7282611740 | jovial (adj) | cheerful and friendly | 0 | |
7282611741 | convivial | (adj.) festive, sociable, having fun together, genial | 1 | |
7282611742 | Deference (noun) | Ingratiating, to kiss up. Respect, follow | 2 | |
7282611743 | abjection | Degrade, demote, the state being cast off | 3 | |
7282611744 | quizzical | Mildly teasing, expressing puzzlement | 4 | |
7282611745 | demure (adj) | Reserved, timid, unassuming, modest, low key | 5 | |
7282611746 | Brazen (adj) | Shameless, bold | 6 | |
7282611747 | Incredulity (noun) | Disbelief | 7 | |
7282611748 | imploringly | To beg, | 8 | |
7282611749 | malfeasance (n) | Wrongdoing | 9 | |
7282611750 | Solemn (adj) | Gloomy, sour, morose | 10 | |
7361745360 | Didactic (adj) | Intend to teach | 11 | |
7361745361 | Historionic | overly dramatic | 12 | |
7361745362 | conciliatory, mollifying | Consolatory | 13 | |
7361745363 | Disparaging | Derogatory | 14 | |
7361745364 | Sardonic | Grimly mocking or cynical | 15 | |
7361745365 | Acerbic (adj) | Acrid | 16 | |
7361745366 | Effusive | gushing, enthusiastic, over the top | 17 | |
7384345366 | sullen (adj) | Gloomy | 18 | |
7447341251 | Reverie | Day dream | 19 | |
7447341252 | Undulate | Fluctuate | 20 | |
7447341253 | Indelible | Unerasible | 21 | |
7447341254 | Infinitesimal | Tiny | 22 | |
7447341255 | conciliatory (adj) | Consolatory | 23 | |
7479950451 | Obsequious | Fawning, obedient, excessive servile, ingratiating, sigfantic.. | 24 | |
7479950452 | Reticent (adj) | not willing to tell people about things. Reserved, withdrawn, diffident | 25 | |
7479950453 | insipid (adj) | uninspired; uninteresting; dull, boring, lame, lacking flavor | 26 | |
7479950454 | Incensed | Very angry, raged, irate | 27 | |
7479950455 | abstruse (adj) | hard to understand | 28 | |
7479950456 | esoteric (adj) | Hard to understand, understood by small people | 29 | |
7479950457 | Caustic (adj) | Acerbic, vitriolic | 30 | |
7479950458 | inane (adj) | Dumb, silly, | 31 | |
8055010113 | ebullient (adj) | enthusiastic, exciting, boiling over. | 32 | |
8055010114 | Dubious | Doubtful | 33 | |
8055010115 | Dogmatic | Someone stubborn to a belief | 34 | |
8055010116 | Chasm | A gorge, a deep hole, gap between something, philosophical idea | 35 | |
8055010117 | chagrin (n) | embarrassment; a complete loss of courage. Much to my | 36 | |
8055010118 | Espouse | To support, promote | 37 | |
8055010119 | Zeitgist | Spirit of the time | 38 | |
8531301942 | amicable | Friendly | 39 | |
8531301943 | Brusque (adj) | Abrupt, blunt, with no formalities. Blunt, rude, perentary? | 40 | |
8531301944 | capitulate (v) | to surrender | 41 | |
8531301945 | hackneyed | overused, cliched. Over family, repeated too often | 42 | |
8531301946 | spurious (adj) | not genuine, not true, not valid. Plausible but false. Counterfeit in a way | 43 | |
8531301947 | Impetuous (adj) | acting or done quickly and without thought or care. Doing something too quickly | 44 | |
8531301948 | perfidious (adj) | faithless, disloyal, untrustworthy. Intending to betray | 45 | |
8531301949 | prosaic (adj) | dull; lacking in spirit or imagination. Lacking imagination | 46 | |
8531301950 | archaic (adj) | very old or old-fashioned | 47 | |
8649825017 | Expidient (adj) | convenient, efficient, practical | 48 | |
8649825018 | Invidious (adj) | Offensive, hateful; tending to cause bitterness and resentment | 49 | |
8673525079 | Illiteration | repeating the beginning sound of several words in a sentence | 50 | |
8673525080 | allegory (n) | story in which characters are used as symbols; fable | 51 | |
