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| 5135358413 | pedantic | overly concerned with minute details or formalisms, esp. in teaching; concern for book learning formal rules | 0 | |
| 5135358414 | euphemistic | substituting a mild term for a harsher or distasteful one. "Upset Stomach" instead of puke, barf, up chuck | 1 | |
| 5135358415 | pretentious | attempting to impress by making an exaggerated outward show; ostentatious; | 2 | |
| 5135358416 | sensuous | Of, relating to, or derived from the senses; Appealing to or gratifying the senses | 3 | |
| 5135358417 | exact | precise; characterized by or using strict accuracy | 4 | |
| 5135358418 | cultured | enlightened; refined; the quality in a person or society that arises from a concern for what is regarded as excellent in arts, letters, manners, scholarly pursuits, etc | 5 | |
| 5135358419 | plain | clear to the mind; evident, manifest, or obvious; without intricacies or difficulties; with little or no embellishment, decoration, or enhancing elaboration; ordinary | 6 | |
| 5135358420 | literal | not figurative or metaphorical: the literal meaning of a word | 7 | |
| 5135358421 | colloquial | informal, conversational (specific to a region or area) | 8 | |
| 5135358422 | artificial | insincere or unnatural | 9 | |
| 5135358423 | detached | unbiased; not involved or concerned; aloof | 10 | |
| 5135358425 | moralistic | Characterized by or displaying a concern with morality; marked by narrow-minded morality | 11 | |
| 5135358426 | slang | very informal usage in vocabulary and idiom that is characteristically more metaphorical, playful, elliptical, vivid, and ephemeral than ordinary language, as Hit the road. | 12 | |
| 5135358427 | idiomatic | an expression whose meaning cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up. containing or using many idioms (idiom=an expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituent elements, as kick the bucket or hang one's head, or from the general grammatical rules of a language; regional speech or dialect eat crow) | 13 | |
| 5135358428 | esoteric | understood by or meant for only the select few who have special knowledge or interest; private; secret; confidential; belonging to a select few | 14 | |
| 5135358429 | symbolic | characterized by or involving the use of symbols | 15 | |
| 5135358430 | simple | not grand or sophisticated; unpretentious; not complex or complicated; natural, unembellished; ordinary | 16 | |
| 5135358431 | figurative | of the nature of or involving a figure of speech, esp. a metaphor; metaphorical; not literal: a figurative expression | 17 | |
| 5135358432 | bombastic | high sounding but with little meaning; inflated | 18 | |
| 5135358433 | abstruse | hard to understand; recondite; esoteric; secret, hidden | 19 | |
| 5135358434 | grotesque | odd or unnatural in shape, appearance, or character; fantastically ugly or absurd; bizarre, distorted, deformed, weird | 20 | |
| 5135358435 | vulgar | characterized by ignorance of or lack of good breeding or taste; indecent; obscene; lewd | 21 | |
| 5135358436 | scholarly | concerned with academic learning; of, like, or befitting a scholar; academic | 22 | |
| 5135358437 | insipid | without distinctive, interesting, or stimulating qualities; vapid: an insipid personality. bland | 23 | |
| 5135358438 | precise | definitely or strictly stated, defined, or fixed, carefully distinct, explicit | 24 | |
| 5135358439 | learned | having much knowledge; scholarly; erudite; | 25 | |
| 5135358440 | picturesque | strikingly graphic or vivid; creating detailed mental images: a picturesque description of the Brazilian jungle; having pleasing or interesting qualities; strikingly effective in appearance | 26 | |
| 5135358443 | trite | lacking in originality | 27 | |
| 5135358444 | obscure | not clear or plain; uncertain | 28 | |
| 5135358445 | archaic | marked by the characteristics of an earlier period; primitive; ancient; old | 29 | |
| 5135358446 | verbose | characterized by the use of many or too many words; wordy: a verbose report | 30 | |
| 5135358447 | abstract | difficult to understand; abstruse; thought of apart from concrete realities, specific objects, or actual instances | 31 | |
| 5135358448 | biting | cutting, sarcastic | 32 | |
| 5135358449 | brusque | abrupt in manner; blunt | 33 | |
