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| anticlimax, false or excessive pathos |
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| instrument for measuring water depth |
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| a chamber lowered to great depths in the ocean |
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| a slip of the tongue in which sounds are transposed, with bathetic effect |
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| a comic imitation or takeoff |
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| a comic imitation of a well-known literary/musical composition |
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| a crude/grotesque imitation of something impressive, or a situation or incident which appears to be a distorted imitation |
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| a picture/account which exaggerates certain features of a person/situation in order to poke fun |
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| mild sarcasm, a grimly hummorous effect of words, or a situation opposite to what one expects |
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| harsh, cutting derision in which irony is often used |
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| ridicule, especially in literary form |
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| a strong satiric piece of writing, generally brief and usually directed at a person |
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| light-mindedness, frivolity (implies lack of seriousness) |
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| to smooth or into a smooth paste |
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| pertness, lightly disrespectful talk or action, sauciness |
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| quick, easy, conceited, frivolous, or disrespectful |
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| joyous but less comic than hilarity |
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| prolonged amusement/merriment |
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| good-natured, playful joyousness |
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| light-hearted or intended to cause laughter |
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| cheerful, good-natured, and spirited |
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| laughableness, ridiculousness (objects/situations) |
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| rapid, witty conversation or reply |
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| loose, arty, unconventional |
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| marked by stupor/muscular rigidity, often alternating with excitement |
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| a kind of seizure marked by muscular rigidity and temporary loss of consciousness |
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| a great flood/sudden upheaval |
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| encourages a desired reaction by its presence |
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| a machine or other device for hurling rocks |
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| inflammation of mucous membrane |
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| worldwide, universal, church-uniting |
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| devoted to one specific sect or denomination |
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| based on experience/experiment |
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| characterized by suspiciousness and a feeling of being persecuted (implies abnormality or mental imbalance) |
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| producing an unnatural mental state |
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| psychedelic drugs because they produce a state which involves hallucinations |
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| morally neutral/indifferent; doing neither good nor harm, as a medicine |
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| bad smelling, noxious, offensive, or poisonous from any source |
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| lustrous, iridescent; yielding nacre or mother of pearl |
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| of small value, worthless; not operative |
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| of or having to do with the eyelids (Dafuck?) |
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| making/becoming worse; disparaging |
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| capable of being cut or split |
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