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What is incongruity between what might happen and what really occurs.
Irony
What is a tactic for delaying legislation by making long speeches?
Filibuster
What is to authenticate by someone empowered to witness signatures.
Notarize
What is extremely steep?
Precipitous
What is to seize and take control without authority?
Usurp
What is a standard or typical example?
Paradigm
Epiphany
What is without revealing one's identity?
Incognito
What is a speech you make to yourself?
Soliloquy
What is a powerful circular current of water?
Vortex
What is having a bad disposition?
Churlish
What is a temporary stay: visit?
Sojourn
Respiration
What is a system of words used to name things in a discipline?
Nomenclature
What is to increase gradually?
Wax
What is favorable circumstances and good luck?
Auspicious
What is marked by extreme intensity or emotions?
Vehement
What is ancient?
Atavistic
What is to prod or urge?
Goad
What is undisciplined, unrestrained, reckless?
Wanton
What is generally incompetent?
Feckless
What is shedding foliage at the end of the growing season?
Deciduous
What is to flatter, coax, persuade?
Cajole
What is one who takes part in a conversation?
Interlocutor
What is to aggravate, intensify the bad qualities?
Exacerbate