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Things humour often describes ("humour ________")
- confidence
- smiles
- violence
- enmity
- politeness
- characters
- sir
- pain
- sense
- outbreaks
- afternoon
- beauty
- harmony
- disposition
- evaporate
- health
- none
- courtesy
- merriment
- highlanders
- seasons
- headaches
- failure
- generosity
- day
- quarrelling
- joy
- face
- magistrates
- characteristic
- kindness
- temper
- disregard
- breaks
- regard
- help
- gaiety
- passes
- mirth
- wit
- tragedian
- night
- affability
- courage
- hint
- opinion
- complacency
- pieces
- nothing
- act
- fancies
- melancholy
- indifference
- vanishing
- thanks
- comedies
- abound
- resentment
- usage
- nature
- siestas
- vent
- springs
- spirit
- flow
- breeding
- eames
- natural
- left
- punishment
- conversation
- farewell
- imaginable
- woman
- resound
- novel
- behaviour
- tempers
- patient
- raillery
- choler
- spirits
- sunday
- bearing
- frankness
- jocosity
- dimples
- charity
- arises
- indolence
- conceit
- order
- comedy
- right
How humour often is described ("________ humour")
- subtle
- rare
- wry
- playful
- satirical
- unconscious
- ironic
- bad
- aqueous
- gentle
- exquisite
- infinite
- irrepressible
- much
- genial
- admirable
- racy
- sardonic
- merry
- imperturbable
- rough
- characteristic
- utmost
- vitreous
- cheerful
- whimsical
- unfailing
- genuine
- ill
- perfect
- excellent
- comic
- black
- grim
- easy
- grave
- quiet
- pleasant
- melancholy
- peculiar
- sly
- better
- usual
- boisterous
- bitter
- delicate
- dry
- grotesque
- sarcastic
- irish
- savage
- true
- odd
- ironical
- quaint
- shrewd
- robust
- native
- gallows
- delightful
- good
- rich
- caustic
- coarse
- lively
- verbal
- gay
- crystalline
- cynical
- kindly
- broad
