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Abstruse - (adj) difficult to comprehend. Acephalous - (adj) headless or lacking a clearly defined head. having no leader. Aleatory - (adj) random. Apposite - (adj) highly pertinent or appropriate. Apollonian - (adj) harmonious, measured, ordered, balanced. Ascetic - (adj) self-denial. Assiduous - (adj) marked by careful and persistent attention. Banausic - (adj) relating to or concerned with earning a living. Benefic - (adj) doing or producing goods, beneficial. Bilious - (adj) of or relating to bile. of or indicative of a peevish ill-natured disposition. Blithesome - (adj) lighthearted, merry. Bucolic - (adj) relating to or typical of rural life. Canicular - (adj) of or relating to the dog days of summer. Capricious - (adj) unpredictable Categorical - (adj) absolute, unqualified. Cimmerian - (adj) very dark or gloomy. Circadian - (adj) being, having, characterized by, or occurring in approximately 24-hour periods or cycles. Clarion - (adj) brilliantly clear, loud and clear. Commodious - (adj) comfortably or conveniently spacious, roomy Compunctious - (adj) arising from remorse or regret, feeling remorse or regret. Congenial - (adj) agreeable. Contiguous - (adj) being in contact, touching. Contumacious - (adj) rebellious, stubbornly disobedient. Corpulent - (adj) obese, large and bulky Costive - (adj) suffering from constipation, causing constipation, slow, sluggish, stingy. Crapulent - (adj) sick from excessive drinking or eating. Crepuscular - (adj) of, relating to, or resembling twilight. dim. active in the twilight. Demulcent - (adj) soothing. Desultory - (adj) marked by lack of definite plan, regularity, or purpose. Diffident - (adj) shy, lacking confidence. Dilatory - (adj) tending or intended to cause delay, characterized by procrastination : tardy. Edentulous - (adj) Having no teeth; toothless. Effusive - (adj) excessively demonstrative. Egregious - (adj) conspicuously bad or offensive. Endemic - (adj) belonging or native to a particular people or country, characteristic of or prevalent in a particular field, area, or environment. Ephemeral - (adj) momentary, fleeting, transient. Epicurean - (adj) devoted to the pursuit of pleasure, fond of food, comfort and ease. Equivocal - (adj) uncertain, ambiguous. Ersatz - (adj) being an imitation or a substitute, usually an inferior one; artificial. Erudite - (adj) learned Esoteric - (adj) understood only by the specially initiated. Ethereal - (adj) celestial, heavenly: exceptionally delicate : airy, dainty. Euphonious - (adj) pleasant, harmonious sound. Exiguous - (adj) excessively scanty : inadequate. Fallacious - (adj) wrong, unsound, illogical. Fatuous - (adj) complacently or inanely foolish : silly. Fortuitous - (adj) happening by accident or chance. Happening by a fortunate accident or chance. Lucky or fortunate. Frabjous - (adj) wonderful, elegant, superb, or delicious. Fractious - (adj) tending to be troublesome, quarrelsome, irritable. Frangible - (adj) fragile. Fugacious - (adj) lasting a short time. Fuliginous - (adj) obscure, murky: having a dark or dusky color. Garrulous - (adj) very talkative. Georgic - (adj) of or relating to agriculture or rural life. Gossamer - (adj) extremely light, delicate or tenuous. Gregarious - (adj) social, companionable, tending to flock together. Heterodox - (adj) contrary to or different from an acknowledged standard, unorthodox, unconventional; holding unorthodox opinions or doctrines. Histrionic - (adj) deliberately affected, theatrical; or or relating to actors, acting or the theater. Homeric - (adj) of, relating to, or characteristic of Homer, his works, or the legends and age of which he wrote, heroic in proportion, degree, or character; epic. Homiletic - (adj) resembling a sermon, preachy. Homogeneous - (adj) of the same or a similar nature. Hypnagogic - (adj) of, relating to, or associated with the drowsiness preceding sleep. Imperturbable - (adj) marked by extreme calm, steadiness. Inalienable - (adj) incapable of being withdrawn, surrendered, or transferred. Incarnadine - (adj) having the pinkish color of flesh. Incorrigible - (adj) incapable of being corrected, amended or reformed. Delinquent, unruly. Indolent - (adj) habitually