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| 15272831803 | Allusive | suggestive, hinting | 0 | |
| 15272831804 | Aloof | haughty, distant | 1 | |
| 15272831805 | Ambivalent | indecisive, having mixed emotions | 2 | |
| 15272831806 | Apathetic | uncaring, uninvolved | 3 | |
| 15272831807 | Audacious | bold, insolent | 4 | |
| 15272831808 | Belligerent | contentious | 5 | |
| 15272831809 | Candid | frank, truthful | 6 | |
| 15272831810 | Censorious | severely critical, condemnatory | 7 | |
| 15272831811 | Clinical | detached, coolly dispassionate | 8 | |
| 15272831812 | Complacent | self-satisfied, smug | 9 | |
| 15272831813 | Condescending | showing superiority, patronizing | 10 | |
| 15272831814 | Contemptuous | scornful, disdainful, disrespectful, irrelevant | 11 | |
| 15272831815 | Critical | judging harshly | 12 | |
| 15272831816 | Cynical | distrustful of human nature and motives, misanthropic | 13 | |
| 15272831817 | Detached | unconcerned, aloof, distant, unbiased | 14 | |
| 15272831818 | Didactic | instructive | 15 | |
| 15272831819 | Dispassionate | unaffected by strong feeling; showing coolness of judgment | 16 | |
| 15272831820 | Dogmatic | authoritative, assertive, arrogant | 17 | |
| 15272831821 | Effusive | excessively demonstrative, gushing | 18 | |
| 15272831822 | Elegiac | expressing sorrow | 19 | |
| 15272831823 | Flippant | lacking proper respect or seriousness | 20 | |
| 15272831824 | Frivolous | lacking seriousness, playful, silly | 21 | |
| 15272831825 | Giddy | lightheartedly silly | 22 | |
| 15272831826 | Impartial | unbiased, objective | 23 | |
| 15272831827 | Impassioned | ardent, fervent, fervid | 24 | |
| 15272831828 | Importunate | overly persistent in demand | 25 | |
| 15272831829 | Incredulous | not believing | 26 | |
| 15272831830 | Indignant | showing anger at injustice | 27 | |
| 15272831831 | Insolent | arrogant, overbearing, impudent | 28 | |
| 15272831832 | Irate | angry | 29 | |
| 15272831833 | Irreverent | disrespectful | 30 | |
| 15272831834 | Jocular | joking, humorous | 31 | |
| 15272831835 | Lugubrious | dismal, mournful | 32 | |
| 15272831836 | Pedantic | overly concerned with minor details; overly academic | 33 | |
| 15272831837 | Pompous | arrogant, self-important | 34 | |
| 15272831838 | Puerile | childish, juvenile | 35 | |
| 15272831839 | Pungent | caustic, stinging, biting | 36 | |
| 15272831840 | Sardonic | disdainfully humorous, sarcastic | 37 | |
| 15272831841 | Satirical | ridiculing, ironic, mocking, taunting | 38 | |
| 15272831842 | Sentimental | affectedly emotional, maudlin | 39 | |
| 15272831843 | Skeptical | questioning, doubting | 40 | |
| 15272831844 | Somber | serious, solemn, gloomy, grave, melancholy | 41 | |
| 15272831845 | Supercilious | haughtily contemptuous | 42 | |
| 15272831846 | Tongue-in-cheek | ironic, facetious, sarcastic | 43 | |
| 15272831847 | Vexed | annoyed, agitated | 44 | |
| 15272831848 | Vindictive | vengeful, spiteful, vicious | 45 | |
| 15272831849 | Zealous | eager, passionate, fervent | 46 | |
| 15272831850 | Colloquial | used in ordinary or familiar conversation; not literary or formal | 47 | |
| 15272831851 | Connotative | suggestive of an associative or secondary meaning | 48 | |
| 15272831852 | Esoteric | intended for people with a specialized knowledge or interest. | 49 | |
| 15272831853 | Euphemistic | phrased in an indirect way to refer to something unpleasant | 50 | |
| 15272831854 | Grotesque | repulsively ugly and distorted | 51 | |
| 15272831855 | Homespun | simple, unsophisticated, rustic | 52 | |
| 15272831856 | Idiomatic | containing expressions natural to a native speaker | 53 | |
| 15272831857 | Insipid | lacking flavor, dull, lifeless | 54 | |
| 15272831858 | Jargon | specialized words difficult for others to understand. | 55 | |
| 15272831859 | Moralistic | overfond of making moral judgements about others | 56 | |
| 15272831860 | Pedantic | overly concerned with minor details; overly academic | 57 | |
| 15272831861 | Picturesque | visually attractive | 58 | |
| 15272831862 | Pretentious | attempting to impress through affectation | 59 | |
| 15272831863 | Prosaic | commonplace, unromantic, everyday | 60 |
