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Dialogue
A written composition in which two or more persons are represented as conversing or reasoning on some topic; as, the Dialogues of Plato.
Caricaturist
One who caricatures.
Extravaganza
A composition, as in music, or in the drama, designed to produce effect by its wild irregularity; esp., a musical caricature.
Work
To form with a needle and thread or yarn; especially, to embroider; as, to work muslin.
Squib
A little pipe, or hollow cylinder of paper, filled with powder or combustible matter, to be thrown into the air while burning, so as to burst there with a crack.
Dancer
One who dances or who practices dancing.
Overdo
To do too much; to exceed what is proper or true in doing; to exaggerate; to carry too far.
Jester
A buffoon; a merry-andrew; a court fool.
Banana
A perennial herbaceous plant of almost treelike size (Musa sapientum); also, its edible fruit. See Musa.
Thalia
That one of the nine Muses who presided over comedy.
Ape
A quadrumanous mammal, esp. of the family Simiadae, having teeth of the same number and form as in man, and possessing neither a tail nor cheek pouches. The name is applied esp. to species of th..
Overdraw
To exaggerate; to overdo.
Musical
Of or pertaining to music; having the qualities of music; or the power of producing music; devoted to music; melodious; harmonious; as, musical proportion; a musical voice; musical instrument..
Stretching
of Stretch
Magnification
The act of magnifying; enlargement; exaggeration.
Satire
A composition, generally poetical, holding up vice or folly to reprobation; a keen or severe exposure of what in public or private morals deserves rebuke; an invective poem; as, the Satires of J..
Pastoral
Of or pertaining to shepherds; hence, relating to rural life and scenes; as, a pastoral life.
Scribble
To card coarsely; to run through the scribbling machine.
Overreach
To reach above or beyond in any direction.
Caricature
An exaggeration, or distortion by exaggeration, of parts or characteristics, as in a picture.
Lampoon
A personal satire in writing; usually, malicious and abusive censure written only to reproach and distress.
Ridicule
Remarks concerning a subject or a person designed to excite laughter with a degree of contempt; wit of that species which provokes contemptuous laughter; disparagement by making a person an o..
Rodeo
A round-up. See Round-up.
Carnival
A festival celebrated with merriment and revelry in Roman Gatholic countries during the week before Lent, esp. at Rome and Naples, during a few days (three to ten) before Lent, ending with Sh..
Mountebank
To play the mountebank.
Vaudeville
A kind of song of a lively character, frequently embodying a satire on some person or event, sung to a familiar air in couplets with a refrain; a street song; a topical song.
Ridicule
An object of sport or laughter; a laughingstock; a laughing matter.
Mountebank
One who mounts a bench or stage in the market or other public place, boasts of his skill in curing diseases, and vends medicines which he pretends are infalliable remedies; a quack doctor.
Tout
To act as a tout. See 2d Tout.
Mummer
One who mumms, or makes diversion in disguise; a masker; a buffon.
Magician
One skilled in magic; one who practices the black art; an enchanter; a necromancer; a sorcerer or sorceress; a conjurer.
Prestidigitator
One skilled in legerdemain or sleight of hand; a juggler.
Stripper
One who, or that which, strips; specifically, a machine for stripping cards.
Musician
One skilled in the art or science of music; esp., a skilled singer, or performer on a musical instrument.
Satirical
Of or pertaining to satire; of the nature of satire; as, a satiric style.
Twain
Two; -- nearly obsolete in common discourse, but used in poetry and burlesque.
Botch
A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease.
Heightening
of Heighten
Grandiloquence
The use of lofty words or phrases; bombast; -- usually in a bad sense.
Misstate
To state wrongly; as, to misstate a question in debate.
Conjurer
One who conjures; one who calls, entreats, or charges in a solemn manner.
Pantomime
A universal mimic; an actor who assumes many parts; also, any actor.
Skit
To cast reflections on; to asperse.
Broad
A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders.
Performer
One who performs, accomplishes, or fulfills; as, a good promiser, but a bad performer; especially, one who shows skill and training in any art; as, a performer of the drama; a performer on the ..
