Literally Speaking
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100

Going in different directions

What is divergent?

100

The path split off into two different direction.

What is divergent?

100

tending to feel a strong feeling or response; arousing a strong desire or appetite; irritating, annoying

What is provocative?

100

She looked at her little brother scornfully.

What is disdain?

200

To look upon with scorn

What is disdain?

200

Try though he might, the lion could not sit down beside the gazelle without taking a bite.

What is incompatible?

200

Impulsive action, unplanned events

What is spontaneity?

200

She bought Janie a stuffed animal despite the fact that Janie already had fifty stuffed animals.

What is superfluous? 

300

Roundabout; not direct

What is circuitous?

300

School should be year-round.

What is provocative?

300

exceeding what is sufficient or required; excess

What is superfluous? 

300

The spy froze in the shadows in order to avoid detection.

What is surreptitious?
400

Irritation; frustration

What is exasperation?

400

Jane jumped into the car and headed for Florida with no notice or plan.

What is spontaneity?

400

stealthy, secret, intended to escape observation; made or accomplished by fraud

What is surreptitious? 

400

"Now your just talking in circles. Get to the point!"

What is circuitous?

500

opposed in nature, not able to live or work together

What is incompatible?

500

When the stock market crashed in 1929 many people lost their jobs. 

What is adversity?

500

hardship, misfortune

adversity

500

She sighed in frustration as she tried once more to get the math problem right.

What is exasperation?

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