calm | ||
unemotional; serious | ||
indifferent to pleasure or pain; impassive | ||
to express strong disapproval of; denounce | ||
to cause to be doubted | ||
to speak of in a slighting way or negatively; to belittle | ||
describing words or phrases that belittle or speak negatively of someone | ||
the act of passing off the ideas or writing of another as one's own | ||
to make vicious statements about | ||
rudely abrupt | ||
bitingly sarcastic or witty | ||
quarrelsome; unruly | ||
unable to be reformed | ||
an ungrateful person | ||
insulting in manner or speech | ||
known widely and usually unfavorably; infamous | ||
combative; belligerent | ||
worthy of blame | ||
having a harmful effect; injurious | ||
mutual hatred or ill-will | ||
hatefully evil' abominable | ||
wrongdoing, misconduct | ||
extreme ill-will or spite | ||
rotten | ||
hateful; marked by deep-seated ill-will | ||
poisonous | ||
characteristic of an earlier period; old-fashioned | ||
worn out through overuse; trite | ||
referring to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned | ||
no longer in use; old-fashioned | ||
without decoration; strict | ||
the state or quality of being average; of moderate to low quality | ||
commonplace; ordinary | ||
extremely dull | ||
unimaginative; dull | ||
not migratory; settled | ||
anxiety or fear about the future | ||
something that indicates what is to come; a forerunner | ||
menacing; threatening | ||
a feeling about the future | ||
timid; fearful about the future | ||
uncertainty; apprhension | ||
introducing something new | ||
lacking sophistication | ||
coming into existence; emerging | ||
strikingly new or unusual | ||
a beginner | ||
sincerity; openness | ||
open and sincere in expression; straightforward | ||
describing a dry, rainless climate | ||
a widespread fire | ||
of or occuring in the night | ||
producing a deep or full sound | ||
describing a large amount of something | ||
large in scope or content | ||
plentiful; having a large quantity | ||
spread or flowing throughout | ||
dispersed throughout | ||
enormous | ||
abundantly supplied; filled to capacity | ||
commendable; worhthy of imitation | ||
to consider perfect | ||
giving praise | ||
of chief concern or importance | ||
highly respected | ||
to make an itemized list of | ||
done or achieved with little effort; easy | ||
possessing careful attention to detail; difficult to please | ||
a group organized by rank | ||
extremely careful and precise | ||
practical | ||
able to pay one's debts | ||
removed or disassociated from (friends, family, or homeland) | ||
not applied to actual objects | ||
something out of place in time or sequence | ||
the attribution of humanlike characteristics to inanimate objects, animals, or forces of nature | ||
defense of an idea | ||
equipment; a group of machines | ||
a grammar construction in which a non (or noun phrase) is placed with another as an explanation | ||
a perfect example; an original pattern or model | ||
easily broken when subjected to pressure | ||
an inversion in the second of two parallel phrases | ||
making gestures while speaking | ||
existing only as an assumption or speculation | ||
a word book describing language with definitions; a dictionary | ||
a type of figurative language in which one term is substituted for another term with which it is clearly associated | ||
an apparent contradiction of terms | ||
statement of high praise | ||
an example or model | ||
a grammar construction in which two identical syntactic constructions are used | ||
expressing remorse for one's misdeeds | ||
long, complex, grammatically correct sentence | ||
causing great harm | ||
an unusual, observable event | ||
presenting favorable circumstances; auspicious | ||
logical; motivated by reason rather than feeling | ||
disdainfully or ironically humorous; harsh, bitter, or caustic | ||
a form of deductive reasoning: a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion | ||
when a part is used to signify the whole | ||
lacking application or practical application | ||
shortened; cut off |
Princeton 118-128
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