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| 4814148024 | Adjunct | A thing added to something else as a supplementary rather than an essential part; A word or phrase used to amplify or modify the meaning of another word or words in a sentence; Connected or added to something, typically in an auxiliary way; An associate or assistant of another; An adverb or adverbial phrase. | 0 | |
| 4814151451 | Bellwether | The leading sheep of a flock, with a bell on its neck; An indicator or predictor of something. | 1 | |
| 4814152995 | Caterwaul | Make a shrill howling or wailing noise; A shrill howling or wailing noise; To protest or complain noisily. | 2 | |
| 4814154669 | Chimerical | Existing only as the product of unchecked imagination; Fantastically visionary or improbable; Given to fantastic schemes. | 3 | |
| 4814154670 | Effete | Affected, overrefined, and ineffectual; No longer capable of effective action; Lacking strength, courage, or spirit; Resembling a woman; No longer fertile; Having lost character, vitality, or strength; Soft or delicate from or as if from a pampered existence. | 4 | |
| 4814156034 | Fait accompli | A thing that has already happened or been decided before those affected hear about it, leaving them with no option but to accept; Something that has been done and cannot be changed. | 5 | |
| 4814157624 | Hidebound | Unwilling or unable to change because of tradition or convention; Not willing to accept new or different ideas; Having a dry skin lacking in pliancy and adhering closely to the underlying flesh. | 6 | |
| 4814159474 | Hierarchy | A system or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above the other according to status or authority; The upper echelons of a hierarchical system; those in authority; An arrangement or classification of things according to relative importance or inclusiveness; A body of persons in authority; The classification of a group of people according to ability or to economic, social, or professional standing; A graded or ranked series; A division of angels; A ruling body of clergy organized into orders or ranks each subordinate to the one above it. | 7 | |
| 4814160527 | Laissez-faire | A policy or attitude of letting things take their own course, without interfering; Abstention by governments from interfering in the workings of the free market. | 8 | |
| 4814161733 | Liturgy | A form or formulary according to which public religious worship, especially Christian worship, is conducted; (in ancient Athens) A public office or duty performed voluntarily by a rich Athenian; A customary repertoire of ideas, phrases, or observances; A rite or body of rites prescribed for public worship. | 9 | |
| 4814161734 | Morass | An area of muddy or boggy ground; A complicated or confused situation; An overwhelming or confusing mass or mixture. | 10 | |
| 4814163008 | Noisome | Having an extremely offensive smell; Disagreeable; Unpleasant; Highly obnoxious or objectionable. | 11 | |
| 4814164072 | Oblivious | Forgetful; Without remembrance or memory; Not aware of or not concerned about what is happening around one. | 12 | |
| 4814164073 | Poltroon | A spiritless coward; | 13 | |
| 4814165732 | Proselyte | A new convert (as to a faith or cause). | 14 | |
| 4814166904 | Quasi | Having some resemblance usually by possession of certain attributes; Having a legal status only by operation or construction of law and without reference to intent; Being partly or almost; Seemingly; Apparently, but not really. | 15 | |
| 4814168298 | Raillery | Friendly joking about or with somebody; Good-natured ridicule. | 16 | |
| 4814169193 | Ribald | Referring to sexual matters in an amusingly rude or irreverent way.; Vulgar or indecent in speech, language, etc.; coarsely mocking, abusive, or irreverent; scurrilous. | 17 | |
| 4814169194 | Supine | (of a person) Lying face upward; Failing to act or protest as a result of moral weakness or indolence; A Latin verbal noun used only in the accusative and ablative cases, especially to denote purpose; Willing to be controlled by others. | 18 | |
| 4814171074 | Vignette | A small illustration or portrait photograph that fades into its background without a definite border; A brief evocative description, account, or episode; Portray (someone) in the style of a vignette; A short written description; A short scene in a movie or play; A picture or engraving in a book; A running ornament (as of vine leaves, tendrils, and grapes) put on or just before a title page or at the beginning or end of a chapter; A small decorative design or picture so placed; The pictorial part of a postage stamp design as distinguished from the frame and lettering; A short descriptive literary sketch. | 19 | |
