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| 44042275 | anonymous | having unknown or withheld authorship or agency, having an unknown or unacknowledged name | |
| 44042276 | cognomen | a name, especially a descriptive nickname acquired through usage | |
| 44042277 | denomination | the name of a class or group | |
| 44042278 | homonym | one of two or more words that have the same sound and often same spelling but difffer in meaning | |
| 44042279 | ignominy | great personal dishonor or humiliation | |
| 44042280 | metonymy | a figure of speech in which an attribute or commonly associated feature is used to name or designate something | |
| 44042281 | misnomer | a name wrongly or unsuitably applied to a person, place, or thing | |
| 44042282 | nomenclature | a system of names used in the arts and sciences | |
| 44042283 | nominal | existing in name only and not in actuality, insignificantly small | |
| 44042284 | renown | the quality of being widely honored and acclaimed; fame | |
| 44042285 | convivial | sociable, fond of feasting and good company; festive | |
| 44042286 | ebullience | the quality of expressing feelings or ideas in an enthusiastic and lively manner | |
| 44042287 | felicitous | well chosen; apt, yielding great pleasure | |
| 44042288 | irascible | prone to outburts of temper; easily angered | |
| 44042289 | placid | having an undisturbed surface or aspect; outwardly calm or composed | |
| 44042290 | querulous | given to complaining; peevish | |
| 44042291 | sardonic | scornfully mocking and derisive | |
| 44042292 | surly | sullenly ill-humored | |
| 44042293 | truculent | savage and cruel; fierce | |
| 44042294 | unctuous | characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness | |
| 44042295 | audacious | fearlessly daring and bold | |
| 44042296 | contumacy | obstinate or contemptuous resistance to authority; stubborn rebellion | |
| 44042297 | dour | marked by stubborn sternness or harshness; forbidding | |
| 44042298 | eclat | great brilliance, as of performance or achievement | |
| 44042299 | indefatigable | incapable of being fattigued; tireless | |
| 44042300 | irrresolute | undecided or uncertain as to action or procedure; vacillating | |
| 44042301 | obdurate | not giving in to persuasion; inflexible; hardened against feeling | |
| 44042302 | obsequious | excessively eager to serve, obey, or ingratiate oneself; fawning | |
| 44042303 | pertinacity | the quality or state of holding firmly to a purpose, belief, or opinion | |
| 44042304 | stoic | seeemingly indifferent to or unaffected by pleasure or pain; impassive | |
| 44042305 | benediction | an invocation of divine blessing; usually at the end of a religous service | |
| 44042306 | colloquium | an academic seminar on a broad field of study; usually led by a different lecturer at each meeting; conference | |
| 44042307 | edict | a formal proclamation, command, or decree | |
| 44042308 | elocution | the art of public speaking, emphasizing gesture, vocal production, and delivery | |
| 44042309 | grandiloquence | pompous or bombastic speech or expression | |
| 44042310 | indict | to accuse of a crime or other offense; charge | |
| 44042311 | interdict | to prohibit or forbid; place under a legal or ecclesiastical sanction | |
| 44042312 | interlocutor | someone who takes part in a conversation | |
| 44042313 | loquacious | very talkative; garrulous | |
| 44042314 | soliloquy | a literary or dramatic form of discourse in which a character reveals his or her thoughts in the form of a monologue without adressing a listener | |
| 44042315 | avarice | an extreme desire for wealth; greed | |
| 44042316 | insatiable | incapable of being fully satisfied | |
| 44042317 | inundate | to overwhelm as if with a flood; to cover with water and overflow | |
| 44042318 | myriad | constituting a very large, indefinate number; comprised of numerous diverse elements | |
| 44042319 | parsimony | unusual or excessive frugality; stinginess | |
| 44042320 | prodigal | recklessly wasteful; extravagant; lavish; profuse in giving | |
| 44042321 | replete | plentifully supplied; abounding; filled to satisfaction | |
| 44042322 | surfeit | an excessive amount; overindulgence in food or drink | |
| 44042323 | tumult | a disorderly, noisy movement of people | |
| 44042324 | voluminous | having great volume, fullness, size, or number | |
| 44042325 | deleterious | having a harmful effect; injurious | |
| 44042326 | despoil | to deprive of possessions or property by force; plunder; rob | |
| 44042327 | effectual | producing or sufficient to produce a desired result; fully adequate | |
| 44042328 | jettison | to discard as unwanted or burdensome | |
