5049775948 | Quip | A witty remark | 0 | |
5049775949 | Aphorism | A wise saying | 1 | |
5049775950 | Pithy | Expressive | 2 | |
5049775951 | Esoteric | Intended for or understood by the select few that have special knowledge or interest | 3 | |
5049775952 | Prurience | Inclined to have or characterized by luscious or lustful thoughts, desires, etc | 4 | |
5049775953 | Prosy | Dull,tedious,wearisome, or commonplace | 5 | |
5049775954 | Rigmaroles | Elaborate or complicated procedure | 6 | |
5049775955 | Erudition | Knowledge acquired by study | 7 | |
5049775956 | Pious | Characterized by a hypocritical concern with virtue or religious devotion | 8 | |
5049775957 | Aposiopesis | A sudden braking off in the midst of a sentence | 9 | |
5049775958 | Licentiousness | Sexually unrestrained; lascivious | 10 | |
5049775959 | Chaste | Not engaging in sexual relations | 11 | |
5049775960 | Notoriety | The state, quality, or character of being known for a bad reason | 12 | |
5049775961 | Malodorous | Having an unpleasant or offensive odor | 13 | |
5049775962 | Putrefaction | The anaerobic decomposition of organic matter by bacteria | 14 | |
5049775963 | Odious | Deserving or causing hatred; hateful; detestable | 15 | |
5049775964 | Execrated | To detest utterly; abhor; abominable | 16 | |
5049926836 | Poseurs | A person who attempts to impress others by assuming or affecting a manner, degree of elegance, sentiment | 17 | |
5049926837 | Mawkish | Desire to inflict injury, harm or suffering on another either because of a hostile impulse or out of deep-seated meanness | 18 | |
5049926838 | Virulence | Venomous hostility | 19 | |
5049926839 | Exasperate | To irritate or provoke to a high degree; annoy extremely | 20 | |
5049926840 | Profligate/ libertine | Morally unrestrained, free with morals | 21 | |
5049926841 | Vitriol | Hate speech | 22 | |
5049926842 | Diatribe | Direct attack | 23 | |
5049926843 | Invective | Censure or reproach | 24 | |
5049926844 | Syllogism | A form of logical reasoning | 25 | |
5049926845 | Paradox | A statement that contradicts itself | 26 | |
5049926846 | Anecdote | Short funny story | 27 | |
5049926847 | Oxymoron | 2 words that contradict themselves | 28 | |
5049926848 | Digression | Revering of a particular topic | 29 | |
5049926849 | Acuity | Mental sharpness | 30 | |
5049926850 | Transience | Fleeting, effeminate nature | 31 | |
5049926851 | Inverted syntax | Verb comes first than subject | 32 | |
5049926852 | Minutiae | Small, precise, trivial | 33 | |
5049926853 | Doting | Proudly caring for somebody | 34 | |
5049926854 | Obfuscate | To confuse bewilder or stupefying | 35 | |
5049926855 | Orthodoxy | Orthodox belief or practice | 36 | |
5049926856 | Underscore | Stress or emphasize | 37 | |
5049926857 | Flippant | Disrespectful, shallow, or lacking in seriousness | 38 | |
5049926858 | Debased | To reduce quality or value | 39 | |
5049926859 | Duplicity | An act or instance of such deceitfulness | 40 | |
5049926860 | Colloquialism | Characteristic of or to ordinary or familiar conversation | 41 | |
5049926861 | Allure | To attract or tempt by something flattering or desirable | 42 | |
5049926862 | Cynicism | Disposition, character, or belief distrusting or disparaging the motives of others | 43 | |
5049926863 | Frivolously | Non important | 44 | |
5049926864 | Feigned | Pretended; sham; counterfeit, assumed, fictitious, disguised | 45 | |
5049926865 | Bravado | A pretentious, swaggering display of courage | 46 | |
5049926866 | Musing | Thinking, pondering | 47 | |
5049926867 | Salient | Stands out | 48 | |
5049926868 | Recapitulate | Summarizing | 49 | |
5652075002 | Dignity | bearing, conduct, or speech indicative of self-respect or appreciation of the formality or gravity of an occasion or situation. | 50 | |
5652075003 | Pernicious | Causing insidious harm or ruin | 51 | |
5652093115 | Pedantic | Preachy | 52 | |
5652093116 | Perspicuity | Clear and easy to understand | 53 | |
