Irony is when you expect one thing to happen, yet something completely unexpected happens like in a shakespeare play, if you expect the characters to live happily ever after, then all of a sudden, one of the characters gets shot...... etc. And to rewrite what x'terr wrote: (X`terrania)>bragging about how the enemy can't hit you, and then they hit you a minute later Plethora Plethora means to be in excess, as in if you have a lot of something There was a plethora of canned corn at the store BTW, what level of vocabulary are you going for? Highschool? middle school? elementary?