| 4858870782 | Aegis | A shield or breastplate emblematic of majesty that was associated with Zeus and Athena; Protection; Controlling or conditioning influence; Auspices, sponsorship; Control or guidance especially by an individual, group, or system. | 20 | |
| 4858873599 | Apprise | To give information to. | 21 | |
| 4858873600 | Bibulous | Highly absorbent; Fond of alcoholic beverages; Of, relating to, or marked by the consumption of alcoholic beverages. | 22 | |
| 4858875286 | Claque | A group hired to applaud at a performance; A group of sycophants. | 23 | |
| 4858875287 | Deracinate | To remove or separate from a native environment or culture; especially : to remove the racial or ethnic characteristics or influences from. | 24 | |
| 4858876805 | Exegesis | An explanation or critical interpretation of a text. | 25 | |
| 4858876832 | Indigenous | Produced, growing, living, or occurring naturally in a particular region or environment. | 26 | |
| 4858878811 | Lachrymose | Given to tears or weeping; Tending to cause tears. | 27 | |
| 4858878812 | Lexicon | A book containing an alphabetical arrangement of the words in a language and their definitions; The vocabulary of a language, an individual speaker or group of speakers, or a subject; The total stock of morphemes in a language. | 28 | |
| 4858878813 | Melee | A confused struggle; especially : a hand-to-hand fight among several people | 29 | |
| 4858880573 | Microcosm | A little world; especially : the human race or human nature seen as an epitome of the world or the universe; A community or other unity that is an epitome of a larger unity. | 30 | |
| 4858880574 | Minuscule | A lowercase letter; One of several ancient and medieval writing styles developed from cursive and having simplified and small forms; A letter in this style; Extremely tiny. | 31 | |
| 4858882197 | Obfuscate | To make (something) more difficult to understand. | 32 | |
| 4858882198 | Paternalism | A system under which an authority undertakes to supply needs or regulate conduct of those under its control in matters affecting them as individuals as well as in their relations to authority and to each other; A policy or practice based on or characteristics of (word). | 33 | |
| 4858883329 | Polarize | To cause (people, opinions, etc.) to separate into opposing groups physics; To cause (something, such as light waves) to vibrate in a particular pattern physics; To cause (something) to have positive and negative charges; To give polarity to (something) to break up into opposing factions or groupings. | 34 | |
| 4858883330 | Purview | The body or enacting part of a statute; The limit, purpose, or scope of a statute; The range or limit of authority, competence, responsibility, concern, or intention; Range of vision, understanding, or cognizance. | 35 | |
| 4858885156 | Sanguine | Consisting of or relating to blood; Bloodthirsty; Of the complexion : ruddy; Having blood as the predominating bodily humor; also : having the bodily conformation and temperament held characteristic of such predominance and marked by sturdiness, high color, and cheerfulness. | 36 | |
| 4858885157 | Solecism | An ungrammatical combination of words in a sentence; also : a minor blunder in speech; Something deviating from the proper, normal, or accepted order; A breach of etiquette or decorum. | 37 | |
| 4858885158 | Vassal | A person under the protection of a feudal lord to whom he has vowed homage and fealty : a feudal tenant; One in a subservient or subordinate position. | 38 | |
| 4858887079 | Verisimilitude | The quality of seeming real. | 39 | |
| 4903037571 | Affinity | A feeling of closeness and understanding that someone has for another person because of their similar qualities, ideas, or interests; A liking for or an attraction to something; A quality that makes people or things suited to each other; relationship by marriage; Sympathy marked by community of interest : kinship; An attraction to or liking for something; An attractive force between substances or particles that causes them to enter into and remain in chemical combination; A person especially of the opposite sex having a particular attraction for one; Likeness based on relationship or causal connection; A relation between biological groups involving resemblance in structural plan and indicating a common origin. | 40 | |