5652101876 | Cant | Hypocritical, sanctimonious | 54 | |
5652107071 | Circumlocutions | Talking in circles | 55 | |
5692789815 | Caricature | A picture, description, etc., ludicrously exaggerating the peculiarities or defects of persons or things. Ex: his caricature of the mayor in this mornings paper is the best he's ever drawn. | 56 | |
5692789816 | Dispassionate | Devoid of personal feeling or bias | 57 | |
5692789817 | Conciliatory | Placating; attempting to win favor or goodwill | 58 | |
5692789818 | Incredulity | Disbelief | 59 | |
5692789819 | Spontaneity | Impulsiveness | 60 | |
5692789820 | Fledgling | Inexperienced | 61 | |
5692789821 | Unremitting | Unceasing, without stopping | 62 | |
5692789822 | Candor | The state or quality of being frank, open, sincere | 63 | |
5692789823 | Brash | Impertinent; basic repugnance; aversion | 64 | |
5692789824 | Whimsical | Exhibiting whims--capricious or eccentric and often sudden idea | 65 | |
5692789825 | Incisive | Impressively direct and decisive in presentation; straight to the point, cutting to the heart of something | 66 | |
5692789826 | Picturesque | Visually charming or quaint, as if resembling or suitable for painting; strikingly graphic or vivid; creating detailed mental images: | 67 | |
5692789827 | Exhortation | Urgent pleading | 68 | |
5692789828 | Discretion | The quality of behaving or speaking in such a way as to avoid social embarrassment or distress | 69 | |
5692789829 | Rhapsody | Highly emotional literary work or effusively passionate discourse, | 70 | |
5692789830 | Maverick | A lone dissenter, as an intellectual , artist, or politician, who takes an independent stand apart from his or her associates | 71 | |
5692789831 | Noncommittal | Refusing commitment to a particular opinion or course of action; not revealing what one feels or thinks | 72 | |
5692789832 | Truism | Undoubted or self evident truth, esp. one that is too obvious to mention | 73 | |
5692789833 | Understatement | A form of irony in which something is intentionally represented as less than it is: "Hank Aaron was a pretty good ball player." | 74 | |
5692789834 | Begging the question | If one's premises entail one's conclusion, and one's premises are questionable, one is said to beg the question. | 75 | |
5692789835 | Jargon | Unintelligible or meaningless talk or writing | 76 | |
5692789836 | Colloquial | Familiar, ordinary | 77 | |
5692789837 | Lunacy | Insanity, mental disorder | 78 | |
5692789838 | Winnowing | To drive or blow away by fanning | 79 | |
5692789839 | Luxuriated | To enjoy oneself without stint; revel: to luxuriate in newly acquired wealth | 80 | |
5692789840 | Stifling | Suffocating; oppressively close | 81 | |
5692789841 | Dissemination | Spreading widely | 82 | |
5692789842 | Loquacious | Talkative, gregarious | 83 | |
5692789843 | Partisanship | People loyal only to a your affiliated party | 84 | |
5692789844 | Mended | To remove or correct defects | 85 | |
5692789845 | Nurturant | Warm & affectionate physical & emotional support & care | 86 | |
5692789846 | Ashtray | Receptacle for tobacco ashes of smokers | 87 | |
5692789847 | Hors d'oeuvres | A small bit of appetizing food, as spicy meat, fish, cheese, or a preparation of chopped or cream cheese | 88 | |
5692789848 | Adherence | Steady devotion, support, allegiance, or attachment | 89 | |
5692789849 | Enumerating | To mention separately as if in counting; name one by one | 90 | |
5692789850 | Juxtapose | To place close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast | 91 | |
5692789851 | Amorphous | Without shape | 92 | |
5692789852 | Concession | Admitting in someone's argument | 93 | |
5692789853 | Covetousness | Inordinately or wrongly desirous of wealth or possessions | 94 | |
5692789854 | Ancillary | Subordinate; subsidiary | 95 | |
5692789855 | Reproach | Disapproval | 96 | |
5692789856 | Lucid | Easily understood; completely intelligible or comprehensible | 97 | |
5692789857 | Plosive | Explosive | 98 | |
