13839282933 | Cogent | convincing; reasonable | 0 | |
13839283816 | Didactic | intended to instruct | 1 | |
13839284908 | Lucid | easy to understand, clear; rational, sane | 2 | |
13839286493 | Arbiter | a judge who decides a disputed issue | 3 | |
13839287764 | Exculpate | to free from blame | 4 | |
13839289113 | Incontrovertible | indisputable; not open to question | 5 | |
13839292248 | Substantiated | supported with proof or evidence; verified | 6 | |
13839293122 | Despotic | exercising absolute power; tyrannical | 7 | |
13839293123 | Haughty | arrogant; vainly proud | 8 | |
13839295454 | Imperious | arrogantly domineering or overbearing | 9 | |
13839299013 | Convoluted | intricate and complicated | 10 | |
13839299014 | Futile | useless; hopeless | 11 | |
13839300466 | Impede | to slow the progress of | 12 | |
13839301718 | Indolent | lazy | 13 | |
13839302935 | Impinge | hinder; interfere with | 14 | |
13839302936 | Servile | submissive; slavish | 15 | |
13839305116 | Opulent | wealthy, luxurious; ample; grandiose | 16 | |
13839310597 | Ostentatious | showy | 17 | |
13839311612 | Poignant | emotionally moving | 18 | |
13839313370 | Ebullience | intense enthusiasm | 19 | |
13839316914 | Effusive | emotionally excessive; overly demonstrative | 20 | |
13839332951 | Egregious | outstandingly bad | 21 | |
13839335220 | Flagrant | extremely or deliberately shocking or noticeable | 22 | |
13839336642 | Frenetic | wildly excited or active | 23 | |
13839338216 | Gratuitous | freely given; not called for by circumstances, unwarranted | 24 | |
13839343474 | Superfluous | exceeding what is sufficient or required, excess | 25 | |
13839344639 | Auspicious | conducive to success; favorable | 26 | |
13839346570 | Benevolent | well meaning and kindly | 27 | |
13839349244 | Mollify | to calm or make less severe | 28 | |
13839350039 | Dubious | hesitating or doubting | 29 | |
13839350040 | Spurious | not genuine, not true, not valid | 30 | |
13839350850 | Astute | shrewd; clever | 31 | |
13839351974 | Stratagem | a clever trick used to deceive or outwit | 32 | |
13839354381 | Surreptitiously | done by secretive means | 33 | |
13839357814 | Ambiguous | open to more than one interpretation | 34 | |
13839358434 | Ambivalent | having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone | 35 | |
13839360435 | Arbitrary | based on one's wishes or whims without regard for reason or fairness | 36 | |
13839363577 | Capricious | impulsive and unpredictable | 37 | |
13839366745 | Tenuous | having little substance or strength | 38 | |
13839366746 | Assiduous | hard-working | 39 | |
13839367659 | Intrepid | courageous; fearless | 40 | |
13839367660 | Obdurate | stubborn; unyielding | 41 | |
13839368786 | Proliferate | to reproduce, increase, or spread rapidly | 42 | |
13839381388 | inherent | firmly established by nature or habit | 43 | |
13839382169 | Inverterate | firmly established, long-standing; habitual | 44 | |
13839385254 | Omnipotent | all-powerful | 45 | |
13839388609 | Amenable | responsive; agreeable | 46 | |
13839389541 | Facetious | playfully humorous | 47 | |
13839389542 | Dilettante | someone with an amateurish and superficial understanding of a field of knowledge | 48 | |
13839393140 | Propriety | appropriateness of behavior | 49 | |
13839395835 | Staid | unemotional; serious | 50 | |
13839396401 | Pejorative | Words or phrases that belittle or speak negative of someone | 51 | |
13839399069 | Brusque | rudely short, abrupt, dismissive | 52 | |
13839400033 | Caustic | bitingly sarcastic or witty | 53 | |
13839400704 | Fractious | quarrelsome; unruly; rebellious | 54 | |
13839401423 | Fastidious | possessing careful attention to detail; difficult to please | 55 | |
13839404290 | Incorrigible | unable to be reformed | 56 | |
13839405768 | Pugnacious | quarrelsome, fond of fighting | 57 | |
13839405782 | Deleterious | harmful | 58 | |
13839406523 | Transitory | short-lived or temporary | 59 | |
13839407790 | Affable | easy-going; friendly | 60 | |
13839409152 | Rancorous | hateful | 61 | |
13839409921 | Hackneyed | used so often as to lack freshness or originality | 62 | |
13839410741 | Austere | severe or strict in manner, attitude, or appearance | 63 | |
13839412831 | Malfeasance | misconduct or wrongdoing, especially by a public official | 64 | |
13839412832 | Prosaic | unimaginative; dull | 65 | |
13839415338 | Harbringer | something indicating the approach of what's to come | 66 | |
13839416504 | Timorous | fearful, timid | 67 | |
13839417396 | Nascent | coming into existence; emerging | 68 | |
13839418523 | Sonorous | producing a deep or full sound | 69 | |
13839419366 | Copious | abundant; plentiful | 70 | |
13839419367 | Permeated | spread or flowing throughout | 71 | |
13839420006 | Prodigious | enormous | 72 | |
13839420974 | Replete | abundantly supplied; filled to capacity | 73 | |
13839421957 | Laudatory | giving praise | 74 | |
13839421958 | Venerated | highly respected | 75 |
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