2932361980 | Laconic | Using few words. Tense. Concise. ADJ | 0 | |
2932368069 | Bamboozle | To deceive. Be elaborate. Trickery. Hoodwink. V | 1 | |
2932372749 | Decorum | Proper behavior or conduct propriety. N | 2 | |
2932378000 | Despondent | Feeling depression from loss of home, confidence, or courage. Defeated. ADJ | 3 | |
2932384191 | Fallacy | A false notion or mistaken belief. N | 4 | |
2932387402 | Renaissance | Rebirth or revival. N | 5 | |
2932389550 | Tumult | Noisy and disorderly activity. Commotion. Uproar. N | 6 | |
2932395943 | Vacillate | To be unable to decide between opinion or course of action and another. Waver. V | 7 | |
2932401036 | Voracious | Ravenous. Insatiable appetite for food or activity. ADJ | 8 | |
2932406603 | Calamity | A terrible disaster or catastrophe. N | 9 | |
2932413318 | Formidable | Fearsome. Causing dread. Difficult to deal with. Inspiring respect or wonder because of size strength ability. ADJ | 10 | |
2932424643 | Indignant | Upset. Angry. Annoyed at a perceived injustice. Offended. ADJ | 11 | |
2932432659 | Insolent | Disrespect. Rude. Insulting. Outspoken in speech and behavior. ADJ | 12 | |
2932436444 | Irate | Extremely angry. Furious. Incensed. ADJ | 13 | |
2932439600 | Ubiquitous | Being everywhere at the same time. ADJ | 14 | |
2932445193 | Pasimonious | Stingy. Frugal. ADJ | 15 | |
2932446473 | Rhetoric | The art of formal speaking or writing. Inflated discause. N | 16 | |
2932450169 | Nemesis | A dreadful rival. Opponent. N | 17 | |
2932451933 | Nostalgia | Feeling of sadness, happiness and/or bittersweet longing for people or things in the past. N | 18 | |
4029932364 | Persnickety | Fussy about small details, fastidious | 19 | |
4029933292 | Ennui | Boredom, feeling of weariness | 20 | |
4029934170 | Pontificate | To be pompous or dogmatic, to speak about something in a knowing and self-important way, especially when not qualified to do so | 21 | |
4029938351 | Oxymoron | Combination of contradictory/incongruent words | 22 | |
4029939496 | Juxtapose | To put two or more things together, to suggest a link between them or emphasize the contrast | 23 | |
4029942210 | Heinous | Abominable, reprehensible, very bad or evil | 24 | |
4029942912 | Impertinent | Not restrained within proper bounds, especially of good taste, also characterized by rudeness | 25 | |
4029944487 | Altruistic | Concerned with the welfare of others, unselfish | 26 | |
4029945363 | Loquacious | Very talkative | 27 | |
4029947614 | Pandemonium | Wild disorder or noise | 28 | |
4029947615 | Myopic | A narrow view of something, single vision nearsightedness | 29 | |
4029950274 | Taciturn | Almost always silent, not liking to talk | 30 | |
4029950986 | Countenance | Face, physiognomy | 31 | |
4029951830 | Juggernaut | Something (force, campaign, or movement) that is extremely large and powerful and cannot be stopped | 32 | |
4029953615 | Obstreperous | Noisily and stubbornly defiant, unruly | 33 | |
4029954516 | Nugatory | Trifling, worthless, inconsequential | 34 | |
4029955701 | Pathos | Sense of compassion, pity | 35 | |
4029956428 | Verisimilitude | The quality of appearing to be true, real, likely, or probable | 36 | |
4029957334 | Antithesis | The direct opposite, the contrast of two opposites | 37 | |
4029958102 | Pundit | A learned person, one who gives authoritative opinions | 38 | |
4029959400 | Desecrate | To violate the sacredness of, treat with disrespect | 39 | |
4029960299 | Capricious | Unpredictable, Impulsive | 40 | |
4029960987 | Winnow | To rid of undesirable parts | 41 | |
4029961884 | Depravity | Extreme wickedness | 42 | |
4029962907 | Pratfall | A humiliating defeat or failure, a fall to the buttocks | 43 | |
4029964223 | Bane | A cause of ruin, worry, or destruction, a person or thing that ruins or spoils | 44 | |
4029965143 | Debacle | A sudden collapse or overthrow, an overwhelming defeat, a rout | 45 | |
4029967265 | Egregious | Remarkably bad, flagrant | 46 | |
4029967801 | Augment | To increase, to make bigger or greater | 47 | |
4029968330 | Mercurial | Changeable, fickle following no predictable pattern | 48 | |
4029969076 | Pernicious | Highly injurious or destructive, deadly | 49 | |
4029969805 | Misogyny | The hatred of women | 50 | |
4029970358 | Proclivity | Natural or habitual inclination or tendency, predisposition | 51 | |
4029971758 | Perfunctory | Done merely as a routine, superficial, without concern, indifferent | 52 | |
4029974726 | Anomalous | Unusual, irregular | 53 | |
4029975570 | Avarice | Greed | 54 | |
4029975571 | Paradigm | An example or model | 55 | |
4029977008 | Nefarious | Very wicked, villainous | 56 | |
4029977618 | Curmudgeon | Somebody considered to be bad tempered, disagreeable or stubbornly | 57 | |
4029978571 | Sequester | To seclude, isolate set apart | 58 | |
4029979635 | Opulent | Very wealthy, abundant | 59 | |
4029979652 | Macabre | Grim and horrible, gruesome | 60 | |
4029980864 | Vilify | Defame, speak evil of | 61 | |
4029981314 | Hoodwink | To deceive, delude | 62 | |
4029981786 | Equivocal | Ambiguous, usually intended to deceive | 63 | |
4029982581 | Rhapsodize | To express in an overly enthusiastic manner | 64 | |
4029983308 | Machiavellian | Subtle or unscrupulous, cunning, deception, expediency, dishonest | 65 |
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