7473105620 | Babbitt | A self-satisfied person concerned chiefly with business and middle-class ideals like material success; a member of the American working class whose unthinking attachment to its business and social ideal is such to make him a model of narrow-mindedness and self-satisfaction (Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis) | 0 | |
7473114311 | Brobdingnagian | gigantic, enormous, enlarged (Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift) | 1 | |
7473116928 | Bumble | to speak or behave clumsily or faltering, to make humming or droning sound | 2 | |
7473119293 | Cinderella | one who gains affluence or recognition after obscurity and neglect; rags to riches | 3 | |
7473123262 | Don Juan | a libertine, profligate, a man obsessed with seducing women | 4 | |
7473126073 | Don Quixote | someone overly idealistic to the point of having impossible dreams (Man of La Mancha by Miguel Cervantes) | 5 | |
7473131350 | Panglossian | blindly or misleadingly optimistic (Candide by Voltaire) | 6 | |
7473134593 | Falstaffian | full of wit and bawdy humor | 7 | |
7473136413 | Frankenstein | anything that threatens or destroys its creator (Frankenstein by Mary Shelley) | 8 | |
7473141607 | Friday | faithful and willing attendant, ready to turn his hand to anything (Robinson Crusoe) | 9 | |
7473139527 | Galahad | A pure and noble man with limited ambition (King Arthur) | 10 | |
7473146893 | Jekyll and Hyde | capricious person with two sides to their personality (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde) | 11 | |
7473150297 | Lilliputian | descriptive of a very small person or something diminutive (Gulliver's Travel in Jonathan Swift) | 12 | |
7473154421 | Little Lord Fauntleroy | refers to certain type of children's clothing or to a beautiful but pampered and effeminate small boy (Little Lord Fauntlefoy byFrances H Burnett) | 13 | |
7473180971 | Lothario | a man whose chief interest is seducing a woman (The Fair Penitent by Nicholas Rowe) | 14 | |
7473183260 | Malapropism | unintentional humorous misuse or distortion of word or phrase (The Rivals by R.B. Sheridan | 15 | |
7473186615 | Milquetoast | a timid, weak, or unassertive person (Casper Milquetoast by H.T. Webster) | 16 | |
7473189025 | Pickwickian | humorous (Pickwickian Papers by Charles Dickens) | 17 | |
7473191797 | Pollyanna | person characterized by impermissible optimism (Pollyanna by Eleanor Porter) | 18 | |
7473196115 | Pooh-bah | pompous, ostentatious official (The Mikado by Gilbert and Sullivan) | 19 | |
7473198257 | Quixotic | having foolish and impractical ideas of honor (Don Quixote) | 20 | |
7473201209 | Robot | a machine that looks like a human being and performs various acts of a human being but does not have human emotions (Universal Robots by Karel Capek) | 21 | |
7473206953 | Rodomontade | bluster and boasting (Orlando Inamorato by Bojardo) | 22 | |
7473209517 | Scrooge | a bitter and/or greedy person (Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens) | 23 | |
7473211899 | Simon Legree | a harsh, cruel, or demanding person in authority (Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe) | 24 | |
7473214748 | Svengali | person with irresistible hypnotic power (by George Mauriers) | 25 | |
7473218747 | Tartuffe | hypocrite or someone who is hypocritical (by Moliere) | 26 | |
7473229402 | Uncle Tom | someone thought to have the timid service attitude like that of a slave to his owner (Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe) | 27 | |
7473235798 | Uriah Heep | fawning toadie, obsequious person (David Copperfield by Charles Dickens) | 28 | |
7473239132 | Walter Mitty | a commonplace non-adventuresome person who seeks escape from reality through daydreaming (by James Thurber) | 29 | |
7473242917 | Yahoo | a boorish, crass, or stupid person (Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift) | 30 |
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