8673525081 | Illusion | 52 | ||
8673525082 | ambiguous (adj) | open to more than one interpretation | 53 | |
8673525083 | Anadiplosis | repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause | 54 | |
8673525084 | analogy (n) | a comparison between things that are alike in some ways | 55 | |
8673525085 | Anaphora | the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses | 56 | |
8673525086 | anecdote | short account of event | 57 | |
8673525087 | antecedent | the word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun | 58 | |
8673525088 | Aphorism | A brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life. | 59 | |
8751770826 | Apostrophe | address to an absent or imaginary person | 60 | |
8751770827 | atmosphere | Emotional mood | 61 | |
8751770828 | Clause | A grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb. | 62 | |
8751770829 | Colloquial | Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing | 63 | |
8751770830 | coherent | The meaning of the whole becomes clear. | 64 | |
8751770831 | concede (v) | 65 | ||
8751770832 | Connotation | All the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests | 66 | |
8751770833 | Denotation (n) | The dictionary definition of a word | 67 | |
9129955113 | Privy | sharing in the knowledge of (something secret or private). | 68 | |
9129955114 | Reproach | Disapproval, blame | 69 | |
9129955115 | supercilious (adj) | arrogant | 70 | |
9129955116 | fractiousness (n) | trait of being prone to disobedience and lack of discipline | 71 | |
9129955117 | peremptorily (adv) | decisively, commandingly | 72 | |
9298774804 | Punctilious (adj) | Paying strict attention to detail; extremely careful | 73 | |
9298774805 | fastidious (adj) | very attentive to and concerned about accuracy and detail | 74 | |
9298774806 | disconcerting (adj) | causing one to feel unsettled | 75 | |
9298774807 | denizens | inhabitants or occupants | 76 | |
9298774808 | vestige (n) | a mark, trace, or visible evidence of something that is no longer present or in existence | 77 | |
9298774809 | remnant (n) | a small amount left over after the rest has been used; a surviving trace | 78 | |
9298774810 | nebulous | vague | 79 | |
9298774811 | laudable (adj) | worthy of praise | 80 | |
9298774812 | Insidious (adj) | Dangerous | 81 | |
9298774813 | Meretricious (adj) | Attractive in a cheap, flashy way | 82 | |
9298774814 | ineffable | inexpressible | 83 | |
9298774815 | ingratiate | to make oneself agreeable and thus gain favor or acceptance by others | 84 | |
9298774816 | dilatory (adj) | tending to delay or procrastinate | 85 | |
9298774817 | morbid (adj) | gruesome | 86 | |
9298774818 | disquieting (adj) | disturbing | 87 | |
9298777683 | magnanimous | generous | 88 | |
9298822398 | Pretentious (adj) | trying to impress others by pretending to be more important or better than you actually are | 89 | |
9298822399 | Portentous (adj) | Foreboding; ominous; suggesting oncoming evil | 90 | |
9298822400 | expostulate | to attempt to dissuade someone from some course or decision by earnest reasoning | 91 | |
9298822401 | Garrulous (adj) | excessively talkative | 92 | |
9683783820 | vexed (adj) | Conflicted | 93 | |
9683783821 | sanguine (adj) | cheerfully optimistic | 94 | |
9683783822 | Incendiary (adj) | Inflammatory; inflaming the senses | 95 | |
9683783823 | exacerbate | to make worse | 96 | |
9683783824 | admonitory (adj) | giving or conveying a warning or reprimand | 97 | |
9683783825 | genial (adj) | friendly and cheerful | 98 |
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