5692789858 | Understatement | Under exaggeration of a statement | 99 | |
5692789859 | Immolation | By fire | 100 | |
5693239286 | Syntax | The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language | 101 | |
5693239287 | Diction | The choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing | 102 | |
5693239288 | Tone | The general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation, etc | 103 | |
5693239289 | Imagery | Visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work | 104 | |
5693239290 | Inclusion | The action or state of including or being included within a group of structure | 105 | |
5693239291 | Exclusion | The process or state of excluding or being excluded | 106 | |
5693239292 | Lexicographer | Writer of dictionaries | 107 | |
5693239293 | Lofty | Elevated, at a high level | 108 | |
5693239294 | Pedestrian | Basic | 109 | |
5693239295 | Mackerel | A food fish, "Scomber scombrsus", of the North Atlantic, having way cross markings on the back | 110 | |
5693239296 | Influx | Act of flowing in | 111 | |
5693239297 | Ostracize | To exclude, by general consent, from society | 112 | |
5693239298 | Rapture | Ecstatic joy or delight | 113 | |
5693239299 | Soufflé | A murmuring or blowing sound heard on auscultation | 114 | |
5693239300 | Auscultation | Act of listening, either directly or through a stethoscope or other instruments, to sounds within the body as a method of diagnosis | 115 | |
5693239301 | Opining | Verb form of opinion | 116 | |
5693239302 | Logical argument | Structured evidence | 117 | |
5693239303 | Yield | Business strategy tactic | 118 | |
5693239304 | Dichotomy | A comparison of 2 specific groups | 119 | |
5693239306 | Kernel sentence | A simple, active, declarative sentence containing no modifiers or connectives that may be used in making more elaborate sentences | 120 | |
5693239307 | Ad hominem | An attack against a person rather than their argument | 121 | |
5693239308 | Paralipsis | The suggestion that much of importance is being omitted | 122 | |
5898898908 | Commensurate | Equal in worth | 123 | |
5898988242 | Travail | Work | 124 | |
5898988243 | Pinnacle | The peak | 125 | |
5898988244 | Anguish | Something bad happens | 126 | |
5898988245 | Verities | the state or quality of being true; accordance with fact or reality: to question the verity of a statement. | 127 | |
5898988246 | Polysyndeton* | The use of many connectives | 128 | |
5899095419 | Maudlin | Self pitying or tearfully sentimental | 129 | |
5899095420 | Derisive | characterized by or expressing derision; contemptuous; mocking: derisive heckling. | 130 | |
5899095421 | Scholarly | of, like, or befitting a scholar: scholarly habits | 131 | |
5899095423 | Melancholy | a gloomy state of mind, especially when habitual or prolonged; depression. | 132 | |
5929044639 | Disquisition | a formal discourse or treatise in which a subject is examined and discussed; dissertation. | 133 | |
5929044640 | Propitious | presenting favorable conditions; favorable: propitious weather. | 134 | |
5929044641 | Antiquated | continued from, resembling, or adhering to the past; old-fashioned: antiquated attitudes. | 135 | |
5929044642 | Eloquence | the practice or art of using language with fluency and aptness. | 136 | |
5929044643 | Forbearance | an abstaining from the enforcement of a right. | 137 | |
5929044644 | Jaded | dulled or satiated by overindulgence: a jaded appetite. | 138 | |
5929044645 | Caustic | Harsh form of sarcasm | 139 | |
5964804539 | Congenital | of or pertaining to a condition present at birth, whether inherited or caused by the environment, especially the uterine environment. | 140 | |
5964804540 | Analogous | having analogy; corresponding in some particular | 141 | |
5964804541 | Obdurate | unmoved by persuasion, pity, or tender feelings; stubborn; unyielding. | 142 | |
5964804542 | Spurious | not genuine, authentic, or true; not from the claimed, pretended, or proper source; counterfeit. | 143 | |
