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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Banter | (n.) playful teasing; joking; raillery |
| Caricature | (n.) drawing, imitaion, or description that ridiculously exaggerates peculiarities or defects |
| Droll | (adj.) odd and laughter-provoking |
| Facetious | (adj.) 1. In the habbit of joking 2. Said in jest without serious intent |
| Flippant | (adj.) treating serious matters lightly |
| Harlequin | (n.) buffoon; clown |
| Hilarious | (adj.) boisteroulsy merry, very funny |
| Hilarity | (n.) noisy gaiety; mirth; jollity; glee |
| Ironic/Ironical | (adj.) containing or expressing irony |
| Irony | (n.) 1. species of humor whose intended meaning is the oppostite of the words used. 2. state of affairs contrary to what would normally be expected. |
| Jocose | (adj.) given to jesting; playfully humorous; jocular |
| Levity | (n.) lack of proper seriousness; trifling gaiety; frivolity |
| Ludicrous | exciting laughter; ridiculous; farcical; absurd |
| Parody | (n.) humorous imitation |
| Sarcasm | (n.) sneering and often ironic language intended to hurt a person's feelings |
| Sarcastic | (adj.) given to or expressing sarcasm |
| Sardonic | (adj.) bitterly sarcastic; mocking; sneering |
| Satire | (n.) language or writing that exposes follies or abuses by holding them up to ridicule |
| Satiric/Satirical | (adj.) given to or expressing satire |
| Travesty | (n.) imitation that makes a serious thing seem ridiculous; mockery |
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