Imitate
To follow as a pattern, model, or example; to copy or strive to copy, in acts, manners etc.
Miracle
A wonder or wonderful thing.
Zany
A merry-andrew; a buffoon.
Farcical
Pertaining to farce; appropriated to farce; ludicrous; unnatural; unreal.
Falsify
To make false; to represent falsely.
Wit
of Wit
Doggerel
Low in style, and irregular in measure; as, doggerel rhymes.
Exorbitance
Alt. of Exorbitancy
Hyperbole
A figure of speech in which the expression is an evident exaggeration of the meaning intended to be conveyed, or by which things are represented as much greater or less, better or worse, than th..
Overcharge
To charge or load too heavily; to burden; to oppress; to cloy.
Farce
To stuff with forcemeat; hence, to fill with mingled ingredients; to fill full; to stuff.
Misrepresent
To represent incorrectly (almost always, unfacorably); to give a false erroneous representation of, either maliciously, ignirantly, or carelessly.
Imitation
The act of imitating.
Facsimile
A copy of anything made, either so as to be deceptive or so as to give every part and detail of the original; an exact copy or likeness.
Travesty
Disguised by dress so as to be ridiculous; travestied; -- applied to a book or shorter composition.
Version
A change of form, direction, or the like; transformation; conversion; turning.
Libel
A brief writing of any kind, esp. a declaration, bill, certificate, request, supplication, etc.
Replica
A copy of a work of art, as of a picture or statue, made by the maker of the original.
Paraphrase
A restatement of a text, passage, or work, expressing the meaning of the original in another form, generally for the sake of its clearer and fuller exposition; a setting forth the signification ..
Mock
To imitate; to mimic; esp., to mimic in sport, contempt, or derision; to deride by mimicry.
Piece
A fact; an item; as, a piece of news; a piece of knowledge.
Pervert
To turnanother way; to divert.
Esprit
Spirit.
Misquote
To quote erroneously or incorrectly.
Extravagance
A wandering beyond proper limits; an excursion or sally from the usual way, course, or limit.
Slant
To be turned or inclined from a right line or level; to lie obliquely; to slope.
Copy
An abundance or plenty of anything.
Monologue
A speech uttered by a person alone; soliloquy; also, talk or discourse in company, in the strain of a soliloquy; as, an account in monologue.
Sensationalism
The doctrine held by Condillac, and by some ascribed to Locke, that our ideas originate solely in sensation, and consist of sensations transformed; sensualism; -- opposed to intuitionalism, a..
Singer
One who, or that which, singes.
Vehicle
That in or on which any person or thing is, or may be, carried, as a coach, carriage, wagon, cart, car, sleigh, bicycle, etc.; a means of conveyance; specifically, a means of conveyance upon lan..
Irony
Made or consisting of iron; partaking of iron; iron; as, irony chains; irony particles.
Joker
One who makes jokes or jests.
Aggrandize
To make great; to enlarge; to increase; as, to aggrandize our conceptions, authority, distress.
Amplify
To render larger, more extended, or more intense, and the like; -- used especially of telescopes, microscopes, etc.
Enhancement
The act of increasing, or state of being increased; augmentation; aggravation; as, the enhancement of value, price, enjoyments, crime.
Misteach
To teach wrongly; to instruct erroneously.
Understate
To state or represent less strongly than may be done truthfully.
Prodigality
Extravagance in expenditure, particularly of money; excessive liberality; profusion; waste; -- opposed to frugality, economy, and parsimony.
Comic
Relating to comedy, as distinct from tragedy.
Spectacle
Something exhibited to view; usually, something presented to view as extraordinary, or as unusual and worthy of special notice; a remarkable or noteworthy sight; a show; a pageant; a gazingst..
Tableau
A striking and vivid representation; a picture.
Garble
To sift or bolt, to separate the fine or valuable parts of from the coarse and useless parts, or from dros or dirt; as, to garble spices.
Dummy
Silent; mute; noiseless; as a dummy engine.
Happening
of Happen
Impersonator
One who impersonates; an actor; a mimic.
Comical
Relating to comedy.
Burlesquer
One who burlesques.
Amplification
The act of amplifying or enlarging in dimensions; enlargement; extension.
