5890560556 | ignominious | (adj.) humiliating, disgracing | 0 | |
5890562727 | vehement | (adj.) intense; forceful; powerful; passionate | 1 | |
7222354743 | sardonic | (adj.) grimly or scornfully mocking, bitterly sarcastic; cynical | 2 | |
7222354744 | lugubrious | (adj.) mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree | 3 | |
7222354745 | taciturn | (adj.) habitually silent or quiet, inclined to talk very little | 4 | |
7222354746 | captious | (adj.) excessively ready to find fault; nit-picking; difficult to please | 5 | |
7222354747 | fetid | (adj.) foul-smelling; putrid | 6 | |
7222354748 | lurid | (adj.) gruesome or excessively vivid; sensational, shocking, unrestrained | 7 | |
7222354749 | arrogate | (trans. v.) to claim or take without right | 8 | |
7222354750 | soporific | (adj. or n.) sleep-inducing; relating to sleepiness or lethargy | 9 | |
7222354751 | ameliorate | (v.) to improve, make better, correct a flaw or shortcoming | 10 | |
7222354752 | expiate | (trans. v.) to atone, to make amends for | 11 | |
7222354753 | penurious | (adj.) 1. miserly, stingy 2. extremely poor, destitute | 12 | |
7222354754 | perfidious | (adj.) disloyal; treacherous; faithless; deceitful | 13 | |
7222354755 | fervid | (adj.) burning with enthusiasm or zeal; extremely heated | 14 | |
7222354756 | turbid | (adj.) muddy; unclear; confused; disordered | 15 | |
7222354757 | indignant | (adj.) filled with resentment or anger over something unjust, unworthy, or mean | 16 | |
7222354758 | officious | (adj.) meddling; excessively forward in offering services or assuming authority | 17 | |
7222354759 | equivocal | (adj.) ambiguous; intentionally misleading | 18 | |
7222354760 | assiduous | (adj.) persistent; constant; attentive; diligent | 19 | |
7222354761 | inscrutable | (adj.) incapable of being understood; impenetrable; impossible to see through physically | 20 | |
7222354762 | insuperable | (adj.) incapable of being overcome | 21 | |
7222354763 | vapid | (adj.) dull, uninteresting; lacking in sharpness, flavor, liveliness, or force | 22 | |
7222354764 | insipid | (adj.) dull; boring; bland | 23 | |
7222354765 | provincial | (adj.) limited in knowledge of the world; lacking sophistication; narrow-minded | 24 | |
7222354766 | impetuous | (adj.) rash, impulsive | 25 | |
7222354767 | imperious | (adj.) overbearing, arrogant; seeking to dominate; compelling | 26 | |
7222354768 | precocious | (adj.) showing unusually early development (especially in talents and mental capacity) | 27 | |
7222354769 | capricious | (adj.) impulsive; unpredictable; erratic | 28 | |
7222354770 | diffident | (adj.) shy, lacking self-confidence; modest, reserved | 29 | |
7222354771 | meretricious | (adj.) attractive in a vulgar or flashy way, specious; deceptive | 30 | |
7222354772 | propitious | (adj.) favorable | 31 | |
7222354773 | indefatigable | (adj.) tireless; incapable of being fatigued | 32 | |
7222354774 | ostensible | (adj.) apparent; represented as true; possibly or seemingly true on the surface | 33 | |
7222354775 | salubrious | (adj.) healthful, promoting health | 34 | |
7222354776 | credulous | (adj.) too trusting; gullible | 35 | |
7222354777 | pedantic | (adj.) pompous; self-important; making a show of knowledge; giving too much importance to rules | 36 | |
7222354778 | incendiary | (adj.) inflaming; provoking heat or anger | 37 | |
7222354779 | genial | (adj.) cordial, pleasantly cheerful or warm | 38 | |
7222354780 | disconsolate | (adj.) deeply unhappy or dejected; without hope, beyond consolation | 39 |
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