lazy, idle. Indomitable - (adj) incapable of being subdued, unconquerable. Indubitable - (adj) unquestionable. Inexorable - (adj) not to be persuaded, relentless. Infra-dig - (adj) undignified. Infrangile - (adj) not capable of being broken or separated into parts. Inimical - (adj) hostile, unfriendly. Inkhorn - (adj) ostentatiously learned. Innocuous - (adj) producing no injury, harmless, not likely to give offense or to arouse strong feelings or hostility, inoffensive, insipid. Irrefragable - (adj) impossible to refute, impossible to break or alter. Itinerant - (adj) Having a tendency to travel. Jackleg - (adj) lacking skill or training. Jocose - (adj) given to joking. Laconic - (adj) using or marked by the use of few words, terse or concise. Lenitive - (adj) alleviating pain, soothing. Lissome - (adj) easily flexed, lithe, nimble. Loquacious - (adj) excessively talkative. Lucullan - (adj) lavish, luxurious. Lugubrious - (adj) mournful; especially : exaggeratedly or affectedly mournful; dismal. Marmoreal - (adj) of, relating to, or suggestive of marble or a marble statue especially in coldness. Mawkish - (adj) having an insipid often unpleasant taste, sickly or puerilely sentimental Munificent - (adj) very liberal in giving or bestowing, lavish. Mutable - (adj) capable of or subject to alteration or change. Myrmidon - (adj) a loyal follower, a subordinate who executes orders unquestioningly. Neoteric - (adj) recent in origin, modern. Obsequious - (adj) full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning. Obtuse - (adj) stupid, blunt. Oneiric - (adj) of or relating to dreams, dreamy. Onerous - (adj) involving, imposing, or constituting a burden, troublesome. Opulence - (adj) lavish, extravagant, having to do with great wealth. Orwellian - (adj) Of, relating to, or evocative of the works of George Orwell. Ostensible - (adj) being such in appearance. Ostentatious - (adj) lavish display meant to impress others. Overweening - (adj) arrogant, presumptuous; immoderate, exaggerated. Parsimonious - (adj) careful with money or resources; especially frugal to the point of stinginess. Pedantic - (adj) narrowly, stodgily, and often ostentatiously learned, unimaginative. Pejorative - (adj) tending to make or become worse. Percipient - (adj) having the power of perceiving, especially perceiving keenly and readily. Peripatetic - (adj) of, relating to, or given to walking, moving or traveling from place to place : itinerant. Perspicacious - (adj) shrewd, astute, keen-witted. Petulant - (adj) unreasonably irritable or ill-tempered; peevish. contemptuous in speech or behavior. Pickwickian - (adj) marked by simplicity and generosity. Pilose - (adj) covered with fine, soft hair. Pithy - (adj) profound, substantial, concise, succint. Precocial - (adj) capable of a high degree of independent activity from birth. Prosaic - (adj) Dull, unimaginative; everyday, ordinary Protean - (adj) easily assuming different shapes or forms. Puerile - (adj) juvenile, childish, silly. Pusillanimous - (adj) lacking courage; cowardly. Querulous - (adj) given to complaining; peevish, expressing a complaint or grievance; grumbling. Quiescent - (adj) marked by inactivity or repose, tranquilly at rest: causing no trouble or symptoms. Quondam - (adj) former, sometime. Raffish - (adj) marked by or suggestive of flashy vulgarity or crudeness. Rantipole - (adj) characterized by a wild, unruly manner or attitude. Rebarbative - (adj) irritating, repellent. Recumbent - (adj) suggestive of repose : leaning, resting, lying down. Rhadamanthine - (adj) strictly and uncompromisingly just. Rococo - (adj) excessively ornate or intricate. Rube Goldberg - (adj) of, relating to, or being a contrivance that brings about by complicated means what apparently could have been accomplished simply. Salient - (adj) prominent. Salubrious - (adj) favorable to or promoting health or well-being. Sardonic - (adj) cynical, scornfuly mocking. Scrofulous - (adj) having a diseased or run-down look, morally contaminated. Sedulous - (adj) involving or accomplished with careful perseverance, diligent in application or pursuit. Senescent - (adj) growing old; aging. Sentient - (adj) capable of feeling, aware. Sesquipedalian - (adj) having