Debbie Corpus words that have no specific grouping but are useful
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| 84526489 | solecism | a nonstandard usage or grammatical construction, violation of etiquette, impropriety | |
| 84526490 | abstruse | difficult to understand | |
| 84526491 | obtuse | lacking quickness of perception or intellect | |
| 84526492 | reprobation | severe disapproval | |
| 84526493 | coterie | an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose | |
| 84526494 | perspicuity | clearness lucidity | |
| 84526495 | cant | insincere talk about religion or morals, characteristic language of a particular group | |
| 84526496 | nicety | requiring or showing careful precise treatment; delicacy of character or feeling | |
| 84526497 | idiom | a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words; a characteristic mode of expression in music or art | |
| 84526498 | idiosyncratic | a strange unusual habit | |
| 84526499 | unction | anointing as part of a religious ceremony or healing ritual; earnestness; excessive but superficial compliments given with affected charm | |
| 84526500 | cull | remove something that has been rejected; to look for to gather | |
| 84526501 | rhodomontade | vain and empty boasting | |
| 84526502 | fustian | a strong cotton linen fabric with a slight nap for commoners; pompous or pretentious talk or writing | |
| 84526503 | bathos | bad pathos; triteness or triviality of style | |
| 84526504 | bulwark | a wall or embankment for defense | |
| 84526505 | crescendo | a steady rise in intensity or force | |
| 84526506 | disingenuous | crafty not straightforward | |
| 84526507 | dogged | unrelenting persistent | |
| 84526508 | etymology | study of word origin and change | |
| 84526509 | extant | in existence | |
| 84526510 | impresario | producer of entertainment; manager | |
| 84526511 | intransigent | refusing to moderate a position; uncompromising | |
| 84526512 | lachrymose | inclined to shed many tears | |
| 84526513 | malaise | discomfort unease | |
| 84526514 | pallid | pale dull | |
| 84526515 | palpable | able to be handled or touched; obvious | |
| 84526516 | pundit | a critic | |
| 84526517 | requisite | required; important | |
| 84526518 | waive | not enforce a rule; set aside | |
| 84526519 | circuitous | indirect; roundabout | |
| 84526520 | circumlocution | an unnecessarily wordy or evasive form of expression | |
| 84526521 | deleterious | having a harmful effect; injurious | |
| 84526522 | extenuating | lessening the seriousness of | |
| 84526523 | inchoate | unformed or undeveloped | |
| 84526524 | largesse | generosity | |
| 84526525 | luminous | bright; full of light | |
| 84526526 | majordomo | follower; butler | |
| 84526527 | perambulate | to walk about; stroll | |
| 84526528 | prevaricate | to lie; mislead | |
| 84526529 | propriety | appropriateness | |
| 84526530 | timorous | timid | |
| 84526531 | tremulous | timid fearful | |
| 84526532 | untenable | incapable of being defended | |
| 84526533 | veneer | any thin attractive surface layer | |
| 84526534 | parapet | fortification consisting of a low wall | |
| 84526535 | advocate | a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea | |
| 84526536 | degradation | changing to a lower state; a decline to a lower condition or quality | |
| 84526537 | pensive | showing thoughtful sadness; morbidly thoughtful | |
| 84526538 | philanderer | a man who likes many women and has short sexual relationships with them | |
| 84526539 | implacable | impossible to appease; having or expressing very angry or determined feelings that will not change | |
| 84526540 | vitriolic | harsh or corrosive in tone violent hate and anger expressed through severe criticism | |
| 84526541 | discern | to perceive with the eyes or intellect; detect | |
| 84526542 | exhortative | giving strong encouragement; acting or intended to encourage | |
| 84526543 | pedantic | marked by a narrow focus | |
| 84526544 | ambivalent | uncertain or unable to decide about what course to follow; a mixture of opposite attitudes or feelings | |
