14381686878 | affluent | having a great deal of money; wealthy | 0 | |
14381689822 | elicit | envoke or draw out (a response, answer, or fact) from someone in reaction to one's own actions or questions | 1 | |
14381701869 | solace | comfort or consolation in a time of distress or sadness | 2 | |
14381701870 | retrospect | a survey or review of past times or events | 3 | |
14381703384 | cursory | hasty and therefore not thorough or detailed | 4 | |
14381703385 | skittish | extremely nervous and easily frightened; shy or timid; extremely cautious; unstable, undependable | 5 | |
14381703855 | congenial | pleasant because of a personality, qualities, or interests that are similar to one's own | 6 | |
14417988226 | supplant | to take the place of | 7 | |
14417989238 | garish | tastelessly gaudy | 8 | |
14417993170 | futility | uselessness | 9 | |
14417995571 | pretext | a false reason, deceptive excuse | 10 | |
14417996316 | incessant | never stopping, going on all the time | 11 | |
14418001166 | undulate | to move in waves or with a wavelike motion | 12 | |
14418002173 | indelible | cannot be removed, washed away or erased | 13 | |
14418003163 | petulant | peevish, annoyed by trifles, easily irritated and upset | 14 | |
14418005295 | languid | lacking energy; weak | 15 | |
14456668677 | plausible | can be believed; reasonable | 16 | |
14456669241 | inherent | firmly established by nature or habit | 17 | |
14456669701 | constitute | to make up the parts of; to compose | 18 | |
14456669983 | conciliatory | appeasing; soothing; showing willingness to reconcile | 19 | |
14456671520 | baffle | bewilder; perplex; fill with confusion; puzzle; frustrate | 20 | |
14456671860 | aspire | seek to attain; long for | 21 | |
14456672147 | proprietary | of or relating to an owner or ownership | 22 | |
14456672148 | frankness | the act of speaking plainly and truthfully regardless of others' opinions | 23 | |
14456672611 | niche | full range of physical and biological conditions in which an organism lives and the way in which the organism uses those conditions | 24 | |
14456673193 | sporadic | occurring irregularly | 25 | |
14456673746 | bohemian | unconventional; not bound by the rules of society | 26 | |
14456673747 | qualm | a feeling of uneasiness | 27 | |
14456673748 | deduce | to draw a conclusion from given facts | 28 | |
14456674337 | boon | a gift or blessing | 29 | |
14456674338 | dissipate | disperse or scatter | 30 | |
14456675015 | novice | a beginner; one who is inexperienced | 31 | |
14456675016 | intrinsic | belonging to a thing by its very nature | 32 | |
14456676581 | contingency | a future event or circumstance that is possible but cannot be predicted with certainty | 33 | |
14456677011 | commodity | a raw material or primary agricultural product that can be bought and sold, such as copper or coffee. | 34 | |
14456677474 | amorphous | shapeless, formless, vague | 35 | |
14456677915 | transience | forgetting what occurs with the passage of time | 36 | |
14456678766 | rectitude | moral uprightness; righteousness | 37 | |
14456679888 | stupendous | extremely impressive | 38 | |
14456679889 | meticulously | very carefully and precisely | 39 | |
14456680495 | cavalier | given to haughty disregard of others | 40 | |
14456681205 | swath | a broad strip or area of something | 41 | |
14456681206 | ramble | to talk on and on pointlessly, without clear direction | 42 | |
14456681680 | monogramy | marriage with one mate at a time | 43 | |
14456682553 | chauvinism | unreasoning and boastful devotion to one's country or sex | 44 | |
14456683288 | venerable | respected because of age | 45 | |
14456683289 | maxim | a general truth or rule of conduct; a short saying | 46 | |
14456684524 | progenitor | a direct ancestor | 47 | |
14456684930 | importune | to ask persistently; to beg | 48 | |
14456685783 | rudiments | the parts of any subject or discipline that are learned first; the earliest stages of anything | 49 | |
14456685784 | discourse | written or spoken communication or debate | 50 | |
14456686151 | deference | to respect | 51 | |
14456686711 | digress | to stray from the main subject | 52 | |
14456687039 | prudent | acting with or showing care and thought for the future | 53 | |
14456687040 | brevity | briefness; short duration | 54 | |
14456687725 | expedient | a means to an end | 55 |
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