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bantering: gently teasing, mocking
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benevolent: charitable, well-wishing, good natured
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burlesque: mockingly and ludicrously imitative
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clinical: objective, analytical
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condescending: treating another in a patronizing manner
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contentious: controversial, disputable
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Cynical: believing all people are motivated by selfishness
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Detached: disconnected, free from emotional involvement
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Didactic: intended to teach; morally instructive
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diffident: hesitant to assert oneself from a lack of self confidence (timid)
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disdainful: mildly contemptuous, aloof
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Dramatic: Like a drama in emotional consent, striking as in appearance or effect
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elegiac: sorrowful; mournful; lamenting the dead
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erudite: having or demonstrating profound knowledge or scholarship
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facetious: flippant
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fanciful: imaginary, tending to indulge in fance
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flippant: casually disrespectful
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incisive: cutting, penetrating, direct and effective
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indignant: expressing anger at something unjust, mean, or unworthy
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inflammatory: tending to arouse strong emotions or passion or anger
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insolent: disrespectful; arrogant, rude
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ironic: when words convey the opposite of their literal meaning, incongruity between what might be expected and what actually happens
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lugubrious: mournful or sad, especially to a ridiculous degree
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Mock- heroic: A satirical imitation or burlesque of the heroic manner or style
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Objective: Uninfluenced by emotion, surmise or personal opinion
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pedantic: stressing trivial details of learning, parading one's learning
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petty: Contemptibly narrow minded; spiteful; mean
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Restrained: checked; held back; limited; deprived of freedom
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Satiric: ridiculing or attacking scornfully human voice or folly
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somber: gloomy, dark
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Whimsical: Capricious, playful or fanciful