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7473105620BabbittA 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
7473114311Brobdingnagiangigantic, enormous, enlarged (Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift)1
7473116928Bumbleto speak or behave clumsily or faltering, to make humming or droning sound2
7473119293Cinderellaone who gains affluence or recognition after obscurity and neglect; rags to riches3
7473123262Don Juana libertine, profligate, a man obsessed with seducing women4
7473126073Don Quixotesomeone overly idealistic to the point of having impossible dreams (Man of La Mancha by Miguel Cervantes)5
7473131350Panglossianblindly or misleadingly optimistic (Candide by Voltaire)6
7473134593Falstaffianfull of wit and bawdy humor7
7473136413Frankensteinanything that threatens or destroys its creator (Frankenstein by Mary Shelley)8
7473141607Fridayfaithful and willing attendant, ready to turn his hand to anything (Robinson Crusoe)9
7473139527GalahadA pure and noble man with limited ambition (King Arthur)10
7473146893Jekyll and Hydecapricious person with two sides to their personality (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)11
7473150297Lilliputiandescriptive of a very small person or something diminutive (Gulliver's Travel in Jonathan Swift)12
7473154421Little Lord Fauntleroyrefers to certain type of children's clothing or to a beautiful but pampered and effeminate small boy (Little Lord Fauntlefoy byFrances H Burnett)13
7473180971Lotharioa man whose chief interest is seducing a woman (The Fair Penitent by Nicholas Rowe)14
7473183260Malapropismunintentional humorous misuse or distortion of word or phrase (The Rivals by R.B. Sheridan15
7473186615Milquetoasta timid, weak, or unassertive person (Casper Milquetoast by H.T. Webster)16
7473189025Pickwickianhumorous (Pickwickian Papers by Charles Dickens)17
7473191797Pollyannaperson characterized by impermissible optimism (Pollyanna by Eleanor Porter)18
7473196115Pooh-bahpompous, ostentatious official (The Mikado by Gilbert and Sullivan)19
7473198257Quixotichaving foolish and impractical ideas of honor (Don Quixote)20
7473201209Robota 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
7473206953Rodomontadebluster and boasting (Orlando Inamorato by Bojardo)22
7473209517Scroogea bitter and/or greedy person (Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens)23
7473211899Simon Legreea harsh, cruel, or demanding person in authority (Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe)24
7473214748Svengaliperson with irresistible hypnotic power (by George Mauriers)25
7473218747Tartuffehypocrite or someone who is hypocritical (by Moliere)26
7473229402Uncle Tomsomeone thought to have the timid service attitude like that of a slave to his owner (Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe)27
7473235798Uriah Heepfawning toadie, obsequious person (David Copperfield by Charles Dickens)28
7473239132Walter Mittya commonplace non-adventuresome person who seeks escape from reality through daydreaming (by James Thurber)29
7473242917Yahooa boorish, crass, or stupid person (Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift)30

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