6600636380 | Spectral | (adj.) ghostly, ethereal | 0 | |
6600636381 | Mimic | (n.) a person who does imitations; (v.) to imitate; to make fun of | 1 | |
6600642183 | Ingratiate | (v.) to make oneself agreeable and thus gain favor or acceptance by others (sometimes used in a critical or derogatory sense) | 2 | |
6600637044 | Nostalgic | (adj.) longing for the past; filled with bittersweet memories | 3 | |
6600637045 | Sardonic | (adj.) grimly or scornfully mocking, bitterly sarcastic | 4 | |
6600637627 | Dubious | (adj) doubtful, questionable, suspect | 5 | |
6600637628 | Anachronism | something or someone out of place in terms of historical or chronological context | 6 | |
6600638089 | Maudlin | (adj.) weakly sentimental | 7 | |
6600638090 | Ephemeral | (adj.) lasting only a short time, short-lived | 8 | |
6600638091 | Lament | to express sorrow; to grieve | 9 | |
6600638475 | Panacea | (n.) a remedy for all ills; cure-all; an answer to all problems | 10 | |
6600638476 | Interminable | (adj.) endless, so long as to seem endless | 11 | |
6600638477 | Fallible | (adj.) capable of being wrong, mistaken, or inaccurate | 12 | |
6600638996 | Pedantic | boringly scholarly or academic | 13 | |
6600638997 | Penurious | penny-pinching; excessively thrifty; ungenerous | 14 | |
6600638998 | Admonish | (v.) to caution or advise against something; to scold mildly; to remind of a duty | 15 | |
6600639839 | Reticent | (adj) not talking much; private (of a person), restrained, reserved | 16 | |
6600640454 | Ambivalent | Having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone | 17 | |
6600641523 | Sanctimonious | (adj.) making a show of virtue or righteousness; hypocritically moralistic or pious, self-righteous, canting, holier-than-thou | 18 | |
6600641524 | Incredulous | Disbelieving, skeptical | 19 | |
6600641525 | Bemused | confused; lost in thought; preoccupied | 20 | |
6600642182 | Obsequious | Overly submissive and eager to please | 21 | |
6600642860 | Tenacious | Holding fast; holding together firmly; persistent | 22 | |
6600642861 | Lugubrious | exaggeratedly mournful | 23 | |
6600642862 | Placid | Calm, peaceful | 24 | |
6600643471 | Venerable | respected because of age | 25 | |
6600643472 | Gregarious | outgoing, extroverted | 26 | |
6600643473 | Sanguine | Optimistic | 27 | |
6600644075 | Obfuscate | deliberately make something difficult to understand | 28 | |
6600644076 | Perfunctory | done in a routine way; indifferent | 29 | |
6600644663 | Cumbersome | (adj.) clumsy, hard to handle; slow-moving | 30 | |
6600644664 | Onerous | troublesome and oppressive; burdensome | 31 | |
6600644665 | Acerbic | bitter, sharp in taste or temper | 32 | |
6600645980 | Sagacious | shrewd; wise | 33 | |
6600645981 | Munificent | (adj.) extremely generous, lavish | 34 | |
6600645982 | Enervate | to reduce in strength | 35 | |
6600646435 | Mawkish | (adj.) excessively and objectionably sentimental; having a mildly sickening flavor | 36 | |
6600647486 | Surreptitious | (adj.) stealthy, secret, intended to escape observation; made or accomplished by fraud | 37 | |
6600647487 | Morose | (adj) having a gloomy or sullen manner; not friendly or sociable | 38 | |
6600648203 | Astute | (adj.) shrewd, crafty, showing practical wisdom | 39 | |
6600648204 | Venality | the condition of being susceptible to bribes or corruption | 40 | |
6600648205 | Colloquialism | informal words or expressions not usually acceptable in formal writing | 41 | |
6600650077 | Malapropism | a word humorously misused | 42 | |
6600650078 | Mollify | to calm or make less severe | 43 | |
6600650079 | Guile | deceit; trickery | 44 | |
6600650596 | Misogynistic | a hatred of women | 45 | |
6600650597 | Pejorative | having bad connotations; disparaging | 46 | |
6600651055 | Precocious | (adj.) showing unusually early development (especially in talents and mental capacity) | 47 | |
6600651056 | Pensive | (adj.) thoughtful; melancholy | 48 | |
6600651654 | Ennui | (n.) weariness and dissatisfaction from lack of occupation or interest, boredom | 49 | |
6600651655 | Petulant | (adj.) peevish, annoyed by trifles, easily irritated and upset | 50 | |
6600652558 | Vitriolic | (adj.) bitter, sarcastic; highly caustic or biting (like a strong acid) | 51 | |
6600652559 | Apathetic | showing or feeling no interest, enthusiasm, or concern. | 52 | |
6600652560 | Wry | (adj.) twisted, turned to one side; cleverly and often grimly humorous | 53 | |
6600653019 | Droll | amusing in a wry, subtle way | 54 | |
6600653020 | Fastidious | Hard to please; fussy | 55 | |
6600654247 | Magnanimous | Generous in forgiving, above small meanness | 56 | |
6600654248 | Provincial | unsophisticated; narrow-minded | 57 | |
6600655002 | Scrupulous | careful; diligent; painstaking | 58 | |
6600655003 | Intrepid | fearless; resolutely courageous | 59 | |
6600655004 | Corpulent | Fat; having a large, bulky body | 60 | |
6600655795 | Supercilious | Behaving or looking as though one thinks one is superior to others | 61 | |
6600655796 | Banal | predictable; cliched; boring | 62 | |
