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| 204271495 | Antipathy | strong or deep-rooted dislike; aversion | |
| 204271496 | Apocryphal | of doubtful authorship or authenticity | |
| 204271497 | Apotheosis | deification; glorification of a person or thing | |
| 204271498 | Arduous | difficult to do; laborious | |
| 204271499 | Askance | with a sideways glance; with suspicion, disapproval | |
| 204271500 | Asyndeton | act of leaving out usual conjunctions between coordinate sentence elements | |
| 204271501 | Auspicious | of good omen; boding well for future | |
| 204271502 | Bowdlerize | to remove passages considered offensive from "stuff" | |
| 204271503 | Calumny | a false, malicious statement meant to hurt another's reputation | |
| 204271504 | Cupidity | strong desire [esp. for wealth] | |
| 204271505 | Encomium | a formal expression of high praise; eulogy | |
| 204271506 | Expatiate | to speak or write in great detail; elaborate or enlarge | |
| 204271507 | Fatuous | complacently foolish or inane; silly, foolish | |
| 204271508 | Flaccid | hanging in loose folds or wrinkles; soft, and limp | |
| 204271509 | Gesticulate | to make or use gestures | |
| 204271510 | Ineffable | inexpressible, too overwhelming to be expressed or described in words | |
| 204271511 | Inimical | like an enemy; hostile, unfriendly | |
| 204271512 | Irascible | easily angered; quick-tempered | |
| 204271513 | Meticulous | extremely careful about details, finicky | |
| 204271514 | Obtuse | not sharp or pointed; slow to understand; not producing a sharp impression | |
| 204271515 | Plethora | the state of being too full; excess | |
| 204271516 | Polysyndeton | the use of several conjunctions in close succession, especially where some might be omitted (as in "he ran and jumped and laughed for joy"). It is a stylistic scheme used to slow the rhythm of prose and can add an air of solemnity to a passage. | |
| 204271517 | Proselytize | to convert to one's religion | |
| 204271518 | Ribald | characterized by coarse or vulgar joking or mocking [usually about "r"ex] | |
| 204271519 | Sedulous | working hard and steadily; diligent | |
| 204271520 | Somnambulist | one who sleepwalks or moves about in a trance like state | |
| 204271521 | Staid | resisting change; fixed | |
| 204271522 | Tractable | easily managed, taught, controlled | |
| 204271523 | Truculent | fierce, cruel, savage; rude, harsh scathing esp. speech or writing | |
| 204271524 | Unctuous | like oil, soap, grease to touch; characterized by smug smooth pretense of spiritual feeling in seeking to persuade; too suave or oily in speech or manner | |
| 204271525 | Untenable | that cannot be held, defended or maintained | |
| 204271526 | Verbose | using too many words, wordy, long-winded | |
| 204271527 | Vociferous | loud, noisy or vehement in making one's feelings known | |
| 204271528 | Anfractuous | full of windings and intricate turnings: TORTUOUS | |
| 204271529 | Ululate | to HOWL, to WAIL | |
| 204271530 | Pandy | British : to punish (a schoolboy) with a blow on the palm of the hand especially with a ferule | |
| 204271531 | Dandiprat | A dwarf or small boy; an insignificant or contemptible person. | |
| 204271532 | Logodaedalus | One who is cunning in words. |
