5152002635 | LUCID | Easy to understand | 0 | |
5152003578 | PRECARIOUS | Dangerous; risky; lacking in security or stability | 1 | |
5152006348 | PROPENSITY | A natural inclination or tendency | 2 | |
5152007209 | SARDONIC | cynical; scornfully mocking | 3 | |
5152007912 | RETARD | to make slow, delay, hold back | 4 | |
5152007913 | DISDAIN | arrogant scorn; contempt | 5 | |
5152007914 | REPRESS | To hold back; to put down or check by force | 6 | |
5152008482 | AMBIVALENCE | The state of having contradictory or conflicting emotional attitudes | 7 | |
5152011479 | CONVALESCENCE | gradual recovery after an illness | 8 | |
5152011480 | VITALITY | energy; power to survive | 9 | |
5152011481 | WROUGHT | shaped; made | 10 | |
5152011482 | VIGOR | Physical strength and good health | 11 | |
5152012513 | DISPOSSESSED | evicted, as from a dwelling; without property or status; rootless, alienated; having suffered the loss of expectations, prospects, or relationships | 12 | |
5226906007 | AILMENT | a minor illness | 13 | |
5226912417 | INDELIBLE | Not able to be erased or removed; memorable | 14 | |
5226915414 | HAPPENSTANCE | a chance happening or event | 15 | |
5226917127 | GREGARIOUS | outgoing; sociable | 16 | |
5226919571 | BENIGN | harmless, gentle, kind; forgiving, understanding; having a favorable or beneficial effect; not malignant | 17 | |
5351604573 | DEFTLY | quickly and skillfully | 18 | |
5351607166 | SKEWED | distorted or off-centered | 19 | |
5351611859 | SYNECDOCHE | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa | 20 | |
5351614883 | ODE | A lyric poem usually marked by serious, respectful, and exalted feelings toward the subject. | 21 | |
5351618264 | ELEGY | a sorrowful poem or speech | 22 | |
5351620459 | PASTORAL | relating to countryside or nomadic traditions | 23 | |
5646901163 | BREVITY | Briefness | 24 | |
5646901164 | BREADTH | width; extent | 25 | |
5646901165 | PERCHANCE | perhaps; possibly | 26 | |
5646901166 | ENTHRALL | to captivate, charm, hold spellbound; to enslave; to imprison | 27 | |
5646901167 | RECIPROCAL | shared; involving give-and-take between two persons or things; working in both directions | 28 | |
5646901169 | LAMENT | to express sorrow; to grieve | 29 | |
5646901170 | VINDICTIVE | Revengeful | 30 |
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