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| 153146116 | lament | (n) an expression of grief, especially a vivid or passionate one | 0 | |
| 153146117 | languish | (v) -to droop; take on a melancholy air -to pine -to suffer neglect either way, you are miserable | 1 | |
| 153146118 | lascivious | (adj) lewd and lustful, describes anything intended to arouse lustful thoughts or sexual desires | 2 | |
| 153146119 | lax | (adj) showing a lack of interest in doing something either well or on time; negligent, lacking in strict observance | 3 | |
| 153146120 | lay | (adj) applicable to one who is not a member, or connected with, a particular profession, especially law or medicine, but it can apply in its negative sense to any profession | 4 | |
| 153146121 | lethargic | (adj) sluggish, listless, without pep or energy | 5 | |
| 153146122 | leviathan | (n) a monster, any thing of wondrous size or vast power | 6 | |
| 153146123 | linchpin | (n) characterizes anybody or anything deemed vital to hold a situation together | 7 | |
| 153146124 | limpid | (adj) clear, express linguistic clarity, like lucid -also means serene, untorubled | 8 | |
| 153146125 | lissome, lossom | (adj) supple, lithe, agile | 9 | |
| 153146126 | litany | (n) a form of prayer consisting of a series of supplications to God, each followed by the same response from the worshipers. It has come to be applied to any monotonously repetitious recital | 10 | |
| 153146127 | lithe | pliant, supple | 11 | |
| 153146128 | litigious | (adj) always inclined to sue, aching for a lawsuit; argumentative, eager to pick a fight | 12 | |
| 153146129 | lurid | (adj) -gruesome, shockingly vivid -sensational -can be used to describe something with a fiery flow, garishly red | 13 | |
| 153146130 | macrocosm | (n) the great world around us, the entire universe, the whole of something, the whole world in itself | 14 | |
| 153328137 | microcosm | (n) a miniature world, anything seen as a miniature sample of a whole word, as resembling something else on a small scale | 15 | |
| 153328138 | maladroit | (adj) awkward, bungling, | 16 | |
| 153328139 | malaise | (n) describes a general feeling of uneasiness, physical or mental or both | 17 | |
| 153328140 | malleable | (adj) impressionable; workable, shapable | 18 | |
| 153328141 | manque | (adj) unfulfilled, fallen short | 19 | |
| 153328142 | martinet | (n) a strict disciplinarian, one who demands obedience without question, often applied in military circles | 20 | |
| 153328143 | masticate | (v) to chew, to reduce to a pulp | 21 | |
| 153328144 | matriculate | (v) to enroll | 22 | |
| 153328145 | maw | (n) a mouth, jaws, throat, gullet. any great opening resembling an animal's jaws | 23 | |
| 153328146 | mendacious | (adj) false, lying, untruthful | 24 | |
| 153328147 | mendicant | (n) beggar | 25 | |
| 153400992 | mercurial | (adj) -lively and sprightly -changeable. fickle. erratic | 26 | |
| 153400993 | meretricious | (adj) tawdry and insincere, though showily attractive, "like a prostitute"..LOLZ; dishonest. cheap, flashy allure | 27 | |
| 153400994 | metaphor | (n) a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is used not literally. but in a way that suggests a comparison of the thing described with something else | 28 | |
| 153402399 | metaphysics | (n) to characterize an argument or theory as too far-fetched and abstruse to prove the point contended for. Is not supported by facts and probabilities | 29 | |
| 153402400 | mete | (v) to distribute or allot out something | 30 | |
| 153402401 | miasma | (n) noxious air or unwholesome exhalations, used to describe a pervasive atmosphere that tends to harm or corrupt | 31 | |
| 153497887 | mien | (n) bearing, air, especially as an indication of a person's character or mood | 32 | |
| 153497888 | misanthrope | (n) people hater, a person who dislikes just about everybody. | 33 | |
| 153497889 | misapprehension | mistake | 34 | |
| 153497890 | misappropriate | (v) to take or apply (property or funds) dishonestly, especially for one's own use, to steal | 35 | |
| 153497891 | miscreant | (n) villain (adj) villainous | 36 | |
| 153497892 | misnomer | (n) a wrong name of something, or the use of a wrong name | 37 | |
| 153497893 | modicum | (n) a bit, a small quantity (usually used in a negative sense) | 38 | |
| 153497894 | molt | (v) to shed the out covering | 39 | |
| 153497895 | morass | (n) a marsh or bog, anything that bogs you down | 40 | |
