3013423067 | babbitt | a self-satisfied person concerned chiefly with business and middle class ideals like material success | 0 | |
3013429174 | brobdingnagian | gigantic, enormous, or a large scale, enlarged | 1 | |
3013431659 | bumble | to speak or behave clumsily or faltering | 2 | |
3013434060 | cinderella | one who gains affluence or recognition after obscurity and neglect | 3 | |
3013438454 | don juan | a libertine, profligate, a man obsessed with seducing women | 4 | |
3013442006 | don quixote | someone overly idealistic to the point of having impossible dreams | 5 | |
3013444978 | panglossian | blindly or misleading optimistic | 6 | |
3013446983 | falstaffian | full of wit and bawdy humor | 7 | |
3013448861 | frankenstein | anything that threatens or destroys its creator | 8 | |
3013452981 | friday | a faithful and willing attendant | 9 | |
3013454961 | galahad | a pure and noble man with limited ambition | 10 | |
3013457150 | Jekyll and hyde | a capricious person with two sides to their personality | 11 | |
3013460491 | lilliputan | very small person or of something diminutive, trivial or petty | 12 | |
3013466504 | little lord fauntleroy | refers to a certain type of childrens clothing or to a beautiful but pampered and effeminate small boy | 13 | |
3013472299 | lothario | used to describe a man whose chief interest is seducing women | 14 | |
3013475168 | malapropism | the usually unintentional humorous misuues or distortion of a word or phrase | 15 | |
3013478786 | milquetoast | a timid, weak, or unassertive person | 16 | |
3013480505 | pickwickian | humorous, sometimes derogatory | 17 | |
3013483261 | pollyanna | optimistic | 18 | |
3013484689 | pooh-bah | a popous, ostentatious official, holds high office | 19 | |
3013488177 | quixotic | having foolish or impractical ideas | 20 | |
3013491328 | robot | machine with no human emotions | 21 | |
3013494366 | rodomontade | bluster and boasting | 22 | |
3013496387 | scrooge | bitter and greedy person | 23 | |
3013497998 | simon legree | harsh, cruel, demanding | 24 | |
3013500068 | svengali | a person with irrestible, hypnotic power | 25 | |
3013502287 | tartuffe | hypocrite | 26 | |
3013503898 | uncle tom | someone thought to have timid service attitude like that of a slave | 27 | |
3013506956 | Uriah heep | a fawning toadie, obsequious person | 28 | |
3013509812 | walter mitty | a common place, non-adventuresome person who seeks escape from realtity | 29 | |
3013513552 | yahoo | a boorish, crass, or stupid person | 30 |
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