| 44042329 | obviate | to prevent by anticipating; make unnecessary | |
| 44042330 | pinnacle | the highest point, summit, peak | |
| 44042331 | raze | to tear down or demolish; level to the ground | |
| 44042332 | stultify | to render useless or inadequate; cripple | |
| 44042333 | surmount | to overcome an obstacle; conquer; to ascend to the top of | |
| 44042334 | wrest | to obtain by or as by pulling with violent twisting movements; to usurp forcefully | |
| 44042335 | extenuation | the act of attempting to lessen the seriousness of by providing a partial justification or excuse | |
| 44042336 | portent | an indication of something monumentous or calamitous about to occur; omen | |
| 44042337 | pretentious | making an extravagant outward show; ostentatious; claiming a position of distinction or merit | |
| 44042338 | retentive | having the ability to remember or store | |
| 44042339 | retinue | the attendants accompanying a high-ranking person | |
| 44042340 | sustenance | something, especially food, that supports life, health and good spirits; supplying the necessities of life | |
| 44042341 | tenable | capable of being defended or sustained logical, reasonable | |
| 44042342 | tenacious | holding firmly; persistant; cohesive and adhesive | |
| 44042343 | tenuous | having little substance; flimsy | |
| 44042344 | tenure | the period of holding something; such as property or an offfice; occupation | |
| 44042345 | adduce | to cite as an example or means of proof in an argument; bring forward for consideration | |
| 44042346 | confound | to cause (a person) to become confused; bewilder | |
| 44042347 | construe | to place a certain meaning on, interpret | |
| 44042348 | conundrum | a problem with no satisfactory solution; difficult and complicated problem | |
| 44042349 | cryptic | of a secret nature; mystifying | |
| 44042350 | equivocate | to use ambiguous and misleading language intentionally | |
| 44042351 | paradox | a seemlingly contradictory statement that may nonetheless be true; an assertion that is self-contradictory | |
| 44042352 | patent | obvious; plain | |
| 44042353 | perspicacity | acuteness of perception, discernment, or understanding | |
| 44042354 | rudimentary | of or relating to basic facts or principles that must be learned first; elementary; fundamental | |
| 44042355 | commodious | spacious; roomy | |
| 44042356 | finite | limited; having boundaries | |
| 44042357 | gamut | the complete range or extent of something; entire series of recognized musical notes | |
| 44042358 | incalculable | not capable of being conceived of orr determined; beyond calculation | |
| 44042359 | iota | an extremely small amount; bit | |
| 44042360 | lofty | of great height, towering; elevated in character; noble | |
| 44042361 | magnitude | greatness of size or extent; rank or position | |
| 44042362 | minuscule | very small, tiny | |
| 44042363 | picayune | of little value or importance; petty | |
| 44042364 | vestige | a visible trace, evidence, or sign of something that has once existed but exists or appears no more | |
| 44042365 | bedlam | a place or situation of noisy uproar and confusion | |
| 44042366 | chauvinism | a prejudiced belief in the superiority of one's group; fanatical patriotism | |
| 44042367 | draconian | exceedingly harsh; rigorous; cruel; law or code of extreme severity | |
| 44042368 | herculean | of or requiring unusual size, power, or difficulty | |
| 44042369 | martinet | a rigid military disciplinarian | |
| 44042370 | maudlin | weakly and excessively tearful; sentimental | |
| 44042371 | mesmerize | to capture and charm; enthrall; hypnotize | |
| 44042372 | silhouette | an outline of something that appears against a light background; shadow | |
| 44042373 | stentorian | extremely loud | |
| 44042374 | titanic | having great stature or enormous strength; huge; colossal | |
| 44042375 | concomitant | existing or occuring at the same timee; accompanying; attendant | |
| 44042376 | eon | an indefinately long period of time; an age; an eternity; longest divsion of geologic time | |
| 44042377 | extant | still in existence; not destroyed, lost or extinct | |
| 44042378 | hiatus | a gap or interrupttion in space, time, or continuity; break | |
| 44042379 | inure | to make used to something undesirable; especially by prolonged subjection; accustom; harden | |
| 44042380 | irrevocable | incapable of being changed, undone, or retracted | |
| 44042381 | millennium | a span of one thousand years; a hoped for period of great joy, prosperity, and justice | |
| 44042382 | perpetuity | the quality, state, or condition of being everlasting; time without end; eternity | |
