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  • Mortified

    feeling or showing strong shame and being embarrassed.

  • Foreshadow

    to represent, indicate something thatll happen in the future

  • Spontaneity

    Voluntary or undetermined action or movement

  • Irony

    the use of words to express something other than and especially the 

    opposite of the literal meaning

  • Conceit

    too much pride in ur own worth or goodness

  • Bleak

    not warm, friendly, cheerful

  • Practical

    relating to what is real rather than to what is possible or imagined

  • Contrast

    to be different especially in a way that is very obvious

  • Retain

    to keep in possession or use

  • Resourceful

    able to deal well new or difficult situations and to find solutions 

    to problems

  • Conniving

    to help someone do something dishonest or illegal

  • Deprived

    marked by deprivation especially of the necessities of a good a healthful life

  • Relish

    to enjoy or take pleasure in something

  • Hypocrisy

    a feigning to be what one is not or to believe what one does not

  • Veiled

    having or wearing a veil or concealing cover

  • Affectionate

    feeling or showing affection

  • Affluent

    having a large amount of money and owning many expensive thing

  • Hindrance

    a person or thing that makes a situation difficult

  • Authoritative

    having or showing impressive knowledge about a subject

  • Converge

    to tend or move forward one point to another

  • Contradiction

    the act of saying something that is very opposite

  • Dismissal

    the state of being dismissed 

  • Lambaste

    to criticize someone very harshly

  • Contentment

    the quality of being concerned