facetious- playfully humorous
impinge- hinder; interfere with
lament- express grief for; mourn
melancholy- sadness; depression
truncated- shortened; cut off
Once my fifth grade facetiously told one of my classmates that their paper stunk and he sucked as a writer. The boy didn't know that she was just playing so he began lamenting over this. As much as we tried to assure him that she was just playing, he would not get out of his melancholy state. The simple statement from the teacher impinged on his happiness and comfortableness. The next time the teacher tried to joke around with another student, some of the classmates and I would try to truncate her joke by asking a question.
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