13491649597 | penitent | (adj.) regretful for one's sins or mistakes. (n.) one who is sorry for wrongdoing | 0 | |
13491649598 | stymie | to block; to thwart | 1 | |
13491649599 | sumptuous | costly, rich, magnificent | 2 | |
13491649600 | symbiotic | mutually beneficial; supporting one another's life | 3 | |
13491649601 | taciturn | (adj.) habitually silent or quiet, inclined to talk very little | 4 | |
13491649602 | truculence | aggressiveness, ferocity | 5 | |
13491649603 | venerable | respected because of age | 6 | |
13491649604 | poignant | (adj.) deeply affecting, touching; keen or sharp in taste or smell | 7 | |
13491649605 | zealous | enthusiastic | 8 | |
13491649606 | abhorrent | Very repugnant; hateful. | 9 | |
13491649607 | ebullient | enthusiastic | 10 | |
13491649608 | reticent | not revealing one's thoughts or feelings readily | 11 | |
13491649609 | didactic | instructive | 12 | |
13491649610 | haughty | arrogant | 13 | |
13491649611 | ardent | very enthusiastic, impassioned | 14 | |
13491649612 | blithe | cheerful, lighthearted; casual, unconcerned | 15 | |
13491649613 | boorish | ill-mannered | 16 | |
13491649614 | choleric | easily angered | 17 | |
13491649615 | effusive | emotionally excessive; overly demonstrative | 18 | |
13491649616 | elegiac | Expressing sorrow or lamentation | 19 | |
13491649617 | Exculpatory | clearing of guilt or blame | 20 | |
13491649618 | Foppish | vain about dress and appearance; N. fop: man who takes too much interest in his clothes and appearance | 21 | |
13491649619 | Jocund | cheerful and lighthearted | 22 | |
13491649620 | Mirth | gladness and merriment usually accompanied by laughter | 23 | |
13491649621 | nonplussed | perplexed | 24 | |
13491649622 | Terse | brief and to the point | 25 | |
13491649623 | Dogmatic | arrogant and stubborn about one's beliefs | 26 | |
13491649624 | Churlish | (adj.) lacking politeness or good manners; lacking sensitivity; difficult to work with or deal with; rude | 27 | |
13491649625 | Macaronic | composed of a mixture of languages | 28 | |
13491649626 | Bemused | confused; bewildered | 29 | |
13491649627 | Cynical | doubtful or distrustful of the goodness or sincerity of human motives | 30 | |
13491649628 | Melodramatic | overly emotional | 31 | |
13491649629 | Ambivalence | the state of having contradictory or conflicting emotional attitudes | 32 | |
13491649630 | Veritable | (adj.) actual, true, real | 33 | |
13491649631 | Solemnity | seriousness | 34 | |
13491649632 | circumlocution | talking in circles | 35 | |
13491649633 | capricious | subject to whims or passing fancies | 36 | |
13491649634 | conciliatory | intended or likely to placate or pacify | 37 | |
13491649635 | strident | loud and harsh | 38 | |
13491649636 | pedantic | tending to show off one's learning | 39 | |
13491649637 | pretentious | pompous, self-important | 40 | |
13491649638 | inexorable | impossible to stop or prevent | 41 | |
13491649639 | impotunate | Extremely demanding; insistent | 42 | |
13491649640 | aloof | not friendly or forthcoming; cool and distant | 43 | |
13491649641 | acerbic | bitter, sharp in taste or temper | 44 | |
13491649642 | abject | Lowly, miserable and wretched | 45 | |
13491649643 | affable | (adj.) courteous and pleasant, sociable, easy to speak to | 46 | |
13491649644 | antediluvian | extremely old; antiquated | 47 | |
13491649645 | apathy | a lack of feeling, emotion, or interest | 48 | |
13491649646 | banal | common, ordinary | 49 | |
13491649647 | timorous | Fearful, timid | 50 | |
13491649648 | bucolic | (adj.) characteristic of the countryside, rural; relating to shepherds and cowherds, pastoral | 51 | |
13491649649 | burgeoning | begin to grow or increase rapidly; flourish | 52 | |
13491649650 | callous | emotionally hardened, unfeeling | 53 | |
13491649651 | chagrin | embarrassment; a complete loss of courage | 54 | |
13491649652 | chicanery | trickery; deception | 55 | |
13491649653 | coalesce | to come together | 56 | |
13491649654 | congenial | (adj.) getting on well with others; agreeable, pleasant | 57 | |
13491649655 | credence | belief, mental acceptance | 58 | |
13491649656 | derelict | abandoned, run-down | 59 | |
13491649657 | disingenuous | not straightforward; crafty | 60 | |
13491649658 | dubious | hesitating or doubting | 61 | |
13491649659 | eloquent | persuasive and moving, especially in speech | 62 | |
13491649660 | enigmatic | (adj.) puzzling, perplexing, inexplicable, not easily understood | 63 | |
13491649661 | ephemeral | lasting a very short time | 64 | |
13491649662 | euphony | pleasant, harmonious sound | 65 | |
13491649663 | foible | (n.) a weak point, failing, minor flaw | 66 | |
13491649664 | furtive | secret, stealthy | 67 | |
13491649665 | germane | (adj.) relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting | 68 | |
13491649666 | glib | (adj.) ready and fluent in speech; thoughtless, insincere | 69 | |
13491649667 | discursive | (adj.) passing aimlessly from one place or subject to another, rambling, roving, nomadic | 70 | |
13491649668 | incorrigible | not able to be corrected; beyond control | 71 | |
13491649669 | impudent | not showing due respect for another person; impertinent | 72 | |
13491649670 | irascible | easily angered, irritable | 73 | |
13491649671 | jocular | humorous, jesting, jolly, joking | 74 | |
13491649672 | obdurate | stubbornly refusing to change one's opinion or course of action | 75 | |
13491649673 | languid | (adj.) drooping; without energy, sluggish | 76 | |
13491649674 | lax | careless or negligent | 77 | |
13491649675 | lugubrious | looking or sounding sad and dismal | 78 | |
13491649676 | magnanimous | generous in forgiving, above small meanness | 79 | |
13491649677 | maladroit | clumsy; unskillful | 80 | |
13491649678 | mellifluous | sweetly flowing | 81 | |
13491649679 | mercurial | quick, shrewd, and unpredictable | 82 | |
13491649680 | Mundane | ordinary | 83 | |
13491649681 | Nefarious | (adj.) wicked, depraved, devoid of moral standards | 84 | |
13491649682 | obtuse | lacking sharpness of intellect; not clear or precise in thought or expression | 85 | |
13491649683 | negligible | so unimportant that it can be disregarded | 86 | |
13491649684 | onerous | burdensome | 87 | |
13491649685 | panacea | a remedy for all ills; cure-all; an answer to all problems | 88 | |
13491649686 | perfunctory | done without care; in a routine fashion | 89 | |
13491649687 | sagacious | wise | 90 | |
13491649688 | Placate | to appease, soothe, pacify | 91 | |
13491649689 | probity | honesty | 92 | |
13491649690 | puerile | childish | 93 | |
13491649691 | Quagmire | a difficult situation | 94 | |
13491649692 | quixotic | overly idealistic; impractical | 95 | |
13491649693 | recalcitrant | stubbornly disobedient, resisting authority | 96 | |
13491649694 | Ribaldry | vulgar or indecent language | 97 | |
13491649695 | sardonic | grimly or scornfully mocking, bitterly sarcastic | 98 | |
13491649696 | circumspect | careful, cautious | 99 |
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