| 4903037572 | Bilious | Having or causing a sick feeling in the stomach : feeling or causing nausea; Angry or bad-tempered; Very unpleasant to look at; Of or relating to bile; Marked by or suffering from liver dysfunction and especially excessive secretion of bile; Of or indicative of a peevish ill-natured disposition; Sickeningly unpleasant. | 41 | |
| 4903045681 | Cognate | Of the same or similar nature; Generically alike; Related by blood; Related on the mother's side; Related by descent from the same ancestral language; Of a word or morpheme : Related by derivation, borrowing, or descent; Of a substantive : Related to a verb usually by derivation and serving as its object to reinforce the meaning. | 42 | |
| 4903045682 | Corollary | A proposition inferred immediately from a proved proposition with little or no additional proof; Something that naturally follows; Something that incidentally or naturally accompanies or parallels. | 43 | |
| 4903048570 | Cul-de-sac | A street that is designed to connect to another street only at one end; A blind diverticulum or pouch; A street or passage closed at one end. | 44 | |
| 4903050363 | Derring-do | Brave acts; Behavior that requires courage. | 45 | |
| 4903052058 | Divination | The art or practice that seeks to foresee or foretell future events or discover hidden knowledge usually by the interpretation of omens or by the aid of supernatural powers; Unusual insight; Intuitive perception. | 46 | |
| 4903053969 | Elixir | A substance held capable of changing base metals into gold; A substance held capable of prolonging life indefinitely; Cure-all; A medicinal concoction; A sweetened liquid usually containing alcohol that is used in medication either for its medicinal ingredients or as a flavoring; The essential principle. | 47 | |
| 4903053970 | Folderol | Foolish language, behavior, or ideas; A useless ornament or accessory. | 48 | |
| 4903057022 | Gamut | A range or series of related things; The whole series of recognized musical notes; An entire range or series. | 49 | |
| 4903059383 | Hoi polloi | Ordinary people : people who are not rich, famous, etc. | 50 | |
| 4903061140 | Ineffable | Too great, powerful, beautiful, etc., to be described or expressed; Incapable of being expressed in words : indescribable; Unspeakable; Not to be uttered; Taboo. | 51 | |
| 4903061221 | Lucubration | Laborious or intensive study;The product of such study —usually used in plural. | 52 | |
| 4903063896 | Mnemonic | Assisting or intended to assist memory; Of or relating to memory. | 53 | |
| 4903066155 | Obloquy | Harsh or critical statements about someone; The condition of someone who lost the respect of other people; A strongly condemnatory utterance; Abusive language; The condition of one that is discredited; Bad repute. | 54 | |
| 4903066242 | Parameter | A rule or limit that controls what something is or how something should be done; An arbitrary constant whose value characterizes a member of a system (as a family of curves); A quantity (as a mean or variance) that describes a statistical population; An independent variable used to express the coordinates of a variable point and functions of them; Any of a set of physical properties whose values determine the characteristics or behavior of something; Something represented by a parameter; A characteristic element; Characteristic, element, factor; Limit, boundary —usually used in plural. | 55 | |
| 4903068538 | Pundit | A person who knows a lot about a particular subject and who expresses ideas and opinions about that subject publicly (such as by speaking on television and radio shows) ;A learned man; A person who gives opinions in an authoritative manner usually through the mass media. | 56 | |
| 4903068619 | Risible | Deserving to be laughed at; Very silly or unreasonable; Capable of laughing; Disposed to laugh; Arousing or provoking laughter; Associated with, relating to, or used in laughter. | 57 | |
| 4903071023 | Symptomatic | Showing that a particular disease is present; Relating to or showing (word) of a disease; Showing the existence of a particular problem; Having the characteristics of a particular disease but arising from another cause; Concerned with, affecting, or having (word); Characteristic, indicative. | 58 | |
| 4903075375 | Volte-face | A complete change of attitude or opinion; A reversal in policy. | 59 | |
| 4903079597 | Ancillary | Providing something additional to a main part or function; Subordinate, subsidiary; Auxiliary, supplementary. | 60 | |
