Vocabulary Flashcard

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What is 'clamoring'?

Back

To become loudly insistent.

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What is 'alienation'?

Back

A withdrawing or separation of a person.

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What does 'nostalgia' refer to?

Back

A wistful yearning for the past.

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What does 'intrusive' mean?

Back

Intruding where one is not welcome.

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What is the meaning of 'cynical'?

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Contemptuously distrustful of human nature.

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What is 'empathy'?

Back

The ability to understand and share the feelings of another.

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What does 'resilience' mean?

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The capacity to recover quickly from difficulties.

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What is 'ambivalence'?

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The state of having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something.

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What does 'metaphor' refer to?

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A figure of speech that implies a comparison between two unlike things.

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What is 'irony'?

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A contrast between expectation and reality.