Comedian
An actor or player in comedy.
Representation
The act of representing, in any sense of the verb.
Taunt
Very high or tall; as, a ship with taunt masts.
Ballet
An artistic dance performed as a theatrical entertainment, or an interlude, by a number of persons, usually women. Sometimes, a scene accompanied by pantomime and dancing.
Wag
To move one way and the other with quick turns; to shake to and fro; to move vibratingly; to cause to vibrate, as a part of the body; as, to wag the head.
Witling
A person who has little wit or understanding; a pretender to wit or smartness.
Broad
Wide; extend in breadth, or from side to side; -- opposed to narrow; as, a broad street, a broad table; an inch broad.
Artist
One who practices some mechanic art or craft; an artisan.
Humorist
One who attributes diseases of the state of the humors.
Sarcasm
A keen, reproachful expression; a satirical remark uttered with some degree of scorn or contempt; a taunt; a gibe; a cutting jest.
Extreme
At the utmost point, edge, or border; outermost; utmost; farthest; most remote; at the widest limit.
Clown
A man of coarse nature and manners; an awkward fellow; an ill-bred person; a boor.
Distort
Distorted; misshapen.
Bomb
A great noise; a hollow sound.
Serial
Of or pertaining to a series; consisting of a series; appearing in successive parts or numbers; as, a serial work or publication.
Pleasantry
That which denotes or promotes pleasure or good humor; cheerfulness; gayety; merriment; especially, an agreeable playfulness in conversation; a jocose or humorous remark; badinage.
Hit
It.
Reproduction
The act or process of reproducing; the state of being reproduced
Parody
A writing in which the language or sentiment of an author is mimicked; especially, a kind of literary pleasantry, in which what is written on one subject is altered, and applied to another by wa..
Daub
To smear with soft, adhesive matter, as pitch, slime, mud, etc.; to plaster; to bedaub; to besmear.
Opera
A drama, either tragic or comic, of which music forms an essential part; a drama wholly or mostly sung, consisting of recitative, arials, choruses, duets, trios, etc., with orchestral accompa..
Failure
Cessation of supply, or total defect; a failing; deficiency; as, failure of rain; failure of crops.
Masque
A mask; a masquerade.
Morality
The relation of conformity or nonconformity to the moral standard or rule; quality of an intention, a character, an action, a principle, or a sentiment, when tried by the standard of right.
Mystery
A profound secret; something wholly unknown, or something kept cautiously concealed, and therefore exciting curiosity or wonder; something which has not been or can not be explained; hence, s..
Distortion
The act of distorting, or twisting out of natural or regular shape; a twisting or writhing motion; as, the distortions of the face or body.
Pageant
A theatrical exhibition; a spectacle.
Excess
The state of surpassing or going beyond limits; the being of a measure beyond sufficiency, necessity, or duty; that which exceeds what is usual or prover; immoderateness; superfluity; superabund..
Flop
To clap or strike, as a bird its wings, a fish its tail, etc.; to flap.
Drama
A composition, in prose or poetry, accommodated to action, and intended to exhibit a picture of human life, or to depict a series of grave or humorous actions of more than ordinary interest, ten..
Dilation
Delay.
Belie
To show to be false; to convict of, or charge with, falsehood.
Enlargement
The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion.
Superlative
Lifted up to the highest degree; most eminent; surpassing all other; supreme; as, superlative wisdom or prudence; a woman of superlative beauty; the superlative glory of the divine character...
Review
To view or see again; to look back on.
Mimic
Alt. of Mimical
Model
A miniature representation of a thing, with the several parts in due proportion; sometimes, a facsimile of the same size.
Madcap
Inclined to wild sports; delighting in rash, absurd, or dangerous amusements.
Expansion
The act of expanding or spreading out; the condition of being expanded; dilation; enlargement.
Humor
Moisture, especially, the moisture or fluid of animal bodies, as the chyle, lymph, etc.; as, the humors of the eye, etc.
Burlesque
Tending to excite laughter or contempt by extravagant images, or by a contrast between the subject and the manner of treating it, as when a trifling subject is treated with mock gravity; jocular..
