13848477870 | Acerbic | Sour or bitter in taste (bitter) | 0 | |
13848477875 | Audacious | Disposed to venture or take risks (adventurous) | 1 | |
13848477876 | Banal | Repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse (familiar, cliche) | 2 | |
13848477877 | Bellicose | Having or showing a ready disposition to fight (hostile) | 3 | |
13848477878 | Brusque | Marked by rude or peremptory shortness (snobby/ rude) | 4 | |
13848477879 | Bucolic | relating to the pleasant aspects of the countryside and country life | 5 | |
13848477882 | Capricious | Determined by chance or impulse rather than by necessity | 6 | |
13848477888 | Choleric | Characterized by anger | 7 | |
13848477889 | Churlish | Having a bad disposition; surly | 8 | |
13848477892 | Demure | Affectedly shy especially in a playful or provocative way (flirtatious) | 9 | |
13848477893 | Diffident | Showing modest reserve | 10 | |
13848477894 | Dilatory | Wasting time | 11 | |
13848477897 | Derisive | Expressing contempt or ridicule | 12 | |
13848477898 | Earnest | characterized by a firm, humorless belief in one's opinion | 13 | |
13848477899 | Ebullient | joyously unrestrained | 14 | |
13848477901 | Effusive | Uttered with unrestrained enthusiasm | 15 | |
13848477902 | Enervating | Causing weakness or debilitation | 16 | |
13848477909 | Facetious | Cleverly amusing in tone | 17 | |
13848477910 | Fatuous | Devoid of intelligence (dumb) | 18 | |
13848477914 | Gauche | Lacking social polish (unrefined uncultivated) | 19 | |
13848477915 | Inane | Devoid of intelligence (stupid) | 20 | |
13848477917 | Incensed | Angered at something unjust or wrong | 21 | |
13848477918 | Incisive | Demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions | 22 | |
13848477919 | Indignant | Angered at something unjust or wrong | 23 | |
13848477920 | Indolent | Disinclined to work or exertion (lazy) | 24 | |
13848477921 | Ineffable | Defying expression or description (astonishing) | 25 | |
13848477923 | Jejune | naive, simplistic, superficial OR boring, uninteresting | 26 | |
13848477924 | Jocund | Full of or showing high-spirited merriment (extremely happy) | 27 | |
13848477926 | Laudatory | Full of or giving praise | 28 | |
13848477927 | Loquacious | Full of trivial conversation (talkative) | 29 | |
13848477928 | Lugubrious | Excessively mournful (extremely sad) | 30 | |
13848477929 | Macabre | Shockingly repellent; inspiring horror | 31 | |
13848477931 | Miasmic | Filled with vapor (Mirage) | 32 | |
13848477932 | Mordant | Harshly ironic or sinister (rudely sarcastic) | 33 | |
13848477933 | Morose | Brooding and depressed | 34 | |
13848477934 | Myopic | Shortsighted; lacking imagination or foresight | 35 | |
13848477937 | Obsequious | Attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery (brown noser) | 36 | |
13848477938 | Odious | Unequivocally detestable | 37 | |
13848477940 | Omnipotent | Having unlimited power | 38 | |
13848477942 | Pedantic | Marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning | 39 | |
13848477943 | Pejorative | Expressing disapproval | 40 | |
13848477944 | Pernicious | Exceedingly harmful | 41 | |
13848477945 | Pithy | Concise and full of meaning (meaningful) | 42 | |
13848477947 | Poignant | Keenly distressing to the mind or feelings | 43 | |
13848477948 | Provocative | Serving or tending to excite or stimulate | 44 | |
13848477949 | Puerile | Displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity | 45 | |
13848477950 | Quizzical | Perplexed | 46 | |
13848477951 | Recondite | little known, abstruse (obscure) | 47 | |
13848477952 | Reticent | Reluctant to draw attention to yourself by talking (timid) | 48 | |
13848477953 | Reverent | Feeling or showing profound respect or veneration | 49 | |
13848477954 | Reflective | characterized by deep thought, thoughtful | 50 | |
13848477955 | Ribald | Humorously vulgar (crass) | 51 | |
13848477956 | Sardonic | Disdainfully or ironically humorous | 52 | |
13848477957 | Seductive | Tending to entice into a desired action or state | 53 | |
13848477959 | Specious | Plausible but false (false hope) | 54 | |
13848477960 | Succinct | Briefly giving the gist of something (summary) | 55 | |
13848477961 | Supercilious | Having or showing arrogant superiority to (pompous) | 56 | |
13848477962 | Timorous | Timid by nature or revealing timidity | 57 | |
13848477963 | Ubiquitous | Being present everywhere at once (over used) | 58 | |
13848477964 | Unctuous | Unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating (flattering) | 59 | |
13848477965 | Vehement | Marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions (extremely emotional) | 60 | |
13848477966 | Visceral | relating to deep inward feelings rather than to the intellect | 61 | |
13848477967 | Vitriolic | Harsh, bitter, or malicious in tone | 62 | |
13848477968 | Volatile | Liable to lead to sudden change or violence (vicious/ dangerous) | 63 | |
13848477969 | Zealous | Marked by active interest and enthusiasm (enthusiastic) | 64 |
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