Final Vocabulary

• Caustic


  Capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action or marked by incisive sarcasm
• Sophomoric


  Pretentious or juvenile
• Sadistic


  Deriving pleasure from inflicting pain, suffering, or humiliation on others
• Veracity


  Conformity to facts; accuracy, or habitual truthfulness
• Pastoral


  (in the Christian Church) concerning or appropriate to the giving of spiritual guidance
• Whimsical


  Subject to erratic behavior or unpredictable change, resulting from or characterized by whim or caprice
• Pedantic


  Someone who annoys others by correcting small errors, caring too much about minor details, or emphasizing their expertise, especially in some narrow or boring subject matter
• Surreal


  Having the qualities of surrealism; bizarre
• Ambivalent


  Having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone
• Disingenuous


  Not candid or sincere, typically by pretending that one knows less about something than one really does
• Complacent


  Pleased, especially with oneself or one's merits, advantages, situation, etc., often without awareness of some potential danger or defect; self-satisfied
• Flippant


  Frivolously disrespectful, shallow, or lacking in seriousness
• Coy


  Making a pretense of shyness or modesty that is intended to be alluring; reluctant to give details, especially about something regarded as sensitive
• Dubious


  Hesitating or doubting, not to be relied upon; suspect
• Didactic


  Intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive
• Jocular


  Said or done as a joke
• Satiric


  Implies that the intent of the ridiculing is censure and reprobation
• Duplicitous


  Deliberate deceptiveness
• Priggish


  Self-righteously moralistic and superior
• Apathy


  Lack of interest, enthusiasm, or concern