many syllables. Soporific - (adj) causing or tending to cause sleep, tending to dull awareness or alertness. Specious - (adj) having deceptive attraction or allure, having a false look of truth or genuineness. Stentorian - (adj) extremely loud. Stoic - (adj) not affected by or showing passion or feeling. Subfusc - (adj) of a dark, dull, or somber color. Sui Generis - (adj) constituting a class alone : unique, peculiar. Supercilious - (adj) coolly and patronizingly haughty. Supernal - (adj) celestial; heavenly; of, coming from, or being in the sky or high above. Surreptitious - (adj) done, made or acquired by stealth. Susurrous - (adj) full of whispering sounds. Tatterdemalion - (adj) ragged or disreputable in appearance. Tenebrous - (adj) shut off from the light, hard to understand, obscure. Testudinate - (adj) slow-moving, like a turtle. Transpicuous - (adj) easily understood or seen through. Truculent - (adj) disposed to fight; pugnacious, expressing bitter opposition; scathing. Ubiquitous - (adj) widespread. Ultracrepidarian - (adj) going beyond one's proper province, presumtious, out of bounds. Unctuous - (adj) characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness. Untenable - (adj) indefensible. Urbane - (adj) notably polite or finished in manner. Uxorial - (adj) or, relating to, or characteristic of a wife. Vacuous - (adj) marked by lack of intelligence, stupid. Valorous - (adj) brave, courageous. Variegated - (adj) having discrete markings of different colors, varied. Vatic - (adj) of, relating to, or characteristic of a prophet. Vaunted - (adj) highly or widely praised or boasted about. Ventripotent - (adj) having a large belly; gluttonous. Vermicular - (adj) resembling, of, related to, or caused by worms. Vexacious - (adj) full of disorder or stress, causing trouble. Viscid - (adj) having a sticky or glutinous consistency. |
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Accoutrement - (n) an accessory item. Acumen - (n) keenness and depth of perception, discernment, or discrimination especially in practical matters. Anathema - (n) a curse declared by church authority and accompanied by excommunication, a person or thing that is cursed or strongly disliked. Ancilla - (n) an aid to achieving or mastering something difficult. Annie Oakley - (n) a free ticket. Antonomasia - (n) the substitution of a title or epithet for a proper name, as in calling a sovereign "Your Majesty," the substitution of a personal name for a common noun to designate a member of a group or class, as in calling a traitor a "Benedict Arnold." Aphorism - (n) a short saying that states a general truth. Apotheosis - (n) elevation to divine status : deification, the perfect example. Approbation - (n) an act of approval or commendation. Armamentarium - (n) resources available for an undertaking. Asperity - (n) rigor, severity, roughness of manner or of temper : harshness. Aspersion - (n) a slanderous or defamatory remark. Auscultation - (n) the act of listening. Babbit - (n) a business man who conforms unthinkingly to prevailing middle-class standards. Bandersnatch - (n) a person of uncouth or unconventional habits, attitudes, etc., especially one considered a menace, nuisance, or the like. Bastion - (n) a fortified position, something that is considered a stronghold. Benison - (n) blessing, benediction. Bindle stiff - (n) hobo. Bombast - (n) pretentious inflated speech or writing. Booboisie - (n) a segment of the general public composed of uneducated, uncultured persons. Boreas - (n) the god of the north wind in Greek Mythology, the north wind. Calumny - (n) a misrepresentation intended to blacken another's reputation, the act of uttering false charges or misrepresentations maliciously calculated to damage another's reputation. Chiasmus - (n) a rhetorical inversion of the second of two parallel structures. Circumlocution - (n) the use of an unnecessarily large number of words to express an idea, evasion in speech. Concinnity - (n) harmony or elegance of design. Concupiscence - (n) a strong desire, especially sexual. Coterie - (n) an intimate group. Cynosure - (n) center of attention. Demagogue - (n) a leader who makes use of popular prejudices and false claims and promises in order