5964804543 | Ductile | capable of being hammered out thin, as certain metals; malleable. Other definitions include gullible. | 144 | |
5964804544 | Recondite | dealing with very profound, difficult, or abstruse subject matter: a recondite treatise. | 145 | |
5964804545 | Gaudy | brilliantly or excessively showy: gaudy plumage. | 146 | |
5965071873 | Enervating | to deprive of force or strength; destroy the vigor of; weaken. | 147 | |
5965071874 | Ardently | having, expressive of, or characterized by intense feeling; passionate; fervent: an ardent vow; ardent love. | 148 | |
5965071875 | Curmudgeonly | a bad-tempered, difficult, cantankerous person. | 149 | |
5965071876 | Punctilious | extremely attentive to punctilios; strict or exact in the observance of the formalities or amenities of conduct or actions. | 150 | |
5965071877 | Poignant | keen or strong in mental appeal: a subject of poignant interest. | 151 | |
5965071878 | Guffaw | a loud, unrestrained burst of laughter. | 152 | |
5965071879 | Platitudes | a flat, dull, or trite remark, especially one uttered as if it were fresh or profound. | 153 | |
5965071880 | Plethoric | overfull; turgid; inflated: a plethoric, pompous speech. | 154 | |
5965071881 | Sumptuous | entailing great expense, as from choice materials, fine work, etc.; costly: a sumptuous residence. | 155 | |
5965071882 | Garnitures | something that garnishes; decoration; adornment. | 156 | |
5965314615 | Perfidious | deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover. | 157 | |
5965314616 | Nascent | beginning to exist or develop: the nascent republic. | 158 | |
5965314617 | Perpetuity | endless or indefinitely long duration or existence; eternity. | 159 | |
5965314618 | Transient | not lasting, enduring, or permanent; transitory. | 160 | |
5965314619 | Quintessential | of or pertaining to the most perfect embodiment of something: the quintessential performance of the Brandenburg Concertos. | 161 | |
5965314620 | Innocuous | not harmful or injurious; harmless: an innocuous home remedy. | 162 | |
5965314621 | Subliminal | existing or operating below the threshold of consciousness; being or employing stimuli insufficiently intense to produce a discrete sensation but often being or designed to be intense enough to influence the mental processes or the behavior of the individual: a subliminal stimulus; subliminal advertising. | 163 | |
6016369905 | Ardor | enthusiasm or passion. | 164 | |
6016369906 | Ameba | a single-celled animal that catches food and moves about by extending fingerlike projections of protoplasm. Amoebas are either free-living in damp environments or parasitic. | 165 | |
6026254822 | Egregious | Most serious mistake | 166 | |
6030227531 | Lascivious | (of a person, manner, or gesture) feeling or revealing an overt and often offensive sexual desire. "he gave her a lascivious wink" synonyms: | 167 | |
6081832718 | Pernicious | Viscous | 168 | |
6590485315 | Infinitesimal | Infinitely small | 169 | |
6590485316 | Extemporizing | To compose, produce, perform | 170 | |
6590485317 | Audible | Able to be heard | 171 | |
6590485318 | Vigil | A period of staying awake | 172 | |
6590485319 | Settee | Seat for 2 or more people | 173 | |
6590485320 | Velvet | A fabric of silk, acetate | 174 | |
6590532682 | Turbulent | Conflict, disorder, confusion | 175 | |
6590532683 | Feebly | Lacking strength or force | 176 | |
6590532684 | Ether | Highly volatile chemical | 177 | |
6590532685 | Uninflected | No distinction in words | 178 | |
6590532686 | Glinted | Give out or reflect small flashes of light | 179 | |
6590532687 | Rotogravure | Printing system using rotary press | 180 | |
6590532688 | Anon | Soon | 181 | |
6590532689 | Libel | False statement that was published | 182 | |
6590532690 | Peremptory | Not open to appeal | 183 | |
6590532691 | Peremptorily | Insisting on immediate attention, obedience | 184 |
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