| 153497896 | mordant | (adj) sarcastic, biting | 41 | |
| 153497897 | moribund | (adj) approaching death; depicts something that is on the verge of collapsing, going fast, on the way out | 42 | |
| 153497898 | motif | (n) the them of a work of art, usually recurring | 43 | |
| 153497899 | munificent | (adj) describes anything or anyone extremely generous, bountiful, lavish | 44 | |
| 153497900 | nadir | (n) the lowest point | 45 | |
| 153497901 | nascent | (adj) just beginning to exist | 46 | |
| 153497902 | nebulous | (adj) hazy, indistinct, foggy | 47 | |
| 153497903 | nefarious | (adj) wicked, execrable | 48 | |
| 153497904 | nemesis | (n) downfall or undoing. Can also denote someone's unbeatable rival | 49 | |
| 153497905 | nihilism | (n) a philosophy that preaches the total rejection of all restraint, all laws, all social and political institutions | 50 | |
| 153587758 | nirvana | (n) perfect bliss, the state of freedom from all the pain and suffering of the world; state attained through the extinction of one's personal passions and delusions | 51 | |
| 153587759 | nomenclature | (n) a system of names such as those used in a particular branch of science, philosophy, art, ect. | 52 | |
| 153587760 | non sequitur | (n) it does not follow. describing an unwarranted, unsupported conclusion, a statement made as though logically connected with what has gone before. but which in reality has nothing to do with it | 53 | |
| 153587761 | nostrum | (n) a quack medicine, a panacea, a pet scheme recommended for the cure of the ills of the world | 54 | |
| 153587762 | noxious | (adj) harmful, physically or morally | 55 | |
| 153587763 | obeisance | (n) homage, deep respect. to make a gesture of deep respect | 56 | |
| 153587764 | obfuscate | (v) to make something obscure, to becloud it | 57 | |
| 153587765 | oblivion | (n) active: describing the state of forgetting. having forgotten, being unaware. oblivious. unmindful passive: describing the state of being forgotten | 58 | |
| 153587766 | obloquy | (n) disgrace and bad repute resulting from public discredit or denunciation; censure | 59 | |
| 153587767 | obtrude | (v) to force something or oneself on others | 60 | |
| 153587768 | obtrusive | (adj) describes people who obtrude themselves and their opinions on others, disagreeably noticeable | 61 | |
| 153587769 | obtuse | (adj) slow-witted, insensitive, thick-skinned, and thick-headed, does not get the point | 62 | |
| 153587770 | obviate | (v) to make something unecessary, to make it possible to do without; often followed by the necessity of | 63 | |
| 153587771 | occlude | (v) to close. to stop up | 64 | |
| 153587772 | odious | (adj) hateful | 65 | |
| 153587773 | omniscient | (adj) describes people who know everything, have an amazingly wide fund of information | 66 | |
| 153587774 | omnivorous | (adj) eat both meat and plants; an omnivorous reader is one who reads just about anything that comes his way | 67 | |
| 153587775 | onerous | (adj) burdensome | 68 | |
| 153587776 | onomatopoetic | (adj) describes words that sound like what they mean | 69 | |
| 153587777 | onomatopoeia | (adj) describes the creation of a word formed from sounds like what they mean | 70 | |
| 153587778 | opprobrium | (n) describes disgrace or infamy suffered as a result of shameful conduct | 71 | |
| 154024975 | ordure | (n) dung, excrement; by extension. anything disgusting or degrading | 72 | |
| 154024976 | ostracize | (v) to exclude someone from society or companionship, often the fate of those convicted of a heinous crime | 73 | |
| 154024977 | otiose | (adj) idle; at leisure; futile, useless | 74 | |
| 154024978 | paean | (n) a song of praise, any lavish expression of praise or joy | 75 | |
| 154024979 | palliative | (n) relieves without curing, not really doing a good job | 76 | |
| 154024980 | panache | (n) verve, flair, sytle, dash. flamboyance, to have an air about you | 77 | |
| 154024981 | panegyric | (n) a speech or article in praise of someone or something | 78 | |
| 154024982 | panoply | (n)complete magnificent outfit, a splendid display, describes any glittering covering | 79 | |
| 154024983 | pantheon | (n) describes a preeminent group, those most highly esteemed. Inlcudes any public building housing the remains of a nation's ullustrious heroes. or the illustrious group itself | 80 | |
| 154024984 | paradox | (n) any self-contradictory statement or contradiction | 81 | |
| 154024985 | pariah | (n) outcast, a person rejected by society or his immediate circle. They suffer the sting of social ostracism | 82 | |