| 44042383 | pristine | of, pertaining to, or typical of the earliest time or condition; primitive; original; remaining in a pure state; uncorrupted | |
| 44042384 | transience | the state or quality of passing into and out of existence; impermanence | |
| 44042385 | deplore | to feel or express strong disapproval of; to feel or express sorrow or regret | |
| 44042386 | disconsolate | beyond comfort, hopelessly sad | |
| 44042387 | distraught | agitated with anxiety; worried, crazed or mad | |
| 44042388 | halcyon | calm and peaceful, tranquil; prosperous or golden | |
| 44042389 | lachrymose | weeping or inclined to weep, tearful | |
| 44042390 | mercurial | being quick and changeable in character; fickle | |
| 44042391 | revel | to take great pleasure or delight in | |
| 44042392 | tirade | a long angry or violent speech, usually denouncing or crticizing someone or something | |
| 44042393 | trauma | an emotional shock that has a profound and lasting effect on the mind and functioning of an individual; a wound from a sudden physical injury | |
| 44042394 | vex | to irritate or annoy; bother; to baffle; puzzle | |
| 44042395 | abstract | concerned with designs or shapes that do not represent and recognizable person or thing | |
| 44042396 | aesthetic | off or pertaining to the sense of the beautiful; having a love of beauty | |
| 44042397 | avant-garde | a group, as of writers and artists, who are the leaders in inventing unconventional styles and new techniques | |
| 44042398 | eclectic | choosing what appears to be thee best from diverse sources, systems, or styles | |
| 44042399 | grotesque | chracterized by ludicrous or incongruous distortion; extravagant | |
| 44042400 | hackneyed | lacking in freshness because of overuse; trite | |
| 44042401 | perspective | the technique of representing objects on a flat surface so that they have a three dimensional quality; a view or vista; point of view | |
| 44042402 | representational | of or pertaining to realistic graphic portrayal in art; lifelike | |
| 44042403 | surrealistic | of or pertaining to the 20th century literary and artistic movement that attempts to express the workings off the subconscious by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtaposition of subject matter | |
| 44042404 | verisimilitude | the quality of appearing to be true or real; likelihood | |
| 44042405 | buffoon | a clown; jester; a person given to making undignified or rude jokes | |
| 44042406 | farce | a comic play in which exaggerations and improbabilities of plot and characterization are used for humorous effect | |
| 44042407 | irony | the use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning; an expression of utterance marked by a deliberate contrast between the apparent and the intended meanings | |
| 44042408 | jocular | given to or characterized by joking; fun-loving | |
| 44042409 | lampoon | a broad, comic piece that uses ridicule to attack a person, group, or institution | |
| 44042410 | levity | a light manner or attitude; especially when inappropriate, firvolity, flippancy | |
| 44042411 | parody | a comic imitation of a person, literary work, or style, that exaggerates the characteristics of the original to make it seem ridiculous | |
| 44042412 | raillery | good-natured teasing; banter | |
| 44042413 | regale | to delight or entertain; give pleasure to; to entertain lavishly | |
| 44042414 | satirical | of, relating to, or characterized by a sarcastic, mocking, or witty attack on human vice or folly, sometimes with the intent to bring about improvement | |
| 44042415 | coup d' etat | a sudden overthrow or alteration of an existing government by a small group | |
| 44042416 | elan | enthusiastic vigor and liveliness; zest; style/flair | |
| 44042417 | entree | the liberty to enter; admittance, the main course of a meal | |
| 44042418 | esprit de corps | a common feeling of devotion to a cause among the members of a group, team spiritm comradeship | |
| 44042419 | laissez faire | an economic doctrine that opposes governmental regulation of commerce beyond the minimum necessary for a free-enterprise system to operate according to its own economic laws | |
| 44042420 | nouveau riche | a person who has recently become rich, especially one who flaunts his/her wealth | |
| 44042421 | par excellence | superior; outstanding; of the highest degree | |
| 44042422 | potpourri | a combination of diverse elements; medley, a mixture of dried flower petals and spices used to scent the air | |
| 44042423 | savoir-faire | the ability to say and do the appropriate thing in any situation; tact | |
| 44042424 | tete-a-tete | a private conversation between two people; intimate privacy |
