AP Lang VST #12

Austere

• high-sounding; high-flown; inflated; pretentious

• severe in manner or appearance; uncompromising; strict

• bulky or fat

• strongly emotional, intense, passionate

Bombastic

• high-sounding; high-flown; inflated; pretentious

• ridiculing

• cheerful

• irritating

Corpulent

• mocking, ridiculing

• severe in manner or appearance; uncompromising; strict

• bulky or fat

• evident, obvious, apparent

Derisive

• cheerful

• optimistic

• pretentious, intended to attract notice

• mocking, ridiculing

Jocund

• cheerful

• mocking

• harsh

• strongly emotional

Manifest

• severe in manner or appearance; uncompromising; strict

• bulky or fat

• cheerfully optimistic

• evident, obvious, apparent

Ostentatious

• mocking, ridiculing

• pretentious, intended to attract notice

• strongly emotional, intense, passionate

• evident, obvious, apparent

Sanguine

• intended to attract notice

• mocking, ridiculing

• cheerfully optimistic

• strict

Strident

• harsh, irritating

• strongly emotional, intense, passionate

• cheerful, jolly

• high-sounding; high-flown; inflated; pretentious

Vehement

• irritating

• strongly emotional

• obvious

• high-sounding