| 4903082444 | Bowdlerize | To change (a book, play, movie, etc.) by removing parts that could offend people; To expurgate (as a book) by omitting or modifying parts considered vulgar; To modify by abridging, simplifying, or distorting in style or content. | 61 | |
| 4903085228 | Condescend | To show that you believe you are more intelligent or better than other people; To do something that you usually do not do because you believe you are too important to do it; To descend to a less formal or dignified level; Unbend; To waive the privileges of rank; To assume an air of superiority. | 62 | |
| 4903087176 | Cozen | To deceive, win over, or induce to do something by artful coaxing and wheedling or shrewd trickery; To gain by (word) someone. | 63 | |
| 4903087177 | Enclave | An area with people who are different in some way from the people in the areas around it; A distinct territorial, cultural, or social unit enclosed within or as if within foreign territory. | 64 | |
| 4903090118 | Forte | The part of a sword or foil blade that is between the middle and the hilt and that is the strongest part of the blade; One's strong point. | 65 | |
| 4903095067 | Gratis | Used to indicate that no money is paid for something; Without charge or recompense. | 66 | |
| 4903096850 | Icon | A small picture on a computer screen that represents a program or function; A person who is very successful and admired; A widely known symbol; A usually pictorial representation; A conventional religious image typically painted on a small wooden panel and used in the devotions of Eastern Christians; An object of uncritical devotion; Emblem; A sign (as a word or graphic symbol) whose form suggests its meaning: A graphic symbol on a computer display screen that represents an object (as a file) or function (as the command to delete). | 67 | |
| 4903096851 | Interstice | A small space that lies between things; A small break or gap in something; A space that intervenes between things; especially; One between closely spaced things; A gap or break in something generally continuous; A short space of time between events. | 68 | |
| 4903099753 | Macrocosm | A large system (such as the entire universe) that contains many smaller systems; The great world : universe; A complex that is a large-scale reproduction of one of its constituents. | 69 | |
| 4903103197 | Mountebank | A dishonest person; A person who tricks and cheats other people; A person who sells quack medicines from a platform; A boastful unscrupulous pretender. | 70 | |
| 4903104731 | Paean | A song of joy, praise, or victory; A joyous song or hymn of praise, tribute, thanksgiving, or triumph; A work that praises or honors its subject; Encomium, tribute. | 71 | |
| 4903104732 | Persiflage | Frivolous bantering talk; Light raillery | 72 | |
| 4903108047 | Plethora | A very large amount or number; An amount that is much greater than what is necessary; A bodily condition characterized by an excess of blood and marked by turgescence and a florid complexion. | 73 | |
| 4903108048 | Pragmatic | Dealing with the problems that exist in a specific situation in a reasonable and logical way instead of depending on ideas and theories; Relating to matters of fact or practical affairs often to the exclusion of intellectual or artistic matters; Practical as opposed to idealistic; Relating to or being in accordance with philosophical (word). | 74 | |
| 4903109862 | Quizzical | Showing that you do not understand something or that you find something strange or amusing; Comically quaint; Mildly teasing or mocking; Expressive of puzzlement, curiosity, or disbelief. | 75 | |
| 4903125140 | Rapacity | always wanting more money, possessions, etc; Wanting more than is needed or deserved; Excessively grasping or covetous; Living on prey; Ravenous. | 76 | |
| 4903128595 | Schism | A division among the members of a group that occurs because they disagree on something; Formal division in or separation from a church or religious body; The offense of promoting (word). | 77 | |
| 4903131156 | Therapeutic | Producing good effects on your body or mind; Of or relating to the treatment of illness; Of or relating to the treatment of disease or disorders by remedial agents or methods; Providing or assisting in a cure; Curative, medicinal. | 78 | |
| 4903132713 | Virtuoso | A person who does something in a very skillful way; especially; A very skillful musician; An experimenter or investigator especially in the arts and sciences; Savant; One skilled in or having a taste for the fine arts; One who excels in the technique of an art; especially; A highly skilled musical performer (as on the violin); A person who has great skill at some endeavor. | 79 |
