3479974792 | Austere | Severe or strict in manner, attitude or appearance | 0 | |
3479978468 | Corpulent | Fat | 1 | |
3479980614 | Derisive | Expressing contempt or ridicule | 2 | |
3479982423 | Effeminate | Having or showing characteristics regarded as typical of a woman unmanly | 3 | |
3479986162 | Jocund | Cheerful and lighthearted | 4 | |
3479988833 | Manifest | Clear of obvious to the eye or mind | 5 | |
3479991104 | Ostentatious | Characterized by vuglar or pretentious display; designed to impress or attract notice | 6 | |
3479995158 | Sanguine | Optimistic or positive, especially in an apparently bad or difficult situation | 7 | |
3479999916 | Strident | Loud and harsh; grating | 8 | |
3502931423 | Vehement | Ahowing strong feeling; forceful, passionate, or intense | 9 | |
3568957741 | Elegiac | Having a mournful quality | 10 | |
3568957742 | Fecund | Producing or capable of producing an abundance of offspring or new growth | 11 | |
3568957743 | Infirmity | physical or mental weakness | 12 | |
3568958936 | Malady | a disease or ailment | 13 | |
3568958937 | Nuance | A subtle difference in or shade of meaning, expression, or sound | 14 | |
3568958938 | Profligate | Recklessly extravagant or wasteful in the use of resources | 15 | |
3568958939 | Remonstrance | A forcefully reproachful protest | 16 | |
3568960159 | Scintillate | Emit flashes of light; sparkle | 17 | |
3568960160 | Terse | sparing in the use of words; abrupt | 18 | |
3568960161 | Vitiate | Spoil or impair the quality or efficiency of | 19 | |
3614941844 | Ambivalent | Having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone | 20 | |
3614941845 | Analogous | Comparable in certain respects, typically in a way that makes clearer the nature of the things compared | 21 | |
3614943261 | Emissary | A person sent on a special mission usually as a diplomatic representative | 22 | |
3614943262 | Felicity | Intense happiness | 23 | |
3614943263 | Incendiary | designed to cause fires | 24 | |
3614944810 | Maganimous | very generous or forgiving | 25 | |
3614944811 | Morose | sullen and ill-tempered | 26 | |
3614944812 | Repartee | conversation or speech characterized by quick, witty comments or replies | 27 | |
3614947074 | Ubiquitous | present, appearing, or found everywhere | 28 | |
3614947886 | Venerable | accorded a great deal of respect, especially because of age, wisdom, or character. | 29 | |
3656400143 | Conuntenance | A person's face or facial expression | 30 | |
3656400144 | Deposition | The action of deposing someone, especially a monarch | 31 | |
3656400145 | Discursive | Digressing from subject to subject | 32 | |
3656400182 | Epigram | A pithy saying or remark expressing an idea in a clever and amusing way | 33 | |
3656401666 | Feign | Pretend to be affected by (a feeling, state or injury) | 34 | |
3656401667 | Interpolate | insert (something) between fixed points | 35 | |
3656401668 | Iaconic | of a person, speech, or style of writing using very few words | 36 | |
3656402970 | Mien | A person's look or manner, especially one of a particular kind indicating their character or mood | 37 | |
3656402971 | Veracity | conformity to facts; accuracy | 38 | |
3656402972 | Wry | udinh or expressing dry, especially mocking, humor | 39 | |
3744599604 | Confound | cause surprise or confusion in (someone), especially by acting against their expectations | 40 | |
3744599605 | Curate(noun and verb) | Noun:A member of the clergy engaged as assistant to a vicar, rector, or parish priest Verb: organized or take charge | 41 | |
3744601963 | ethereal | extremely delicate and light in a way that seems too perfect for this world | 42 | |
3744601964 | gambol | Run or jump about playfully | 43 | |
3744603733 | mutability | the quality of being changeable | 44 | |
3744605442 | Nascent | just coming into existence and beginning to display signs of future potential | 45 | |
3744605443 | Nonplused | surprised and confused so much that they are unsure how to react | 46 | |
3744605444 | Pedantic | knows details | 47 | |
3744607582 | Quail(verb) | feel or show fear of apprehension | 48 | |
3744607583 | Rhetorical | expressed in terms intended to persuade or impress | 49 |
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