| 154073828 | parlous | (adj) rather self-conscious literary word. appears to be a substitute for perilous-involving or full of grave risk; hazordous | 83 | |
| 154073829 | parochial | (adj) describes people and outlooks that are narrow, restricted. | 84 | |
| 154073830 | paroxysm | (n) a violent outburst | 85 | |
| 154073831 | pastoral | (adj) rustic, bucolic, evokes the idyllic charm and serenity of a shepherd's life | 86 | |
| 154073832 | patent | (adj) obvious, exposed to view | 87 | |
| 154073833 | pathological | (adj) caused by disease, covers any condition caused by disease, whether of mind or body | 88 | |
| 154073834 | pathos | (n) the quality in human experience or any art form that evokes compassion | 89 | |
| 154073835 | patrician | (n) an aristocrat (adj) aristocratic, highborn, characteristic of aristocrats | 90 | |
| 154073836 | paucity | (n) scarcity, poor supply | 91 | |
| 154073837 | pedant | (n) a person who shows off his learning, a nitpicker who insists on strict adherence to formal rules and overemphasizes minor details | 92 | |
| 154073838 | pedestrian | (adj) commonplace, dull, unimaginative | 93 | |
| 154073839 | pejorative | (adj) disparaging, belittling (n) covers any word or expression that disparages, belittles, talks down, puts down, badmouths someone or something | 94 | |
| 154073840 | penchant | (n) an inclination, strong liking | 95 | |
| 154073841 | penultimate | (adj) next to last | 96 | |
| 154073842 | perfidious | (adj) faithless, disloyal, treacherous | 97 | |
| 154073843 | perfunctory | (adj) describes anything done routinely, as a duty, without interest or enthusiasm | 98 | |
| 154073844 | peripatetic | (adj) people who travel about from place to place | 99 | |
| 154073845 | peripheral | (adj) describes anything touching upon the incidental rather than the essential aspects of a subject | 100 | |
| 154073846 | pernicious | (adj) very injurious | 101 | |
| 154073847 | perspicacious | (adj) discerning, gifted with keen insight | 102 | |
| 154073848 | peruse | (v) to read through something carefully. to go over every word of it | 103 | |
| 154073849 | pervasive | (adj) spreading about, like an odor you can't get away from or dampness that seeps into every part of your house or your bones | 104 | |
| 154084965 | petulant | (adj) unjustifiably impatient, prone to irritation over trifles, easily annoyed | 105 | |
| 154084966 | philistine | (n)(adj) a lowbrow. one who not only lacks culture and is smugly indifferent to it, but tends to attack it. | 106 | |
| 154084967 | placebo | (n) name given to a substance prescribed by a doctor as though it were medicine, which in fact ahs no medicinal effect, and is given either for its psychological effect in humoring a patient, or in controlled experiment to test a real medicine | 107 | |
| 154084968 | placid | (adj) calm, serene, tranquil | 108 | |
| 154084969 | plaintive | (adj) expresses sorrow, grief, or melancholy, or sounds sorrowful | 109 | |
| 154084970 | plangent | (adj) describes anything that resounds in a mournful way | 110 | |
| 154084971 | platitude | (n) a trite remark | 111 | |
| 154133642 | ponderous | (adj) 1. can apply to anything heavy or unwieldy 2. can apply to things like speeches and writings that are labored | 112 | |
| 154133643 | pontificate | (v) to speak pompously, hold forth in a dogmatic way | 113 | |
| 154133644 | portend | (v) to foreshadow | 114 | |
| 154133645 | portmanteau | (n) a traveling bag of a special sort; indicates a word that results from the blending of two other words, like brunch | 115 | |
| 154133646 | pragmatic | (adj) activities, especially approaches, that deal with situations from a practical point of view | 116 | |
| 154133647 | prate | (v) to babble, to talk too much | 117 | |
| 154133648 | prattle | (v) to babble, chatter away, sometimes used as a noun, as in the prattle of little children | 118 | |
| 154133649 | precipitate | (adj) 1. headlong 2. hasty 3. sudden 4. rash (v) to hasten, bring about prematurely | 119 | |
| 154133650 | precipitous | (adj) very steep | 120 | |
| 154141330 | prescience | (n) foreknowledge | 121 | |
| 154141331 | presentiment | (n) a feeling that something is about to happen, with the implication that the something is bad or evil; a foreboding | 122 | |
| 154141332 | prestidigitator | (n) magicians, especially those practicing sleight of hand; to indicate great or surprising skill | 123 | |
