9042757209 | bellicose (adj) | loud, argumentative, prone to fighting | 0 | |
9042757210 | austere (adj) | severe, stern, or cold in disposition or appearance | 1 | |
9042757211 | austerity (n) | a stern and serious quality | 2 | |
9042757212 | choleric (adj) | having or showing a quick/ hot temper or a cantankerous nature; easily angered | 3 | |
9042757213 | ambivalent (adj) | having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone; inconclusive or wavering | 4 | |
9042757214 | ambivalence (n) | the state of having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone | 5 | |
9042757215 | charlatan (n) | a person who pretends or claims to have more knowledge or skill than he or she possesses; a fraud | 6 | |
9042757216 | enigma (n) | a person or thing that is mysterious, puzzling, or difficult to understand | 7 | |
9042757217 | enigmatic (adj) | difficult to interpret or understand; mysterious; perplexing | 8 | |
9042757218 | languid (adj) | sluggish in character or disposition; lacking force or quickness of movement; lazy or lethargic; weak or faint from illness or fatigue | 9 | |
9042757219 | alacrity (n) | brisk and cheerful readiness; promptness in response; eagerness; willingness | 10 | |
9042757220 | prevaricator (n) | one who deviates from the truth | 11 | |
9042757221 | prevaricate (v) | to speak or act in an evasive way; dodge or sidestep (the issue) | 12 | |
9042757222 | ephemeral (adj) | lasting for a very short time; momentary; brief, transient, temporary | 13 | |
9042757223 | bemuse (v) | puzzle, confuse, or bewilder (someone); perplexed; mystified | 14 | |
9042757224 | bemusement (n) | the fact or condition of being bemused; puzzlement | 15 | |
9042757225 | disparaging (adj) | expressing the opinion that something is of little worth; derogatory | 16 | |
9042757226 | disparage (v) | regard or represent as being of little worth; ridicule; trivialize, badmouth | 17 | |
9042757227 | diabolic / diabolical (adj) | showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell | 18 | |
9042757228 | supercilious (adj) | behaving or looking as though one is superior to others; pompous; haughty and arrogant | 19 | |
9042757229 | aristocratic (adj) | of, belonging to, or typical of the aristocracy (noble, titles, elite/upper-class) | 20 | |
9042757230 | ethereal (adj) | extremely delicate and light in a way that seems to perfect for this world; unearthly; fragile | 21 | |
9042757231 | erroneous (adj) | wrong; incorrect; mistaken; faulty, flawed, or fallacious | 22 | |
9042757232 | arbitrary (adj) | subject to individual will or judgment without restriction; based on random choice or personal whim rather than any reason or system; contingent solely upon ones discretion | 23 | |
9042757233 | contrite (adj) | feeling or expressing remorse or penitence; affected by guilt; regretful; apologetic | 24 | |
9042757234 | malevolent (adj) | having or showing a wish to do evil to others; malicious; malignant; rancorous; vindictive | 25 | |
9042757235 | malevolence (n) | the state or condition of being malevolent | 26 | |
9042757236 | benevolent (adj) | having the disposition to do good; well-meaning and kindly; compassionate; altruistic; big-hearted; generous | 27 | |
9042757237 | benevolence (n) | the quality of being well meaning; kindness; goodwill; altruism; compassion; generosity | 28 | |
9042792458 | prosaic (adj) | having the style or diction of prose; lacking poetic beauty; insipid (lacking flavor), banal, and ordinary; unemotional and unpoetic | 29 | |
9042801221 | laudable (adj) | (of an action, idea, or goal) deserving praise and commendation; meritorious; estimable; commendable | 30 | |
9042820825 | syllogism (literary definition) | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion | 31 | |
9042828841 | syllogistic (adj) | subtle and crafty in argument; deductive in reasoning | 32 | |
9042831631 | incredulous (adj) | (of a person or his manner) unwilling or unable to believe something; skeptical; dubious | 33 | |
9042838002 | credulous (adj) | willing to believe or trust too readily, especially without proper or adequate evidence; gullible; naive | 34 | |
9042847950 | ubiquitous (adj) | present, appearing, or found everywhere; omnipresent; prevalent | 35 | |
9042855022 | serene (adj) | calm, peaceful, and untroubled; tranquil | 36 | |
9042860750 | serenity (noun) | the state of being calm, peaceful, and untroubled | 37 | |
9042872075 | teeming (v) | to be full of or swarming with; to be abound in; to be alive with; to be overrun by | 38 | |
9042880002 | drollery (n) | the act or an instance of jesting or burlesquing; whimsical humor | 39 | |
9042884813 | droll (adj) | curious or unusual in a way that provokes dry amusement; jocular and humorous | 40 | |
9042888227 | quixotic (adj) | exceedingly idealistic; unrealistic and impractical; of, characterized by, or suggestive of an idealized view of reality | 41 | |
9042901867 | disingenuous (adj) | lacking in frankness, candor, or sincerity; falsely or hypocritically ingenuous; insincere; dishonest; duplicitous and deceitful | 42 | |
9042917122 | obsequious (adj) | obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree; servile; fawning; submissive | 43 | |
9042925062 | sycophantic (adj) | behaving or done in an obsequious way in order to gain advantage; subservient; groveling (sycophant is the noun form) | 44 | |
9042938255 | morose (adj) | sullen and ill-tempered; sulky; gloomy; glum, melancholy, and doleful | 45 | |
9042945794 | erudite (adj) | having or showing great knowledge or learning; intellectual, scholarly, educated | 46 | |
9042955198 | sanguine / sanguineous (adj) | cheerfully optimistic, confident, or hopeful, especially in a bad or difficult situation | 47 | |
9042967823 | sardonic (adj) | grimly mocking or cynical; scornfully and bitterly sarcastic or disdainfully humorous | 48 | |
9042972899 | loathe (v) | to feel intense dislike or disgust for; to hate or detest | 49 | |
9042976494 | circumvent (v) | to find a way around (an obstacle; to avoid or bypass (defeat, failure, unpleasantness, etc.) by artfulness or deception; avoid by anticipating or outwitting | 50 | |
9042990550 | clandestine (adj) | kept secret or done secretively, especially because illicit (forbidden); private or surreptitous | 51 | |
9043008851 | surreptitous (adj) | kept secret, especially because it would not be approved of | 52 | |
9043012081 | dogmatic (adj) | asserting opinions in a doctrinaire or arrogant manner; opinionated; inclined to lay down principles as incontrovertible true; uncompromising; peremptory and overbearing | 53 | |
9043049305 | gratuitous (adj) | uncalled for; lacking good reason; unwarranted, senseless, unreasonable, or unjustified | 54 | |
9043053156 | gregarious (adj) | fond of company; sociable; affable and warm | 55 | |
9043061749 | capricious (adj) | given to sudden and unaccountable changes of mood or behavior; fickle; mercurial; unpredictable and inconsistent | 56 |
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