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Claire Ottinger Week 10
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English
11th Grade
11/18/2011
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Jovial
 Definition
  • Claire was a wonderfully jovial host.
  • endowed with or characterized by a hearty, joyous humor or a spirit of good-fellowship
  • [joh-vee-uh[image]l]
  • adjective
Term
Morose
 Definition
  • He was unusually morose , even for a man who is usually morose
  • gloomily or sullenly ill-humored, as a person or mood.
  • [muh-rohs]
  • Adjective
Term
Ribald
 Definition
  • "I shall write a book some day about the appropiatness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring, as is proper and correct, and ALexander Pope was inevitably Alexander Pope."-James Joyce
  • vulgar or indecent in speech,  etc.; coarsely mocking, abusive, or irreverent; scurrilous.
  • [rib-uh[image]ld; spelling pron. rahy-buh[image]ld]
  • adjective
Term
Quizzical
 Definition
  • That riddle you just said was very quizzical
  • odd, queer, or comical.
  • [kwiz-i-kuh[image]l]
  • adjective
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Forthright
 Definition
  • It's sometimes difficult to be forthright and not give offense.
  • going straight to the point; frank; direct; outspoken
  • [adj., n. fawrth-rahyt, fohrth-; adv. fawrth-rahyt, fohrth-, fawrth-rahyt, fohrth-]
  • adjective
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