54456217 | halcyon | calm, peaceful, peaceful/happier days of the past | |
54456218 | somnolent | sleepy, sleep-inducing | |
54456219 | ruminate | to chew cud, to reflect carefully or chew over | |
54456220 | repose | the state of being at rest; extreme rest that is death | |
54456221 | equilibrium | state of mental balance; stable and calm | |
54456222 | equanimity | describe a state of mind; "the quality of being calm and even-tempered | |
54456223 | concord | harmony, total agreement | |
54456224 | sedate | calm, composed, or dignified in manner; to calm by means of drugs that has tranquilizing effect | |
54456225 | quiescent | quiet, peaceful or at rest | |
54456226 | sinecure | a job or similar position that provides a salary but little work | |
54456227 | exacerbate | aggravate, increase its severity | |
54456228 | exasperate | to irritate, annoy, to feel irritated or annoyed | |
54827112 | harass | to persistently torment or irritate, to wear out with repeated attacks | |
54827113 | provoke/provocative | to incite to action or feeling- feelings of anger or frustration/stimulating | |
54827114 | goad | to urge or prod | |
54827115 | prickly | marked by jabs or pricks; irritable or grouchy | |
54827116 | cantankerous | very touchy or ill tempered; disagreeable | |
54827117 | testy | impatient, exasperated, headstrong | |
54827118 | beleaguer | to persistently torment, figuratively surround with troops; pester someone | |
54827119 | irascible | ill-tempered, near but not quite in state of anger | |
54827120 | erudite | learned or scholarly | |
54827121 | recondite | not easily understood or very obscure | |
54827122 | pedagogue | school teacher, educator, having to do with educational matters | |
54827123 | pedant | ostentatiously learned and narrow minded | |
54827124 | didactic | intended to instruct; describe someone who teaches or moralizes excessively | |
54827125 | docent | specific kind of teacher-one who lectures a t a university without a regular faculty member, or tour guide who lectures at a museum | |
54827126 | tyro | a beginner in learning something | |
54827127 | savvy | well informed and perceptive | |
54827128 | edify | instruct morally, intellectually, or spiritually | |
54827129 | empirical | guided by practical experience or observation rather tn precepts or theory | |
54827130 | azure | light purplish blue, describe the sky on a sunny day | |
54827131 | vermilion | vivid red | |
54827132 | teal | dark bluish green; color of feathers found on head and wings of ducks | |
54827133 | crimson | ranges from bright red to vivid purplish red; describes color of blood | |
54827134 | cobalt | deep, vivid blue; ranges to a greenish blue | |
54827135 | puce | deep red to dark, grayish purple | |
54827136 | sepia | dark brown ink or pigment | |
54827137 | heliotrope | ranging from a brilliant violet to a deep reddish purple | |
54827138 | cerulean | brilliant sky blue to a deep blue to a bluish green; describes sky, sea, and occasionally leaves/fields | |
54827139 | chartreuse | apple greenish yellow color | |
54827140 | confection | sweet concoction like a piece of candy or cupcake; any kind of object that displays a splendid craft or skill | |
54827141 | treacly | cloyingly sweet; overly sentimental; literally sweet syrup | |
54827142 | cloying | something that is so overly sweet and rich that it tastes bad | |
54827143 | maudlin | tearful penitent; effusively (or gushily) and tearfully sentimental | |
54827144 | unctuous | affected or insincere earnestness; often acts too sweet | |
54827145 | dulcet | sweet or pleasing to the ear, melodious; describe a voice or musical sound | |
54827146 | euphonious | sweet or pleasing to the ear | |
54827147 | delectable | pleasing to the taste buds | |
54827148 | winsome | charming in a sweet or child like way | |
54827149 | saccharine | excessively sweet and overly sentimental; not being genuine | |
54827150 | acerbic | literally tats sour; describes a bitter character or cutting expression | |
54827151 | acrimonious | bitterness in someone's language, note, or even behavior | |
54827152 | astringent | sharp, penetrating, severe | |
54827153 | embittered | having bitter or negative feelings aroused by something | |
54827154 | acidic | high chemical acid content; describes a sour personality or a sharp humor | |
54827155 | captious | marked by a tendency to find a point out trivial faults | |
54827156 | vitriolic | scathing, bitterly cruel | |
54827157 | caustic | biting or cuttingly sarcastic, sting on an emotional level | |
54827158 | rancor | bitter, long lasting anger or resentment | |
54827159 | rancid | repugnant, nasty, describes food gone bad | |
54827160 | bravado | swaggering variety of pretended courage | |
54827161 | braggadocio | implies a cocky kind of bragging | |
54827162 | virago | women seen as bossy and domineering, or strong and courageous | |
54827163 | crescendo | increase in intensity or force | |
54827164 | libretto | little book, reserved to name the text of an oera or similar work | |
54827165 | farrago | mixture, hodgepodge,an olio, potpourri,... | |
54827166 | peccadillo | little sin, a small fault | |
54827167 | folio | large book | |
54827168 | rococo | describes styles or art and music characterized by ornamentation; describe anything ornate, elaborate, or complicated | |
54827169 | bibelot | names a decorative little object | |
54827170 | repertory | referring to a collection of plays/poems/songs that an acting company/performer is prepared to enact; it can refer to an skills or aptitudes of a person or group (figuratively) | |
54827171 | denouement | working out of all the factors that made the plot thicken, getting the kinks out of the thread of the plot | |
54827172 | thespian | an actor; "related to plays" | |
54827173 | proscenium | the area in a theater between curtain and audience, or orchestra pit | |
54827174 | tableau | actors "freezing" in position as if forming a painting for the audience | |
54827175 | protagonist | most important character in a play | |
54827176 | catharis | figurative cleansing of emotions such as pity and fear | |
54827177 | hubris | excess of pride that may lead to a downfall | |
54827178 | patos | a play or other work of art that arouses feelings of pity, concern, or tenderness in the viewer or reader | |
54827179 | farce | comic play characterized by improbable bur humorous elements; so absurd as to be laughable | |
54827180 | inchoate | anything that is in a very early state of development | |
54827181 | amorphous | something that lacks a defined shape or organization | |
54827182 | nebulous | cloudy | |
54827183 | intangible | lacks material shape or form; you can't touch it | |
54827184 | allusive | characterized by an indirect reference | |
54827185 | ambivalent | you can see equal merit in more than two opposing courses of action | |
54827186 | cryptic | describes that which has a hidden or a puzzled meaning | |
54827187 | sophistry | you seem good at arguing your case with superficially good reasoning that turns out to be full of holes | |
54827188 | ineffable | cannot be expressed in words; describe thinking about the abstract | |
54827189 | spurious | describes anything of "dubious origin" |
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