| 154141333 | prevaricate | (v) to lie, to speak evasively; it covers the making of equivocal or evasive statement for the purpose of misleading | 124 | |
| 154141334 | proclivity | (n) an inclination, tendency or proneness to it | 125 | |
| 154141335 | procreate | (v) to beget (offspring), to generate | 126 | |
| 154141336 | prodigal | (adj) 1. recklessly extravagant, wasteful 2. lavish 3. profuse, abundant (n) one who is prodigal | 127 | |
| 154141337 | prodigious | (adj) enormous or amazing, marvelous | 128 | |
| 154150052 | profligate | (adj) 1. utterly immoral 2. recklessly extravagant | 129 | |
| 154150053 | prognosis | (n) forecast, prediction | 130 | |
| 154150054 | prognosticate | (v) to forecast | 131 | |
| 154150055 | proliferate | (v) to multiply, spread; literally, to grow by multiplication of parts; to expand | 132 | |
| 154150056 | prolific | (adj) describes anyone or anything producing great quantities, such as a prolific apple tree | 133 | |
| 154150057 | prolix | (adj) wordy and tedious, long-winded | 134 | |
| 154150058 | propitious | (adj) to be favorable to something | 135 | |
| 154150059 | proprietary | (adj) has to do w/ ownership; a special use is to describe articles made and sold by a particular company, usually under a patent or a trademark or both | 136 | |
| 154150060 | prosaic | (adj) commonplace, dull, uninspired, uninspiring, humdrum | 137 | |
| 154167548 | proselytize | (v) to convert someone to a new religion, political party, school of thought, to recruit | 138 | |
| 154167549 | prurient | (adj) those who have, or are easily susceptible to, lewd thoughts | 139 | |
| 154167550 | puckish | (adj) impish, mischievous, whimsical | 140 | |
| 154167551 | puerile | (adj) childish, immature and silly | 141 | |
| 154167552 | pugnacious | (adj) belligerent, always ready for a fight, quarrelsome | 142 | |
| 154167553 | pulchritude | (n) beauty, found often in the phrase feminine pulchritude | 143 | |
| 154167554 | purgative | (adj) cleansing (n) cathartic or laxative or any medicine that has that effcet | 144 | |
| 154167555 | purloin | (v) to steal or filch | 145 | |
| 154167556 | pusillanimous | (adj) cowardly, timid, afraid of his own shadow | 146 | |
| 154195027 | putative | (adj) the equivalent of "thought to be, generally regarded as, supposed. | 147 | |
| 154195028 | quaff | (v) to drink heartily | 148 | |
| 154195029 | quarry | (n) describes a hunted animal, fish, flesh or fowl; signifies anything hunted | 149 | |
| 154195030 | quash | (v) to annul; to suppress or quell | 150 | |
| 154195031 | quaver | (v) 1. to tremble 2. to sing or speak tremulously 3. to trill | 151 | |
| 154195032 | quay | (n) wharf; a strengthened bank of man-made stretch of stone along a waterway for the loading and unloading of ships | 152 | |
| 154195033 | queue | (n) denotes a line of people waiting to take their turn (v) to form a line while waiting turn | 153 | |
| 154195034 | quiescent | (adj) rest, inactive | 154 | |
| 154195035 | quintessence | (n) the essential part; its embodiment | 155 | |
| 154195036 | quixotic | (adj) impractical, visionary | 156 | |
| 154195037 | rambunctious | (adj) extremely boisterous, hard to manage; noisy and overactive | 157 | |
| 154195038 | rancor | (n) bitter, ranking resentment and ill will | 158 | |
| 154195039 | rankle | (v) to cause lasting, bitter resentment and annoyance | 159 | |
| 154195040 | rapacious | (adj) greedy, grasping, ready to seize whatever he can | 160 | |
| 154195041 | rapt | (adj) absorbed and enrapturedre | 161 | |
| 154195042 | recondite | (adj) hard to understand, profound, requiring high intelligence to grasp | 162 | |
| 154195043 | reconnoiter | (v) to express the idea of exploring any situation where advance info might be useful | 163 | |
| 154195044 | rectify | (v) to correct something, to put it right | 164 | |
| 154195045 | rectitude | (n) righteousness, the strict observance of integrity and aherence to a high moral code | 165 | |
| 154195046 | redolent | (adj) smelling of | 166 | |
| 154195047 | regale | (v) to entertain someone lavishly, to amuse or delight him | 167 | |
| 154195048 | rejoinder | (n) to answer to a reply | 168 | |
| 154195049 | remand | (v) to order back | 169 | |
| 154195050 | remonstrate | (v) to plead in protest against something, presenting arguments in opposition to something | 170 | |
| 154195051 | renegade | (n) one who deserts his own party, group, country, ect to join another, usually the enemy or rival | 171 |