Comedy
A dramatic composition, or representation of a bright and amusing character, based upon the foibles of individuals, the manners of society, or the ludicrous events or accidents of life; a play i..
Success
Act of succeeding; succession.
Show
To exhibit or present to view; to place in sight; to display; -- the thing exhibited being the object, and often with an indirect object denoting the person or thing seeing or beholding; as, ..
Stretch
To reach out; to extend; to put forth.
Work
Exertion of strength or faculties; physical or intellectual effort directed to an end; industrial activity; toil; employment; sometimes, specifically, physically labor.
Dialogue
A conversation between two or more persons; particularly, a formal conservation in theatrical performances or in scholastic exercises.
Warp
To throw; hence, to send forth, or throw out, as words; to utter.
Twist
To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.
Sham
That which deceives expectation; any trick, fraud, or device that deludes and disappoint; a make-believe; delusion; imposture, humbug.
Charade
A verbal or acted enigma based upon a word which has two or more significant syllables or parts, each of which, as well as the word itself, is to be guessed from the descriptions or representati..
Color
A property depending on the relations of light to the eye, by which individual and specific differences in the hues and tints of objects are apprehended in vision; as, gay colors; sad colors, et..
Sketch
An outline or general delineation of anything; a first rough or incomplete draught or plan of any design; especially, in the fine arts, such a representation of an object or scene as serves the ..
Disguise
To change the guise or appearance of; especially, to conceal by an unusual dress, or one intended to mislead or deceive.
Exaggerate
To heap up; to accumulate.
Mime
A kind of drama in which real persons and events were generally represented in a ridiculous manner.
salt
Sulphate of magnesia having cathartic qualities; -- originally prepared by boiling down the mineral waters at Epsom, England, -- whence the name; afterwards prepared from sea water; but now from..
Joke
Something said for the sake of exciting a laugh; something witty or sportive (commonly indicating more of hilarity or humor than jest); a jest; a witticism; as, to crack good-natured jokes.
Stock
The stem, or main body, of a tree or plant; the fixed, strong, firm part; the trunk.
Take
Taken.
Send
To cause to go in any manner; to dispatch; to commission or direct to go; as, to send a messenger.
Soap
A substance which dissolves in water, thus forming a lather, and is used as a cleansing agent. Soap is produced by combining fats or oils with alkalies or alkaline earths, usually by boiling, an..
Mockery
The act of mocking, deriding, and exposing to contempt, by mimicry, by insincere imitation, or by a false show of earnestness; a counterfeit appearance.
Derision
The act of deriding, or the state of being derided; mockery; scornful or contemptuous treatment which holds one up to ridicule.
Magnify
To make great, or greater; to increase the dimensions of; to amplify; to enlarge, either in fact or in appearance; as, the microscope magnifies the object by a thousand diameters.
Melodrama
Formerly, a kind of drama having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes. Now, a drama abounding in romantic sentiment and agonizing situations, with a musical accom..
Piece
A fragment or part of anything separated from the whole, in any manner, as by cutting, splitting, breaking, or tearing; a part; a portion; as, a piece of sugar; to break in pieces.
Puff
A sudden and single emission of breath from the mouth; hence, any sudden or short blast of wind; a slight gust; a whiff.
Inflation
The act or process of inflating, or the state of being inflated, as with air or gas; distention; expansion; enlargement.
Duplication
The act of duplicating, or the state of being duplicated; a doubling; a folding over; a fold.
Wrench
Trick; deceit; fraud; stratagem.
Play
To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot.
Variety
The quality or state of being various; intermixture or succession of different things; diversity; multifariousness.
Stage
A floor or story of a house.
Camp
The ground or spot on which tents, huts, etc., are erected for shelter, as for an army or for lumbermen, etc.
Circus
A level oblong space surrounded on three sides by seats of wood, earth, or stone, rising in tiers one above another, and divided lengthwise through the middle by a barrier around which the track..
Theater
Alt. of Theatre
Scratch
To rub and tear or mark the surface of with something sharp or ragged; to scrape, roughen, or wound slightly by drawing something pointed or rough across, as the claws, the nails, a pin, or t..
