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Ludicrous
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- amusing or laughable through obvious absurdity, incongruity, exaggeration, or eccentricity
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Oxymoron
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A combination of contradictory or incongruous words (as cruel kindness)
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Aesthetic
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Responsive to or appreciative of what is pleasurable to the senses
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Rhetoric
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- language that is intended to influence people and that may not be honest or reasonable
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Satire
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Wit, irony, or sarcasm used to expose and discredit vice or folly
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Posit
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To propose as an explanation
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Ascetic
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- practicing strict self-denial as a measure of personal and especially spiritual discipline
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Goad
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- something that urges or stimulates a person into action
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Contemptuossness
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manifesting, feeling, or expressing deep hatred or disapproval
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Apparition
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A ghostly figure
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Degeneracy
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- sexual perversion
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Sensualist
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Someone engaged in persistent or excessive pursuit of sensual pleasures and interests
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Bourgeois
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Of, relating to, or characteristic of the social middle class
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Brothel
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House of prostitution
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Religious hyperbole
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Religious exageration
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