Literally Speaking
Going in different directions
What is divergent?
The path split off into two different direction.
What is divergent?
tending to feel a strong feeling or response; arousing a strong desire or appetite; irritating, annoying
What is provocative?
She looked at her little brother scornfully.
What is disdain?
To look upon with scorn
What is disdain?
Try though he might, the lion could not sit down beside the gazelle without taking a bite.
What is incompatible?
Impulsive action, unplanned events
What is spontaneity?
She bought Janie a stuffed animal despite the fact that Janie already had fifty stuffed animals.
What is superfluous?
Roundabout; not direct
What is circuitous?
School should be year-round.
What is provocative?
exceeding what is sufficient or required; excess
What is superfluous?
The spy froze in the shadows in order to avoid detection.
Irritation; frustration
What is exasperation?
Jane jumped into the car and headed for Florida with no notice or plan.
What is spontaneity?
stealthy, secret, intended to escape observation; made or accomplished by fraud
What is surreptitious?
"Now your just talking in circles. Get to the point!"
What is circuitous?
opposed in nature, not able to live or work together
What is incompatible?
When the stock market crashed in 1929 many people lost their jobs.
What is adversity?
hardship, misfortune
adversity
She sighed in frustration as she tried once more to get the math problem right.
What is exasperation?