• The quality of being open to more than one interpretation.

Synod

• Prepared to obey others unquestioningly.

• Lacking imagination, foresight, or intellectual insight.

• A council (usually of Christian denomination) convened to decide an issue of doctrine, administration, or application.

• Ironic understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary (You won't be sorry=you'll be glad)

• The quality of being open to more than one interpretation.