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  1. perspicacious
    mentally acute or penetratingly discerning
  2. sapient
    acutely insightful and wise
  3. zeal
    a feeling of strong eagerness
  4. chicanery
    the use of tricks to deceive someone
  5. wretched
    deserving or inciting pity
  6. volatile
    liable to lead to sudden change or violence
  7. viscous
    having a relatively high resistance to flow
  8. vex
    disturb, especially by minor irritations
  9. verbose
    using or containing too many words
  10. venerate
    regard with feelings of respect and reverence
  11. vacuous
    devoid of matter
  12. tyro
    someone new to a field or activity
  13. turpitude
    a corrupt or depraved or degenerate act or practice
  14. tractable
    easily managed
  15. tortuous
    marked by repeated turns and bends
  16. tirade
    a speech of violent denunciation
  17. diatribe
    thunderous verbal attack
  18. taciturn
    habitually reserved and uncommunicative
  19. tacit
    implied by or inferred from actions or statements
  20. specious
    plausible but false
  21. sedulous
    marked by care and persistent effort
  22. savant
    a learned person
  23. saturnine
    bitter or scornful
  24. sate
    fill to contentment
  25. sanguine
    confidently optimistic and cheerful
  26. sagacious
    acutely insightful and wise
  27. rarefy
    lessen the density or solidity of
  28. quiescence
    a state of quiet (but possibly temporary) inaction
  29. pusillanimous
    lacking in courage, strength, and resolution
  30. propitiate
    make peace with
  31. prodigal
    recklessly wasteful
  32. prevaricate
    be deliberately ambiguous or unclear
  33. pragmatic
    concerned with practical matters
  34. ponderous
    having great mass and weight and unwieldiness
  35. plethora
    extreme excess
  36. placate
    cause to be more favorably inclined
  37. phlegmatic
    showing little emotion
  38. petulant
    easily irritated or annoyed
  39. perfidious
    tending to betray
  40. pedantic
    marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning
  41. peccadillo
    a petty misdeed
  42. panegyric
    formally expressing praise
  43. ossified
    set in a rigid pattern of behavior, habits, or beliefs
  44. occlude
    block passage through
  45. obviate
    do away with
  46. obdurate
    stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing
  47. noisome
    causing or able to cause nausea
  48. nefarious
    extremely wicked
  49. mitigate
    lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of
  50. misnomer
    an incorrect or unsuitable name
  51. malevolent
    wishing or appearing to wish evil to others
  52. magnanimity
    nobility and generosity of spirit
  53. lugubrious
    excessively mournful
  54. lucid
    transparently clear; easily understandable
  55. loquacious
    full of trivial conversation
  56. leviathan
    the largest or most massive thing of its kind
  57. laudable
    worthy of high praise
  58. latent
    potentially existing but not presently evident or realized
  59. laconic
    brief and to the point
  60. irascible
    quickly aroused to anger
  61. intransigent
    impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, or reason
  62. insular
    relating to or characteristic of or situated on an island
  63. insipid
    lacking interest or significance or impact
  64. insensible
    barely able to be perceived
  65. innocuous
    not injurious to physical or mental health
  66. ingenuous
    lacking in sophistication or worldliness
  67. ingenious
    showing inventiveness and skill
  68. infer
    conclude by reasoning
  69. ineffable
    defying expression or description
  70. indelible
    not able to be forgotten, removed, or erased
  71. incorrigible
    impervious to correction by punishment
  72. inchoate
    only partly in existence; imperfectly formed
  73. improvidence
    a lack of prudence, care, or foresight
  74. imperious
    having or showing arrogant superiority
  75. impecunious
    not having enough money to pay for necessities
  76. iconoclast
    someone who attacks cherished ideas or institutions
  77. headlong
    with the upper or anterior part of the body foremost
  78. hapless
    unfortunate and deserving pity
  79. guileless
    innocent and free of deceit
  80. guile
    shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
  81. gossamer
    a gauze fabric with an extremely fine texture
  82. garrulous
    full of trivial conversation
  83. florid
    elaborately or excessively ornamented
  84. fervid
    characterized by intense emotion
  85. feign
    make believe with the intent to deceive
  86. extant
    still in existence; not extinct or destroyed or lost
  87. exorbitant
    greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation
  88. exculpate
    pronounce not guilty of criminal charges
  89. exacerbate
    make worse
  90. eulogy
    a formal expression of praise for someone who has died
  91. esoteric
    understandable only by an enlightened inner circle
  92. erudite
    having or showing profound knowledge
  93. equivocal
    open to two or more interpretations
  94. ephemeral
    anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day
  95. enigma
    something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained
  96. engender
    call forth
  97. enervate
    weaken physically, mentally, or morally
  98. endemic
    native to or confined to a certain region
  99. encomium
    a formal expression of praise
  100. emulate
    strive to equal or match, especially by imitating
  101. emollient
    a substance with a soothing effect when applied to the skin
  102. effluent
    water mixed with waste matter
  103. efficacy
    capacity or power to produce a desired result
  104. eclectic
    selecting what seems best of various styles or ideas
  105. dogmatic
    pertaining to a code of beliefs accepted as authoritative
  106. dogged
    stubbornly unyielding
  107. dissemble
    behave unnaturally or affectedly
  108. dispassionate
    unaffected by strong emotion or prejudice
  109. disparaging
    expressive of low opinion
  110. disabuse
    free somebody from an erroneous belief
  111. diffident
    showing modest reserve
  112. desiccate
    lacking vitality or spirit; lifeless
  113. descry
    catch sight of
  114. depredation
    an act of plundering and pillaging and marauding
  115. deprecation
    a prayer to avert or remove some evil or disaster
  116. deference
    courteous regard for people's feelings
  117. culpable
    deserving blame or censure as being wrong or injurious
  118. craven
    lacking even the rudiments of courage; abjectly fearful
  119. corporal
    affecting the body as opposed to the mind or spirit
  120. corporeal
    having material or physical form or substance
  121. conflagration
    a very intense and uncontrolled fire
  122. complaisant
    showing a cheerful willingness to do favors for others
  123. chicanery
    the use of tricks to deceive someone
  124. caustic
    capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action
  125. catalyst
    substance that initiates or accelerates a chemical reaction
  126. castigate
    inflict severe punishment on
  127. caprice
    a sudden desire
  128. cadge
    obtain or seek to obtain by wheedling
  129. buttress
    a support usually of stone or brick
  130. burgeon
    grow and flourish
  131. breach
    an opening, especially a gap in a dike or fortification
  132. bombast
    pompous or pretentious talk or writing
  133. blandishment
    flattery intended to persuade
  134. barefaced
    with no effort to conceal
  135. banal
    repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
  136. aver
    declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true
  137. audacious
    disposed to venture or take risks
  138. attenuate
    become weaker, in strength, value, or magnitude
  139. assuage
    provide physical relief, as from pain
  140. antipathy
    a feeling of intense dislike
  141. antediluvian
    of or relating to the period before the biblical flood
  142. anomalous
    deviating from the general or common order or type
  143. anachronism
    locating something at a time when it couldn't have existed
  144. ambrosial
    worthy of the gods
  145. ambiguous
    having more than one possible meaning
  146. aggrandize
    embellish; increase the scope, power, or importance of
  147. abscond
    run away, often taking something or somebody along
  148. aberrant
    markedly different from an accepted norm
Created on Sun Aug 26 20:30:01 EDT 2007 (updated Sun May 30 15:53:29 EDT 2010)

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