6630314932 | aegis | the protection, backing or support of a particular person or organization | 0 | |
6630318071 | ambivalent | having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something | 1 | |
6630331978 | amorphous | lacking definite form, unorganized | 2 | |
6630335532 | antipathy | hatred, intense dislike | 3 | |
6630337417 | ardor | a strong feeling of eagerness or love | 4 | |
6630339227 | aural | of or relating to the ear or to the sense of hearing | 5 | |
6630341179 | autonomy | the state of existing or acting separately from others; the right or power of a country to govern itself | 6 | |
6630344717 | banal | unoriginal, trite, overused | 7 | |
6630346429 | cadence | regular beat or pattern (in poetic meter) the way a person's voice rises and falls when speaking | 8 | |
6630352521 | cajole | to persuade someone to do something or to give you something by making promises or saying nice things | 9 | |
6630355945 | capricious | given to sudden and unaccountable changes of mood or behavior | 10 | |
6630358853 | cynical | distrustful of others' motives, showing contempt for standard morality by taking advantage or others' scruples | 11 | |
6630363616 | denounce | to criticize harshly and publicly | 12 | |
6630366430 | dichotomy | division into two parts, mutually exclusive parts | 13 | |
6630369301 | dissipation | an excessive way of living, foolishly spending money on only pleasure | 14 | |
6630388080 | duplicitous | deceitful, two-faced | 15 | |
6630391152 | effusive | showing great emotion | 16 | |
6630392743 | epigram | short, witty, clever saying or poem | 17 | |
6630394398 | euphoric | intensely happy or confident | 18 | |
6630394399 | exhort | to strongly urge, to earnestly advise | 19 | |
6630396956 | farce | a humorous work about ridiculous situations or events | 20 | |
6630399742 | foreboding | a feeling that something bad will happen | 21 | |
6630403609 | impede | to interfere with or slow the progress of | 22 | |
6630405357 | impinge | to move into an area beyond acceptable limits, to gradually take or take over what is not yours | 23 | |
6630408813 | indolence | laziness | 24 | |
6630410890 | integral | necessary to make a whole complete, essential, fundamental | 25 | |
6630418035 | introspective | inward-looking, self-examining | 26 | |
6630419565 | labyrinthine | of, relating to, or resembling a labyrinth | 27 | |
6630423820 | laconic | using very few words | 28 | |
6630425805 | marginalize | to push to the side | 29 | |
6630427812 | oblique | not direct, not stated directly | 30 | |
6638805788 | palpable | easily seen, heard, perceived | 31 | |
6638807324 | pastoral | having to do with the country, set in the country | 32 | |
6638810726 | pathos | the quality of an event or especially a work of literature to evoke pity or sorrow | 33 | |
6638815929 | paucity | small in number, not enough | 34 | |
6638817758 | piety | reverence for God, (religious undertones) | 35 | |
6638819918 | polemic | a strong verbal or written attack on someone or something | 36 | |
6638822643 | rapscallion | rascal | 37 | |
6638829794 | recondite | dealing with intellectual subjects, little known, obscure | 38 | |
6638831556 | reproof | an expression of blame or disapproval | 39 | |
6638833000 | repudiate | to refuse or accept, or to refuse to associate with | 40 | |
6638834905 | sanguine | optimistic, always cheerful | 41 | |
6638835966 | sinister | evil, or giving the impression that something harmful or evil is happening or will happen | 42 | |
6638860739 | supercilious | behaving or looking as though one thinks one is superior to others | 43 | |
6638863322 | terse | using few words, to the point | 44 | |
6638865523 | timorous | nervousness, fear, lack of confidence | 45 | |
6638867475 | transcendent | going beyond ordinary limits, extraordinary, supreme | 46 | |
6638869506 | trope | a word or expression used in the figurative sense, a figure of speech | 47 | |
6638872885 | verbose | using too many words, overly wordy | 48 | |
6638874767 | verisimilitude | the appearance of being too true or real | 49 |
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