| 84526545 | epiphany | a revelation | |
| 84526546 | denigrate | to attack character or reputation of; speak ill of; defame | |
| 84526547 | imperious | befitting or characteristic of one of eminent rank or attainments; intensely compelling | |
| 84526548 | apoplectic | informal overcome with anger (stroke) | |
| 84526549 | caricature | a representation in which the subject's distinctive features or peculiarities are deliberately exaggerated to produce a comic effect | |
| 86363005 | abject | deserving contempt sunk to a low condition wretched | |
| 86363006 | abysmal | deep profound immeasurably great | |
| 86363007 | abyss | bottomless depth immeasurably great space | |
| 86363008 | anticlimax | abrupt decline from the dignified or important to the trivial or ludicrous; comedown; bathos | |
| 86363009 | chasm | deep breach; wide gap or rift | |
| 86363010 | declivity | downward slope | |
| 86363011 | dregs | most worthless part; sediment at the bottom of a liquid | |
| 86363012 | earthy | down to earth; realistic; coarse; low | |
| 86363013 | humble | of low position or condition; not proud unpretentious modest; courteously respectful | |
| 86363014 | humiliate | lower the pride position or dignity of abuse degrade mortify | |
| 86363015 | humility | freedom from pride; humbleness; lowliness; modesty | |
| 87752762 | adolescent | growing from childhood to adulthood; roughly of the teenage period | |
| 87752763 | adolescent | a teenager | |
| 87752764 | antediluvian | antiquated belonging to the time before the biblical Flood | |
| 87752765 | archaic | no longer used, except in a special context; old fashioned | |
| 87752766 | callow | young and inexperienced; unfledged | |
| 87752767 | contemporary | of the same period or duration | |
| 87752768 | contemporary | person who lives at the same time as another | |
| 87752769 | crone | withered old woman | |
| 87752770 | decrepit | weakened by old age | |
| 87752771 | defunct | dead; deceased; extinct | |
| 87752772 | forebear | forefather; ancestor; progenitor | |
| 87752773 | hoary | white or gray with age ancient | |
| 87752774 | infantile | of or like an infant or infancy; childish | |
| 87752775 | inveterate | firmly eatablished by age; deep rooted | |
| 87752776 | juvenile | of or for youth; youthful immature | |
| 87752777 | longevity | long life length of life | |
| 87752778 | matriarch | mother and ruler of a family or tribe; founder highly respected old woman | |
| 87752779 | mature | full grown; ripe carefully though out | |
| 87752780 | nonage | legal minority; period before maturity | |
| 87752781 | nonagenarian | person 90-99 years old | |
| 87752782 | obsolescent | going out of use becoming obsolete | |
| 87752783 | obsolete | no longer in use out-of-date | |
| 87752784 | patriarch | father and ruler of a family or tribe founder highly respected old man | |
| 87752785 | posthumous | published after the author's death occurring after death | |
| 87752786 | prelapsarian | of the time or state before the fall of mankind | |
| 87752787 | primeval | pertaining to the world's first ages; primitive | |
| 87752788 | primordial | existing at the very beginning elementary primary first in order | |
| 87752789 | pristine | in original long ago state uncorrupted | |
| 87752790 | puberty | physical beginning of manhood | |
| 87752791 | puerile | foolish for a grown person to say or do; childish | |
| 87752792 | senile | showing the weakness of age | |
| 87752793 | superannuated | retired on a pension; advanced in years; very old incapacitated by age | |
| 87752794 | venerable | worthy of respect because of advanced age, achievement, virtue, or historical importance | |
| 87752795 | veteran | person experienced in some occupation art or profession | |
| 87752796 | yore | (always preceded by of) long ago | |
| 90046722 | chafe | make or become sore by rubbing against something; to restore warmth or sensation; to become annoyed | |
| 90046723 | expiation | expiatory; the act or the means of making amends as for a sin or crime | |
