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271470006 | acrimonious (adj) | bitter and sharp in language or tone | |
271470007 | allay (v) | to put fear doubt anger to rest | |
288982741 | amalgamate (v) | to combine into a unified or integrated whole | |
288982742 | ardent (adj) | intensely devoted, eager, or enthusiastic | |
288982743 | astute (adj) | clever, cunning; showing practical wisdom | |
288982744 | belabor (v) | to explain or worry about something more than necessary | |
288982745 | bemoan (v) | to express distress or grief over | |
288982746 | callous (adj) | insensitive, indifferent; unsympathetic | |
288982747 | censure (v) | to criticize harshly | |
288982748 | cognizant (adj) | having awareness | |
288982749 | contentious (adj) | exhibiting a wearisome tendency to fight or be aggressive | |
288982750 | conundrum (n) | a complex and difficult problem | |
288982751 | deride (v) | to laugh at in scorn or contempt | |
288982752 | diatribe (n) | a bitter sharp abusive denunciation, attack, or criticism | |
288982753 | digress (v) | to turn away from the main subject of attention | |
288982754 | discordant (adj) | conflicting | |
288982755 | disseminate (v) | to scatter widely | |
288982756 | duplicitous (adj) | deliberately deceptive in behavior or speech | |
288982757 | ebullient (adj) | joyously unrrestrained; exuberant | |
288982758 | egregious (adj) | blatantly bad or reprehensible | |
288982759 | emulate (v) | to imitate | |
288982760 | equivocate (v) | to mislead by using ambiguous language | |
288982761 | exacerbate (v) | to make worse; to aggravate | |
288982762 | expedient (adj) | serving to promote one's selfish interest | |
288982763 | fastidious (adj) | difficult to please | |
288982764 | flippant (adj) | showing inappropriate casualness | |
288982765 | foible (n) | a personal weakness or failing | |
288982766 | germane (adj) | relevant, appropriate | |
288982767 | histrionic (adj) | deliberately overly dramatic | |
288982768 | inadvertent (adj) | unintentional | |
288982769 | incendiary (adj) | tending to provoke | |
288982770 | incongruous (adj) | incompatible | |
288982771 | indignant (adj) | angered at something unjust or wrong | |
288982772 | insipid (adj) | very dull | |
288982773 | insolent (adj) | blatantly rude or disrespectful | |
288982774 | languish (v) | to exist or continue in miserable or disheartening conditions | |
288982775 | mercurial (adj) | quick and changeable in temperament | |
288982776 | nebulous (adj) | vague | |
288982777 | obdurate (adj) | unmoved by persuasion, pity or tender feelings | |
288982778 | ostentatious (adj) | intending to attract notice and impress others | |
288982779 | pejorative (adj) | belittling | |
288982780 | poignant (adj) | profoundly moving and touching | |
288982781 | preposterous (adj) | contrary to nature, reason, or common sense | |
288982782 | prolific (adj) | intellectually productive | |
288982783 | propensity (n) | a natural inclination or tendency | |
288982784 | propound (v) | to put forward for consideration | |
288982785 | prudent (adj) | using good judgment or common sense | |
288982786 | rancorous (adj) | bitter, hateful | |
288982787 | repudiate (v) | to reject emphatically as unfounded, untrue or unjust | |
288982788 | sanctimonious (adj) | making a hypocritical show of religious devotion, piety, righteousness | |
288982789 | sardonic (adj) | cynically mocking | |
288982790 | scathing (adj) | criticizing or denouncing severely | |
288982791 | sordid (adj) | depressingly squalid; wretched | |
288982792 | surmise (v) | to infer; to guess | |
288982793 | tactful (adj) | skillful in acting to avoid offense to others | |
288982794 | tawdry (adj) | of little value, gaudy | |
288982795 | ubiquitous (adj) | seeming to exist everywhere at the same time | |
288982796 | umbrage (n) | offense; resentment | |
288982797 | verbiage (n) | an excess of words for the purpose; wordiness | |
288982798 | vituperate (V) | to rebuke or criticize harshly or abusively |