7278108025 | proscribe | to prohibit or put outside the law | 0 | |
7278111167 | debauch profligacy | engage in wild and corruptive living, immorality | 1 | |
7278118045 | licentious prurient salacious | immoral lewd, corruptive | 2 | |
7278128351 | demagogue | political leader who seeks support by appearing to popular desires rather than by using rational argument | 3 | |
7278141585 | umbrage | offense | 4 | |
7278143180 | travail | suffering and hardship | 5 | |
7278144838 | veracity veracious | truth | 6 | |
7278148345 | voracious rapacious rapacity | greedy, grasping | 7 | |
7278155118 | encomium | great praise | 8 | |
7278155119 | banal | ordinary, dull; prosaic | 9 | |
7278161244 | dereliction derelict | failure to perform an official duty or responsibility | 10 | |
7278163620 | travesty | a force | 11 | |
7278165572 | anathema | anything forbidden socially | 12 | |
7278169590 | perfidy perfidious treachery treacherous | treason or double dealing | 13 | |
7278179148 | ignominy ignominious | disgraceful | 14 | |
7278180489 | pyrrhic | some win or victory accomplished as too great a cost | 15 | |
7278183320 | surfeit | an excess or overabundance | 16 | |
7278187964 | dour | gloomy, solemn | 17 | |
7278189449 | slothful | lazy, indolent | 18 | |
7278191411 | pithy terse laconic | brief to the point | 19 | |
7278195749 | orotund bloviating bombastic | wordy, pompous | 20 | |
7278208364 | pejorative | full of ones self | 21 | |
7278208367 | nemesis | one that inflicts retribution or vengeance | 22 | |
7278215255 | acquisitive | greedy or materialistic | 23 | |
7278217528 | pariah | an outcast (from Hindu caste system) | 24 | |
7278219971 | paradigm | a model or pattern | 25 | |
7278221826 | ebullient ebullience | buoyant, bubbly, enthusiastic | 26 | |
7278224670 | culpable | guilt | 27 | |
7278226314 | exculpate | free of blame | 28 | |
7278268456 | recondite esoteric abstruse obscure | little known, highly specialized, known to a few | 29 | |
7278272238 | peremptory | final, irrevocable | 30 | |
7278274314 | countermand | to go against | 31 | |
7278276895 | pertinacious | from tenacious, persistent | 32 | |
7278278980 | lambent | softly radiant | 33 | |
7278280576 | peccadillo | minor faults | 34 | |
7278280577 | cupidity | inordinate desire for wealth | 35 | |
7278293723 | tawdry meretricious | cheap and common | 36 | |
7278293724 | internecine | deadly for everyone involved | 37 | |
7278296436 | imbroglio | confused mess | 38 | |
7278297527 | impetus | a push | 39 | |
7278300709 | perspicacious | of acute mental vision or discernment | 40 | |
7278304318 | confluence | flowing together | 41 | |
7278306019 | effluence | flowing out of | 42 | |
7278307484 | simplistic | TOO simple | 43 | |
7278310699 | convoluted | complicated | 44 | |
7278315019 | ablutions | literally a religious word meaning purified with water; shaving, shower | 45 | |
7278324866 | abstemious | comes from abstain | 46 | |
7278326883 | amulet talisman | lucky | 47 | |
7278331513 | mitigate alleviate | to lessen to make "softer" | 48 | |
7278347978 | analogous | from analogy | 49 | |
7278351798 | apparition specter wraith | ghost | 50 | |
7278355654 | artifice ruse machination stratagem ploy gambit | clever trick | 51 | |
7278355655 | atrophy degeneration attenuate | weaken, wasting away | 52 | |
7278402053 | guile | cunning | 53 | |
7278402054 | beguile | to charm someone | 54 | |
7278403634 | bereft | grieving because of loss | 55 | |
7278405045 | flaccid | limp or flabby | 56 | |
7278410070 | premonition presentiment prescience misgiving | previous notice or warning | 57 | |
7278439047 | gourmandize gourmet gourmand | 1. to eat voraciously 2. connoisseur 3. slob | 58 | |
7278445753 | ubiquitous | occurring everywhere | 59 | |
7278447550 | admonish | give friendly, earnest advice or encouragement exhort; importune | 60 | |
7278454833 | caveat | a warning | 61 | |
7278454834 | derogate denigrate disparge malign | to blacken or defame someone | 62 | |
7278460289 | traduce pillory | to publicly ridicule someone | 63 | |
7278461674 | cosseted cosset | to pamper someone or treat him as a pet | 64 | |
7278466208 | acquiesced capitulated acceded | to give into | 65 | |
7278483228 | beleaguered | troubled, harassed, besieged | 66 | |
7278485952 | machiavellian | ruthless and scheming, usually political | 67 | |
7278491356 | draconian | unduly harsh | 68 | |
7278494471 | extirpate eradicate annihilate | to wipe out | 69 | |
7278500144 | attrition | failure rate | 70 | |
7278497971 | decimate | partially eradicate | 71 | |
7278502493 | tangential peripheral | around the outside or something; not relevant to issue at hand | 72 | |
7278508834 | germane | relevant | 73 | |
7278514343 | exacerbate | to make worse or worsen | 74 | |
7278518053 | abrogate terminate | to end | 75 | |
7278518054 | truncate | to reduce in size by cutting off | 76 | |
7278522326 | synergy synergistic | happy cooperation | 77 | |
7278536626 | ersatz | an inferior or unconventional substitute | 78 | |
7278564350 | inexorable ineluctable | inevitable or bound to happen | 79 | |
7278566159 | desultory | wandering; aimless | 80 | |
7278568295 | quotidian | everyday events | 81 | |
7278571245 | sanctimonious | too "holier than thou"; used when person is being negative | 82 | |
7278573190 | sanctimony | the act of acting sanctimonious | 83 | |
7278581927 | pontificate | preachy | 84 | |
7278585349 | inure | to become accustomed to | 85 | |
7278585350 | parse | read carefully | 86 | |
7278587106 | peruse | skim quickly | 87 | |
7360255526 | gourmandize | to eat voraciously | 88 | |
7360256751 | gourmet | a connoisseur | 89 | |
7360257348 | gourmand | slob | 90 |
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