to gain power, a leader championing the cause of the common people in ancient times. Denizen - (n) inhabitant. Denouement - (n) the outcome of a sequence of events; the end result. Deus ex machina - (n) a person or thing (as in fiction or drama) that appears or is introduced suddenly and unexpectedly and provides a contrived solution to an apparently insoluble difficulty. Diatribe - (n) a bitter and abusive speech or writing, ironical or satirical criticism. Doppelganger - (n) a ghostly counterpart of a living person, alter ego. Dubiety - (n) the condition of being uncertain. Duplicity - (n) the disguising of true intentions by deceptive words or actions. Effrontery - (n) shameless boldness, insolence. Eschatology - (n) beliefs concerning death and the afterlife. Firebrand - (n) one that creates unrest or strife (as in aggressively promoting a cause) : agitator. Folderol - (n) a useless ornament or accessory, trifle; nonsense. Foofaraw - (n) disturbance over a trifle. Gadzookery - (n) the use of archaisms. Gaucherie - (n) a tactless action. Gordian knot - (n) an exceedingly complicated problem or deadlock; a knot tied by King Gordius of Phrygia and cut by Alexander the Great with his sword after hearing an oracle promise that whoever could undo it would be the next ruler of Asia. Harbinger - (n) one that indicates or foreshadows what is to come; a forerunner. Homily - (n) a short sermon, a lecture on a moral theme. Imbroglio - (n) a confused mass, an intricate or complicated situation, an acutely painful or embarrassing misunderstanding, a violently confused or bitterly complicated altercation : embroilment. Impunity - (n) exemption from punishment. Jeremiad - (n) A prolonged lamentation or complaint; a cautionary or angry harangue. Kakistocracy - (n) a government by the worst men. Kleptocracy - (n) a government characterize by rampant greed and corruption. Lodestar - (n) one that inspires or is a model or guide. Lucubration - (n) Laborious or intensive study; also : the product of such study. Macedoine - (n) a confused mixture, medley. Magnum Opus - (n) a great work, the greatest achievement of an artist or writer. Malapropism - (n) humorous misuse of a word. Megillah - (n) a tediously detailed or embroidered account. Meshuggener - (n) a foolish or crazy person. Miscegenation - (n) a mixture of different races. Cohabitation, sexual relations, or marriage involving persons of different races. Misoneism - (n) hatred or fear of change or innovation. Modicum - (n) a small portion. Morass - (n) a marsh or swamp, something that traps, confuses, or impedes. Mugwump - (n) an independent in politics. Nimiety - (n) excess, redundancy. Non Sequitor - (n) an inference that does not follow from the premises, a statment that does not follow logically from anything previously said. Occam's razor - (n) a scientific and philosophic rule which holds that the simplest of competing theories be preferred to the more complex. Pariah - (n) an outcast. Paroxysm - (n) a fit, attack, or sudden increase or recurrence of symptoms, a sudden violent emotion or action, outburst Peregrination - (n) an excursion especially on foot or to a foreign country; a journey. Persiflage - (n) frivolous bantering talk, light raillery. Pollyanna - (n) a person characterized by irrepressible optimism and a tendency to find good in everything. Pundit - (n) a learned person : teacher, authority, critic. Quid Pro Quo - (n) something given or received for something else. New Latin for "something for something." Quidnunc - (n) a person who seeks to know all the latest news or gossip : busybody. Qui vive - (n) alert, on the lookout. Raconteur - (n) a person who excels at telling anecdotes. Recidivism - (n) a tendency to relapse into a previous condition or mode of behavior; especially : relapse into criminal behavior. Recrudescence - (n) a new outbreak after a period of abatement or inactivity, renewal. Refulgence - (n) a radiant or resplendent quality or state : brilliance. Rodomont - (n) a vain or blustering boaster. Rubicon - (n) a bounding or limiting line; especially : one that when crossed commits a person irrevocably. Ruth - (n) sorrow for one's faults. Sansculotte - (n) a radical or violent extremist in politics. Simon