5372937293 | Derisory | When I offered him the diamond that was worth $10, he laughed at me and said that the diamond had no value due to the derisory amount of money it was being offered for | 0 | |
5384666240 | Interlocutors | That actor is not a very good interlocutor, for he always responds to questions from the media with one word | 1 | |
5384699463 | Superciliousness | After she paid for all of our meals, she looked at us with superciliousness as if trying to prove a point | 2 | |
5384746442 | Tumultuous | After she gave the best piano performance of her career, the audience gave her a standing ovation and tumultuous applause that filled the recital hall | 3 | |
5384758978 | Tenebrous | During Halloween, his friends forced him to walk through a tenebrous hallway in a haunted house; however, they didn't know he was still afraid of the dark | 4 | |
5384875721 | Lugubrious | The speaker attempted to lift the lugubrious atmosphere by telling a few jokes at the funeral | 5 | |
5384886951 | Farcical | After watching the farcical play we concluded that the playwright must have been intoxicated when he created it | 6 | |
5384921093 | Bereavement | During her bereavement after the death of her grandfather, the girl only wore black clothes | 7 | |
5384928625 | Recondite | The man thought that the patent for the TAVR procedure was recondite, for he didn't have a medical degree | 8 | |
5384965790 | Prevaricator | She thought he was a prevaricator due to the way he told small lies in his stories | 9 | |
5384991359 | Fecund | Farmers often want the most fecund breed of cattle, for they want to maximize the amount of cattle they have | 10 | |
5385006749 | Moribund | The man was moribund in the hospital after losing a massive amount of blood in a car crash | 11 | |
5385013042 | Volubility | Although she thought he was very shy and didn't say much at work, she was surprised at his volubility at the party | 12 | |
5385024859 | Posit | 13 | ||
5385049194 | Brusque | They decided not to tip the waiter due to his brusque attitude throughout the evening | 14 | |
5385057722 | Alacrity | After effectively studying and preparing for four hours last night, I took the test with alacrity | 15 | |
5385063292 | Impetuous | He thought they were being impetuous by dropping out high school merely to go on a one year trip | 16 | |
5385069516 | Inextricable | Many people believe that there is an inextricable link between poverty and poor health | 17 | |
5385077857 | Drollery | Although they viewed him tripping over the stairs as a drollery, he was embarrassed and not amused | 18 | |
5385092252 | Indefatigable | After losing his mother to breast cancer, he became an indefatigable promoter for breast cancer research | 19 | |
5385096760 | Exulted | After winning the lottery, his family took him out to a nice dinner to exult in his victory | 20 | |
5385101945 | Sagacious | By playing with fire, they realized he wasn't too sagacious | 21 | |
5385111165 | Deification | She criticized the deification of a student in her grade, for she didn't think that someone should be idolized merely because of their physical appearance | 22 | |
5385121510 | Recrimination | He was disgusted by the recrimination made by the murderer against his victims | 23 | |
5385125977 | Enigma | By living secluded at the top of the hill away from the town, the woman was viewed as an enigma by her community | 24 | |
5385130268 | Rapacity | A common misconception about sharks is their rapacity for human flesh | 25 | |
5385144540 | Declivity | When hiking down the trail, she tripped over the steep declivity and twisted her ankle | 26 | |
5385147157 | Futile | During our volleyball game against Delta we made a futile effort to beat them after four games, resulting in our elimination from the tournament | 27 | |
5385150904 | Indissolubly | The image of the man being shot was indissolubly connected to her brain due to the traumatic effect it had on her | 28 | |
5385163496 | Inexorably | After he made a racist remark, the votes flowed inexorably in favor of his opponent | 29 | |
5385178341 | Pacifically | Although her two-year-old son throws many tantrums, I am amazed at how she always talks pacifically to him | 30 | |
5385193506 | Beguiled | I don't care for people who know they are beautiful and try to beguile wealthy people with their looks | 31 | |
5385196887 | Ethnographic | 32 | ||
5385199732 | Languidly | Sometimes after stressful days at school, I enjoy taking a long, languid bath | 33 | |
5385201828 | Abject | The house was in abject shape after the teenagers threw a massive party in it | 34 |
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