9321852444 | empathize | understand and share the feelings of another | 0 | |
9321856715 | timorous | showing or suffering from nervousness, fear, or a lack of confidence | 1 | |
9321862617 | transcendent | beyond or above the range of normal or merely physical human experience | 2 | |
9321872423 | reticent | not revealing one's thoughts or feelings readily | 3 | |
9321875233 | profundity | deep insight; great depth of knowledge or thought | 4 | |
9321878263 | disdain | the feeling that someone or something is unworthy of one's consideration or respect | 5 | |
9321882092 | langour | the state or feeling, often pleasant, of tiredness or inertia | 6 | |
9321892327 | piety | the quality of being religious or reverent | 7 | |
9321892329 | indictment | a thing that serves to illustrate that a system or situation is bad and deserves to be condemned | 8 | |
9321900079 | servility | an excessive willingness to serve or please others | 9 | |
9321904238 | sinister | giving the impression that something harmful or evil is happening or will happen | 10 | |
9321912129 | ambivalent | having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone | 11 | |
9321915251 | lethargic | affected by lethargy; sluggish and apathetic | 12 | |
9321920202 | truism | a statement that is obviously true and says nothing new or interesting | 13 | |
9321958161 | antipathy | a deep-seated feeling of dislike; aversion | 14 | |
9321961524 | incisiveness | (of a person or mental process) intelligently analytical and clear-thinking | 15 | |
9321977461 | candor | the quality of being open and honest in expression; frankness | 16 | |
9321981065 | conciliatory | intended or likely to placate or pacify | 17 | |
9321984513 | indolence | avoidance of activity or exertion; laziness | 18 | |
9321989516 | prudent | acting with or showing care and thought for the future | 19 | |
9322002632 | verisimilitude | the appearance of being true or real | 20 | |
9322022079 | denotation | the literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests | 21 | |
9322022080 | connotation | an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning | 22 | |
9322032686 | bombast | high-sounding language with little meaning, used to impress people. | 23 | |
9328658756 | lugubrious | looking or sounding sad and dismal. | 24 | |
9328662038 | polemical | relating to or involving strongly critical, controversial, or disputatious writing or speech | 25 | |
9328664012 | pathos | a quality that evokes pity or sadness | 26 | |
9328666666 | bathos | (especially in a work of literature) an effect of anticlimax created by an unintentional lapse in mood from the sublime to the trivial or ridiculous | 27 | |
9328668925 | terse | sparing in the use of words; abrupt | 28 | |
9328671122 | laconic | using very few words | 29 | |
9328676960 | sanguine | optimistic or positive, especially in an apparently bad or difficult situation | 30 | |
9328681392 | effusive | expressing feelings of gratitude, pleasure, or approval in an unrestrained or heartfelt manner | 31 | |
9328689970 | cynical | believing that people are motivated by self-interest; distrustful of human sincerity or integrity | 32 | |
9328692113 | ebullient | cheerful and full of energy | 33 | |
9328694200 | introspective | characterized by or given to introspection | 34 | |
9328696575 | pedantic | of or like a person who is excessively concerned with minor details and rules or with displaying academic learning | 35 | |
9328707232 | verbose | using or expressed in more words than are needed | 36 | |
9328709908 | insouciance | casual lack of concern; indifference | 37 | |
9328712829 | choleric | bad-tempered or irritable | 38 | |
9328716070 | complexity | the state or quality of being intricate or complicated | 39 | |
9328719292 | contentious | causing or likely to cause an argument; controversial | 40 | |
9328722049 | melancholy | a feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause | 41 | |
9328725257 | vitriolic | filled with bitter criticism or malice | 42 | |
9328729516 | jocund | cheerful and lighthearted | 43 | |
9328732133 | euphoric | characterized by or feeling intense excitement and happiness | 44 | |
9328734964 | haughty | arrogantly superior and disdainful | 45 | |
9328738050 | sardonic | grimly mocking or cynical | 46 | |
9328740253 | pithy | concise and forcefully expressive | 47 |
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