Five-dollar words

Mike D. (United States of America)
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  1. anthropomorphic
    suggesting human features for animals or inanimate things
  2. candor
    the quality of being honest and straightforward
  3. colligation
    the state of being joined together
  4. curt
    brief and to the point
  5. dissociative
    tending to produce dissociation
  6. dysphoric
    generalized feeling of distress
  7. foible
    a minor weakness or peculiarity in someone's character
  8. incessant
    uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing
  9. indolent
    disinclined to work or exertion
  10. ingenue
    an artless innocent young girl
  11. insolent
    marked by casual disrespect
  12. libel
    a false and malicious publication
  13. locus
    the scene of any event or action
  14. magnanimous
    noble and generous in spirit
  15. pejorative
    expressing disapproval
  16. pellucid
    transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity
  17. pragmatic
    concerned with practical matters
  18. pretentious
    creating an appearance of importance or distinction
  19. prodigal
    recklessly wasteful
  20. recursive
    characterized by repetition
  21. righteous
    morally justified
  22. sedulous
    marked by care and persistent effort
  23. sybarite
    a person addicted to luxury and pleasures of the senses
  24. syllabus
    a summary or outline of what will be covered in an academic course
  25. truculent
    defiantly aggressive
  26. vacuity
    the absence of matter
  27. sardonic
    disdainfully or ironically humorous
  28. derisive
    expressing contempt or ridicule
Created on Fri Sep 04 09:55:00 EDT 2009 (updated Wed Feb 19 08:30:15 EST 2014)

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