| 5135358451 | casual | without definite or serious intention; careless or offhand; seeming or tending to be indifferent to what is happening; apathetic; unconcerned | 34 | |
| 5135358452 | caustic | severely critical or sarcastic; biting, mordant, bitter, scathing, | 35 | |
| 5135358453 | concrete | constituting an actual thing or instance; real; pertaining to or concerned with realities or actual instances rather than abstractions; particular | 36 | |
| 5135358454 | colorful | richly eventful or picturesque; presenting or suggesting vivid or striking scenes; spirited | 37 | |
| 5135358455 | connotative | the implied meaning | 38 | |
| 5135358457 | curt | rudely brief in speech or abrupt in manner; short, brief, concise | 39 | |
| 5135358458 | denotative | the primary or specific meaning of a word. Dictionary definition | 40 | |
| 5135358459 | divisive | creating dissension or discord; forming or expressing division | 41 | |
| 5135358460 | emotional | pertaining to or involving emotion or the emotions; appealing to the emotions; showing or revealing strong emotions, temperamental, effusive, demonstrative, sentimental | 42 | |
| 5135358463 | flowery | rhetorically ornate or precious; showy; bombastic | 43 | |
| 5135358464 | formal | of, reflecting, or noting a usage of language in which syntax, pronunciation, etc., adhere to traditional standards of correctness and usage is characterized by the absence of casual, contracted, and colloquial forms | 44 | |
| 5135358465 | inflammatory | tending to arouse anger, hostility, passion; fiery; provocative | 45 | |
| 5135358466 | informal | suitable to or characteristic of casual and familiar, but educated, speech or writing; unconventional | 46 | |
| 5135358467 | insincere | not sincere; not honest in the expression of actual feeling; hypocritical; deceitful; disingenuous | 47 | |
| 5135358468 | jargon | the language, esp. the vocabulary, peculiar to a particular trade, profession, or group | 48 | |
| 5135358469 | loaded | charged with emotional or associative significance that hinders rational or unprejudiced consideration of the terms involved in a discourse | 49 | |
| 5135358473 | nostalgic | a wistful desire to return in thought or in fact to a former time in one's life, to one's home or homeland, or to one's family and friends; a sentimental yearning for the happiness of a former place or time | 50 | |
| 5135358474 | offensive | causing resentful displeasure; highly irritating, angering, or annoying; insulting; displeasing, vexatious, vexing, unpleasant | 51 | |
| 5135358475 | ornate | ostentatious, elaborately adorned, showy, embellished with rhetoric, high flown (extravagant in aims/pretentious) | 52 | |
| 5135358476 | passionate | having, compelled by, or ruled by intense emotion or strong feeling; fervid; zealous; ardent; enthusiastic; glowing; fiery | 53 | |
| 5135358477 | patriotic | expressing or inspired by patriotism; love of one's country | 54 | |
| 5135358478 | political | of, pertaining to, or concerned with politics; government | 55 | |
| 5135358479 | romantic | of, pertaining to, or of the nature of romance; characteristic or suggestive of the world of romance; fanciful; impractical; unrealistic: romantic ideas; imbued with or dominated by idealism, a desire for adventure, chivalry; | 56 | |
| 5135358480 | sentimental | expressive of or appealing to sentiment, esp. the tender emotions and feelings, as love, pity, or nostalgia; weakly emotional; mawkishly susceptible or tender; romantic, tender, nostalgic; maudlin, bathetic | 57 | |
| 5135358481 | shocking | causing intense surprise, disgust, horror; staggering, astounding, startling, appalling | 58 | |
| 5135358482 | sincere | free of deceit, hypocrisy, or falseness; earnest; genuine; real; pure; unmixed; unadulterated; frank, candid, honest, open, guileless; straightforward | 59 | |
| 5135358484 | tame | lacking in excitement; dull; insipid; softened; meek; subdued | 60 | |
| 5135358485 | technical | peculiar to or characteristic of a particular art, science, profession, trade; using terminology or treating subject matter in a manner peculiar to a particular field, as a writer or a book; | 61 | |
| 5135358487 | uppity | affecting an attitude of inflated self-esteem; haughty; snobbish; presumptuously arrogant | 62 |
