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  1. vituperative
    marked by harshly abusive criticism
  2. animadversion
    harsh criticism or disapproval
  3. artifice
    the use of deception or trickery
  4. ebullient
    joyously unrestrained
  5. cantankerous
    stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate
  6. fractious
    easily irritated or annoyed
  7. obstreperous
    noisily and stubbornly defiant
  8. obtuse
    of an angle, between 90 and 180 degrees
  9. invidious
    containing or implying a slight or showing prejudice
  10. inveigh
    complain bitterly
  11. insolent
    marked by casual disrespect
  12. indigent
    poor enough to need help from others
  13. acolyte
    a devoted follower or assistant
  14. imprimatur
    formal and explicit approval
  15. ascribe
    attribute or credit to
  16. austere
    of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor
  17. bumptious
    offensively self-assertive
  18. burgeon
    grow and flourish
  19. inveigle
    influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering
  20. corpulence
    the property of excessive fatness
  21. conceit
    the trait of being unduly vain
  22. deign
    do something that one considers to be below one's dignity
  23. desultory
    marked by lack of definite plan, purpose, or enthusiasm
  24. deleterious
    harmful to living things
  25. pernicious
    exceedingly harmful
  26. ostensible
    appearing as such but not necessarily so
  27. capricious
    determined by chance or impulse rather than by necessity
  28. diffidence
    lack of self-assurance
  29. dint
    force or effort
  30. discursive
    tending to cover a wide range of subjects
  31. beguiled
    filled with wonder and delight
  32. elysian
    relating to the abode of the blessed after death
  33. emendation
    a correction by emending
  34. callow
    young and inexperienced
  35. amend
    make revisions to
  36. engender
    call forth
  37. scourge
    something causing misery or death
  38. ennui
    the feeling of being bored by something tedious
  39. fastidious
    giving careful attention to detail
  40. eugenics
    the promotion of controlled breeding in human populations
  41. fodder
    coarse food composed of plants or leaves and stalks
  42. provender
    food for domestic livestock
  43. fulmination
    the act of exploding with noise and violence
  44. ignominious
    deserving or bringing disgrace or shame
  45. knavery
    lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing
  46. obdurate
    stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing
  47. contumacious
    willfully obstinate; stubbornly disobedient
  48. affable
    diffusing warmth and friendliness
  49. ineffable
    defying expression or description
  50. entranced
    filled with wonder and delight
  51. piety
    righteousness by virtue of being religiously devout
  52. invective
    abusive language used to express blame or censure
  53. plaintive
    expressing sorrow
  54. elegiac
    resembling or characteristic of a lament for the dead
  55. laconic
    brief and to the point
  56. livid
    furiously angry
  57. probity
    complete and confirmed integrity
  58. lugubrious
    excessively mournful
  59. maverick
    someone who exhibits independence in thought and action
  60. mordant
    harshly ironic or sinister
  61. nugatory
    of no real value
  62. odious
    extremely repulsive or unpleasant
  63. obloquy
    state of disgrace resulting from public abuse
  64. calumny
    a false accusation of an offense
  65. pastiche
    a work of art that imitates the style of some previous work
  66. pejorative
    expressing disapproval
  67. epithet
    descriptive word or phrase
  68. risible
    arousing or provoking laughter
  69. atonement
    the act of making amends for sin or wrongdoing
  70. perfidy
    an act of deliberate betrayal
  71. perfunctory
    hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough
  72. petulant
    easily irritated or annoyed
  73. plaintive
    expressing sorrow
  74. preclude
    make impossible, especially beforehand
  75. picaresque
    (of fiction) involving clever rogues or adventurers
  76. prize
    something given for victory or superiority in a contest or competition or for winning a lottery
  77. probity
    complete and confirmed integrity
  78. proclivity
    a natural inclination
  79. prodigal
    recklessly wasteful
  80. profligate
    unrestrained by convention or morality
  81. capricious
    determined by chance or impulse rather than by necessity
  82. propriety
    correct behavior
  83. pugnacious
    ready and able to resort to force or violence
  84. punctilious
    marked by precise accordance with details
  85. qualify
    prove capable or fit; meet requirements
  86. quixotic
    not sensible about practical matters
  87. raconteur
    a person skilled in telling anecdotes
  88. rebus
    a puzzle consisting of pictures representing words
  89. recalcitrant
    stubbornly resistant to authority or control
  90. recondite
    difficult to understand
  91. recrudescent
    the revival of an unfortunate situation after a period of abatement
  92. recumbent
    lying down; in a position of comfort or rest
  93. redolent
    having a strong pleasant odor
  94. refractory
    stubbornly resistant to authority or control
  95. remonstrate
    argue in protest or opposition
  96. repine
    express discontent
  97. reprobate
    a person without moral scruples
  98. repudiate
    refuse to acknowledge, ratify, or recognize as valid
  99. requite
    make repayment for or return something
  100. restive
    in a very tense state
  101. retinue
    the group following and attending to some important person
  102. ribald
    humorously vulgar
  103. risible
    arousing or provoking laughter
  104. sanctimony
    the quality of being hypocritically pious or devout
  105. sere
    having lost all moisture
  106. simper
    smile in an insincere, unnatural, or coy way
  107. slake
    satisfy, as thirst
  108. sophistry
    a deliberately invalid argument in the hope of deceiving
  109. specious
    plausible but false
Created on Wed May 13 21:54:57 EDT 2009

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