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| a declaration or statement | ||
| convincing; reasonable | ||
| intended to instruct | ||
| easily understood; clear | ||
| the art of using language effectively and persuasively | ||
| a judge who decides a disputed issue | ||
| to free from guilt or blame | ||
| not able to be denied or disputed | ||
| expressing remorse for one's misdeeds | ||
| free from blame | ||
| feeling hatred; scornful | ||
| exercising absolute power; tyrannical | ||
| arrogant; vainly proud | ||
| arrogantly domineering or overbearing | ||
| treating in a condescending manner | ||
| intricate; complex | ||
| difficult to comprehend | ||
| a state of uncertainty or perplexity | ||
| lazy | ||
| uninteresting; unchallenging | ||
| laziness; inactivity; dullness | ||
| inequality in age, rank, or degree; difference | ||
| describing flowery or elaborate speech | ||
| exhibiting a display of great wealth | ||
| profoundly moving; touching | ||
| emotionally unrestrained; gushy | ||
| conspicuously bad or offensive | ||
| wildly excited or active | ||
| given freely; unearned; unwarranted | ||
| favorable; promising | ||
| to calm or soothe | ||
| doubtful; of unlikely authenticity | ||
| not genuine | ||
| shrewd; clever | ||
| secretive | ||
| a brilliantly executed plan | ||
| not straightforward; crafty | ||
| a crafty tick | ||
| a clever trick used to deceive or outwit | ||
| done by secretive means | ||
| cunning | ||
| impulsive and unpredictable | ||
| to avoid making a definite statement | ||
| having little substance or strength; shaky; unsure, weak | ||
| hard-working | ||
| stubbornly persevering | ||
| courageous; fearless | ||
| stubborn; inflexible | ||
| to grow or increase rapidly | ||
| to absorb; to make similar | ||
| imposed as a duty; obligatory | ||
| easily shaped or formed; easily influenced | ||
| stubbornly adhering to unproved beliefs | ||
| long established; deep-rooted; habitual | ||
| all-powerful | ||
| difficult to capture, as in something actually fleeting | ||
| passing away with time; passing from one place to another | ||
| responsive; agreeable | ||
| playfully humorous | ||
| hinder; interfere with | ||
| shortened; cut off | ||
| having to do with the appreciation of beauty | ||
| a collection of literary pieces | ||
| one with an amateurish or superficial understanding of a field of knowledge | ||
| made up of a variety of sources or styles | ||
| describing a category or artistic endeavor | ||
| an artistic work that imitates the style of another work for comic effect | ||
| a tremendously skilled artist | ||
| the quality of being calm and even-tempered; composure | ||
| appropriateness of behavior | ||
| unemotional; serious | ||
| indifferent to pleasure or pain; impassive | ||
| to speak of in a slighting way or negatively; to belittle | ||
| describing words or phrases that belittle or speak negatively of someone | ||
| to make vicious statements about | ||
| rudely abrupt | ||
| bitingly sarcastic or witty | ||
| quarrelsome; unruly | ||
| unable to be reformed | ||
| insulting in manner or speech | ||
| combative; belligerent | ||
| worthy of blame | ||
| having a harmful effect; injurious | ||
| mutual hatred or ill-will | ||
| wrongdoing, misconduct | ||
| hateful; marked by deep-seated ill-will | ||
| characteristic of an earlier period; old-fashioned | ||
| worn out through overuse; trite | ||
| without decoration; strict | ||
| extremely dull | ||
| unimaginative; dull | ||
| something that indicates what is to come; a forerunner | ||
| timid; fearful about the future | ||
| uncertainty; apprehension | ||
| coming into existence; emerging | ||
| sincerity; openness | ||
| a widespread fire | ||
| dispersed throughout | ||
| enormous | ||
| abundantly supplied; filled to capacity | ||
| giving praise | ||
| highly respected | ||
| possessing careful attention to detail; difficult to please | ||
| practical | ||
| able to pay one's debts | ||
| something out of place in time or sequence | ||
| the attribution of humanlike characteristics to inanimate objects, animals, or forces of nature | ||
| a grammar construction in which a noun (or noun phrase) is placed with another as an explanation | ||
| a perfect example; an original pattern or model | ||
| a word book describing language with definitions; a dictionary | ||
| statement of high praise | ||
| an example or model | ||
| causing great harm | ||
| presenting favorable circumstances; auspicious | ||
| disdainfully or ironically humorous; harsh, bitter, or caustic |