Legree - (n) a brutal taskmaster. Snollygoster - (n) shrewd, unprincipled person. Sobriqeut - (n) a fancy nickname or a humorous name. Supererogation - (n) the act of performing more than is required by duty, obligation, or need. Sycophant - (n) one who flatters in the hope of gaining favors. Taradiddle - (n) a fib, pretentious nonsense. Tintinnabulation - (n) ringing of bells. Verbicide - (n) the willful distortion or depreciation of the original meaning of a word; a person who willfully distorts the meaning of a word. Vicissitude - (n) a change or succession from one thing to another; especially an often unfavorable event or situation that occurs by chance. Williwaw - (n) a sudden violent gust of cold land air common along mountainous coasts of high latitudes, a violent commotion. Woolgathering - (n) indulgence in idle daydreaming. Wowser - (n) an obtrusively puritanical person. Yokefellow - (n) a close companion, mate. |
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Abrogate - (v) to abolish by authoritative action : annul, to treat as nonexistent. Acquiesce - (v) to accept, comply or submit without open opposition. Ameliorate - (v) to make better or more tolerable, to grow better. Assuage - (v) to lessen the intensity of (something that pains or distresses), ease, pacify, quiet, to put an end to by satisfying : appease, quench. Attenuate - (v) to make or become thin, to weaken. Belie - (v) to give a false impression of, misrepresent: to show (something) to be false or wrong, to run counter to: to cover up: hide, disguise. Bemuse - (v) to make confused : bewilder, to occupy the attention of : absorb Bombinate - (v) Buzz, drone. Bullyrag - (v) to intimidate by bullying or teasing. Caterwaul - (v) to make a harsh cry, to quarrel noisily. Cerebrate - (v) to use the mind, to think. Cogitate - (v) to take careful thought or think carefully about; ponder. Commiserate - (v) to feel or express sympathy or compassion for. Delineate - (v) to picture in words or lines. Depone - (v) to declare or testify. Deprecate - (v)to belittle, to disparage. Depredate - (v) to lay waste, plunder, ravage. Elucidate - (v) to make lucid especially by explanation or analysis intransitive senses : to give a clarifying explanation. Enervate - (v) to reduce the mental or moral vigor of, to lessen the vitality or strength of. Eschew - (v) to avoid habitually. Etiolate - (v) to deprive of natural vigor, to make pale. Extemporize - (v) to improvise. Exuviate - (v) to shed or cast off. Flat hat - (v) to fly low in an airplane in a reckless manner. Fulminatte - (v) to utter or send out with denunciation. to send forth censures or invectives. Gambol - (v) to skip about in play. Inspissate - (v) to make thick or thicker. Imprecate - (v) to invoke evil upon; curse. Impugn - (v) To assail by words or arguments : oppose or attack as false or lacking integrity. Moil - (v) to work hard : drudge; to be in continuous agitation : churn, swirl. Mollify - (v) to soothe in temper or disposition. Mollycoddle - (v) to surround with an excessive or absurd degree of indulgence and attention. Muse - (v) to be absorbed in one's thoughts; engage in meditation. Nictitate - (v) to wink. Nonplus - (v) to cause to be at a loss as to what to say, think, or do : perplex. Obfuscate - (v) To make obscure, confuse. Objurgate - (v) to scold or rebuke sharply; berate. Obnubilate - (v) becloud, obscure. Perorate - (v) to speak at great length, often in a grandiloquent manner; declaim. Placate - (v) to soothe, appease. Prevaricate - (v) to deviate from the truth : equivocate. Propitiate - (v) to gain or regain the favor or goodwill of : appease, conciliate. Redact - (v) to draw up or frame, to make ready for publication; edit or revise. Repugn - Rusticate - (v) to go to or live in the country. Shamble - (v) to walk in an awkward, lazy, or unsteady manner, shuffling the feet. Stultify - (v) to cause to appear foolish or stupid; to impair, invalidate, or make ineffective. Sublimate - (v) to divert the expression of an instinctual desire or impulse from its primitive form to one that is considered more socially or culturally acceptable. Thimblerig - (v) to cheat by trickery, to swindle. Whinge - (v) to complain fretfully : whine. |