6600655797 | Vernacular | Everyday language of ordinary people | 63 | |
6600655798 | Jovial | Cheerful and friendly | 64 | |
6600656773 | Macabre | (adj.) grisly, gruesome; horrible, distressing; having death as a subject | 65 | |
6600656774 | Diabolical | devilish | 66 | |
6600656775 | Pious | Devoutly religious | 67 | |
6600656776 | Immutable | unchanging; permanent | 68 | |
6600657823 | Polemical | controversial; argumentative | 69 | |
6600657824 | Caustic | Bitingly sarcastic or witty | 70 | |
6600658257 | Emphatic | forceful and definite in expression or action | 71 | |
6600658258 | Aplomb | (n.) poise, assurance, great self-confidence; perpendicularity | 72 | |
6600658259 | Empirical | based on observation or experiment | 73 | |
6600660908 | Obdurate | hardened in feeling; resistant to persuasion | 74 | |
6600660909 | Pragmatic | practical, as opposed to idealistic | 75 | |
6600660910 | Aversion | A strong feeling of dislike | 76 | |
6600661581 | Punctilious | (adj.) very careful and exact, attentive to fine points of etiquette or propriety | 77 | |
6600662197 | Congenial | (adj.) getting on well with others; agreeable, pleasant | 78 | |
6600662198 | Maladriot | ineffective or bungling; clumsy | 79 | |
6600662199 | Fractious | (adj.) tending to be troublesome; unruly, quarrelsome, contrary; unpredictable | 80 | |
6600663293 | Meticulous | Extremely careful about details | 81 | |
6600683368 | Interloper | an unauthorized person | 82 | |
6600683369 | Vicarious | (adj.) performed, suffered, or otherwise experienced by one person in place of another | 83 | |
6600683370 | Capricious | Changing one's mind quickly and often | 84 | |
6600684054 | Vacillate | To sway physically; to be indecisive | 85 | |
6600684055 | Nefarious | (adj.) wicked, depraved, devoid of moral standards | 86 | |
6600684056 | Cajole | (v.) to coax, persuade through flattery or artifice; to deceive with soothing thoughts or false promises | 87 | |
6600684445 | Mitigate | (v.) to make milder or softer, to moderate in force or intensity | 88 | |
6600684960 | Inundate | (v.) to flood, overflow; to overwhelm by numbers or size | 89 | |
6600684961 | Trepidation | (n.) fear, fright, trembling | 90 | |
6600684962 | Nebulous | (adj.) cloudlike, resembling a cloud; cloudy in color, not transparent; vague, confused, indistinct | 91 | |
6600685739 | Paradigm | (n) model or pattern; worldview, set of shared assumptions, values, etc. | 92 | |
6600686400 | Unctous | excessively smooth, suave, or smug | 93 | |
6600686401 | Scintillate | to sparkle; to twinkle; to sparkle intellectually | 94 | |
6600686402 | Salubrious | (adj) healthful, promoting health | 95 | |
6600686967 | Malady | a sickness, illness, disease, disorder | 96 | |
6600686968 | Irksome | annoying; frustrating | 97 | |
6600686969 | Ebullient | (adj.) overflowing with enthusiasm and excitement; boiling, bubbling | 98 | |
6600687423 | Corporeal | of the nature of the human body; material; tangible. | 99 | |
6600687424 | Bellicose | Demonstrating aggression and willingness to fight. | 100 | |
6602898377 | Hamper | hinder; obstruct | 101 | |
6602898379 | Tangent | going off the main subject | 102 | |
6602898380 | Harangue | noisy, attacking speech | 103 | |
6602899149 | Replete | abundantly supplied; complete | 104 | |
6602899150 | Harbinger | A person or thing that is a symbol of what is to come | 105 | |
6602899151 | Plaudit | statement giving strong praise | 106 | |
6602899152 | Plausible | (adj.) appearing true, reasonable, or fair | 107 | |
6602900183 | Plethora | Excess; excessive amount | 108 | |
6602900184 | Abstemious | self denying; refraining from indulging | 109 | |
6602900185 | Hedonism | self indulgence; pleasure-seeking | 110 | |
6602900186 | Laconic | Brief and to the point | 111 | |
6602900592 | Bombast | pompous and grandiloquent language; pretentious. | 112 | |
6602900593 | Lampoon | ridicule; spoof | 113 | |
6602913971 | Gratuitous | Freely given; not called for by circumstances, unwarranted | 114 | |
6602913972 | Corroborate | to support with evidence | 115 | |
6602913973 | Fortuitous | Happening by chance | 116 | |
6602913974 | Invective | abusive language | 117 | |
6602914656 | Bedlam | A state or scene of uproar and confusion | 118 | |
6602914657 | Reprobate | A morally unprincipled person | 119 | |
6602914658 | Gist | the essential part, main point, or essence | 120 | |
6602914659 | Penury | Extreme poverty | 121 | |
6602915405 | Recapitulate | Summarize, repeat in a concise way | 122 | |
6602915406 | Culpable | (adj.) deserving blame, worthy of condemnation | 123 | |
6602915407 | Impugn | to call into question; to attack verbally | 124 | |
6602915408 | Egregious | Extremely bad; flagrant | 125 | |
6602916397 | Sinecure | a well-paying job or office that requires little or no work | 126 | |
6602916398 | Austere | severe or stern in appearance; undecorated | 127 | |
6602916399 | Castigate | to punish or criticize harshly | 128 | |
6602916955 | Insurgent | rebellious | 129 |
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