228010557 | Acuteness | Sharpness of perception | 0 | |
228010558 | Labyrinth | Like a maze; very convulted and intricate | 1 | |
228010559 | Auspicious | Favorable | 2 | |
228010560 | Imperious | Extremely overbearing | 3 | |
228010561 | Wan | Very pale & sickly | 4 | |
228010562 | Fugitive | A person who is elusive or hard to find; wandering | 5 | |
228010563 | Extant | Still in existence | 6 | |
228010564 | Quaint | Unusual in character or appearance | 7 | |
228010565 | Tome | A book that is a large volume | 8 | |
228010566 | Gauntless | Very thin; emaciated; angular | 9 | |
228010567 | Burnished | made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing | 10 | |
228010568 | Exigencies | urgent situations, pressing needs | 11 | |
228010569 | Vista | a distant view seen through an opening | 12 | |
228010570 | Depravity | moral corruption | 13 | |
228010571 | Unobtrusive | not readily noticeable, inconspicuous | 14 | |
228010572 | Tarry | (v.) to delay leaving; to linger, wait; to remain or stay for a while | 15 | |
228010573 | Affinity | a natural attraction or feeling of kinship | 16 | |
228010574 | Despondency | depression, dejection | 17 | |
228010575 | Enumerated | to mention separately as if in counting; name one by one; specify, as in a list | 18 | |
228010576 | Incurious | uninterested, lacking normal curiosity | 19 | |
228010577 | Erudite | scholarly | 20 | |
228010578 | Incantations | ritual recitation of verbal charms or spells to produce a magic effect | 21 | |
228010579 | Ominous | threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments | 22 | |
228010580 | Abase | lower; degrade; humiliate; make humble; make (oneself) lose self-respect | 23 | |
228010581 | Palliate | lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of | 24 | |
228010582 | Odious | deserving hate or contempt | 25 | |
228010583 | Implicit | implied though not directly expressed | 26 | |
228010584 | Antipathy | a strong dislike, hostile feeling | 27 | |
228010585 | Abstruse | difficult to understand | 28 | |
228010586 | Ethereal | characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy; heavenly | 29 | |
228010587 | Import | Relative importance. Significance | 30 | |
228010588 | Inextricable | not able to be disentangled | 31 | |
228010589 | Expiation | the act of atoning for sin or wrongdoing (especially appeasing a deity) | 32 | |
228010590 | Venerable | profoundly honored | 33 | |
228010591 | Zenith | The highest point overhead; peak | 34 | |
228010592 | Credibility | the quality of being believable or trustworthy | 35 | |
228010593 | Impute | To blame or to charge | 36 | |
228010594 | Malevolence | ill will or evil intentions | 37 | |
231550664 | replete | filled to capacity; abundantly supplied | 38 | |
231550665 | portent | a sign or forewarning | 39 | |
231550666 | calamity | a serious event causing distress or misfortune | 40 | |
231550667 | benign | not causing harm; of gentle disposition; beneficial | 41 | |
231550668 | foliage | leaves of a plant, leafage | 42 | |
231550669 | austerity | strict;stern; unadorned; ascetic | 43 | |
231550670 | obviated | makes unnecessary; prevents as a result of anticipating | 44 | |
231550671 | precipice | a very steep cliff or mass of rock; the brink of something dangerous | 45 | |
231550672 | derisively | scoffing at; mockery; ridicule | 46 | |
231550673 | propinquity | nearness;kinship | 47 | |
231550674 | blighted | destroyed or caused by decline or decay | 48 | |
231550675 | sedulous | very diligent; accomplishing with painstaking care | 49 | |
231550676 | deleterious | harmful, injurious, dangeroud | 50 | |
231550677 | incongruity | nonconformity, disagreement, incompatibility | 51 | |
231550678 | capricious | changing suddenly, fickle | 52 | |
231550679 | petulant | unreasonably irritable or ill-tempered | 53 | |
231550680 | precocity | exceptionally early in development or occurrence | 54 | |
231550681 | endowing | to provide with income or property, to supply with a talent or a quality | 55 | |
231550682 | primeval | ancient, relating to the earliest ages | 56 | |
231550683 | scintillating | sparkling, shining, or flashing | 57 | |
231550684 | loquacity | very talkative | 58 | |
231550685 | lamentation | the passionate and demonstrative activity of expressing grief | 59 | |
231550686 | misanthropy | hatred of mankind | 60 | |
231550687 | consecration | to make or declare sacred; blessing of something to make it holy | 61 | |
231550688 | forebode | v. To be an omen or warning sign of, especially of evil. | 62 | |
231550689 | sentinel | one who keeps guard as a sentry | 63 | |
231550690 | buoy | keep afloat, raise the spirits of, encourage | 64 | |
231550691 | solace | to comfort or to cheer | 65 | |
231550692 | prattle | meaningless sounds, babble | 66 | |
231550693 | estranged | separated; alienated | 67 | |
231550694 | mollified | appeased, calmed down | 68 | |
231550695 | pallor | extreme paleness usually relating to the face | 69 | |
231550696 | alloy | a substance that is a mixture of metals | 70 | |
231550697 | entreat | plead; ask earnestly | 71 | |
231550698 | vicissitude | a passing from one thing to another, change of luck | 72 | |
231550699 | duplicity | double-dealing, hypocrisy | 73 | |
231550700 | decorum | appropriate conduct, correct and proper behavior | 74 | |
231550701 | potentate | a monarch, very powerful ruler, sovereign | 75 | |
231550702 | gratuitous | given freely, unwarranted | 76 | |
231550703 | jocularity | jocular-jesting or joking jocularity-fun characterized by humor | 77 | |
231550704 | posterity | future generations, all descendants of a person | 78 | |
231550705 | effervescence | showing high spirits | 79 | |
231550706 | pomp | a showy or dignified display pompous-exaggerated show of dignity or self-importance; bombastic | 80 | |
231550707 | indefatigable | tireless, incapable of being fatigued | 81 | |
231550708 | audacity | excessive boldness, rashness, daring | 82 |
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