| 90046724 | paroxysm | a sudden outburst of emotion or action; a sudden attack or recurrence of disease; spasm fit convulsion | |
| 90046725 | fecund | capable of producing offspring or vegetation; marked by intellectual productivity | |
| 90046726 | accede | to agree or consent; assent to come into possession of an office or title | |
| 90046727 | soporific | causing sleep sleepy; drowsy a drug that causes sleepiness | |
| 90046728 | motley | incongruously varied in appearance or character archaic | |
| 90046729 | prescience | knowledge of actions or events before they occur; foresight | |
| 90046730 | stentorian | loud and powerful | |
| 90046731 | chimerical | existing only in the mind; fanciful; imaginary | |
| 90046732 | seraphic | angelic; superhuman pure | |
| 90046733 | ubiquitous | being present everywhere parsimonyat once | |
| 90046734 | concatenation | a series of related events | |
| 90046735 | parsimony | excessive unwillingness to spend money or use resources; stinginess | |
| 90046736 | stupefaction | act of stupefying complete paralyzing amazement or utter confusion | |
| 90046737 | consternation | a feeling of anxiety or dismay, typically unexpected | |
| 90046738 | relegate | to move someone or something to a less important position | |
| 90046739 | avidity | keen eagerness consuming greed | |
| 90046740 | repudiate | to reject the validity or authority of | |
| 90046741 | vagary | an unexpected and inexplicable change in a situation or in someone's behavior | |
| 92266050 | halcyon | calm pleasant | |
| 92266051 | hallow | to make holy holy | |
| 92266052 | harbinger | an omen or sign | |
| 92266053 | harlequin | a clown | |
| 92266054 | hector | to bully pester | |
| 92266055 | hedonism | pursuit of pleasure, especially of the senses | |
| 92266056 | hegira | flight, escape | |
| 92266057 | hermetic | tightly sealed | |
| 92266058 | heterogeneous | different dissimilar | |
| 92266059 | hiatus | a pause or gap | |
| 92266060 | hoi polloi | common people; the masses | |
| 92266061 | hospice | a shelter | |
| 92266062 | hubris | excessive pride of self confidence | |
| 92266063 | hybrid | anything of mixed origin mixed assorted | |
| 92266064 | idiosyncrasy | a peculiar personality trait | |
| 97099379 | sycophant | a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage | |
| 97099380 | fuliginous | Pertaining to smoke; resembling smoke Pertaining to soot; sooty; dark; dusky | |
| 97099381 | burgeon | grow flourish (Deb said it might be grouped with fecund) | |
| 97099382 | ludicrous | broadly or extravagantly humorous; resembling farce completely devoid of wisdom or good sense | |
| 97099383 | undulant | having a rising and falling motion or appearance like that of waves | |
| 97099384 | tripe | lining of the stomach of a ruminant nonsensical talk or writing | |
| 97099385 | monism | the view in metaphysics that reality is a unified whole and that all existing things can be ascribed to or described by a single concept or system the doctrine that mind and matter are formed from, or reducible to the same ultimate substance or principle of being | |
| 97099386 | nonce | the present occasion ("For the nonce") | |
| 97099387 | fontanel | any membranous gap between the bones of the cranium in an infant or fetus | |
| 97099388 | bumptious | obnoxiously assertive; pushy | |
| 97099389 | brume | fog or mist | |
| 97099390 | decimate | kill one in every ten kill in large numbers | |
| 97099391 | brachiate | swing from one hold to the next having arms or armlike appendages having widely spreading paired branches | |
| 97099392 | sough | of the wind in trees, make a moaning, whistling or rushing sound a sound of nature | |
| 97099393 | obsequious | attentive in an ingratiating or servile manner attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery | |
| 97099394 | keen | a funeral lament sung with loud wailing express grief verbally | |
| 97099395 | ossify | to make into or like bone to make( patterns of thought, behavior, or the like) inflexible or rigid intrans verb: to harden into or like bone |
