Verbal Advantage 10

Jayman (Iran)
Level 10 of Verbal Advantage
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  1. jejune
    lacking interest or significance or impact
  2. paucity
    an insufficient quantity or number
  3. minatory
    threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
  4. putative
    purported
  5. lucubration
    laborious cogitation
  6. troglodyte
    one who lives in solitude
  7. aleatory
    dependent on chance
  8. farrago
    a motley assortment of things
  9. cynosure
    something that strongly attracts attention and admiration
  10. badinage
    frivolous banter
  11. hieratic
    associated with the priesthood or priests
  12. saturnine
    bitter or scornful
  13. execrate
    curse or declare to be evil or anathema
  14. vitiate
    make imperfect
  15. venial
    easily excused or forgiven
  16. risible
    arousing or provoking laughter
  17. lionize
    assign great social importance to
  18. contretemps
    an awkward clash
  19. rodomontade
    vain and empty boasting
  20. hebetude
    mental lethargy or dullness
  21. sanguine
    confidently optimistic and cheerful
  22. deipnosophist
    someone skilled at informal chitchat
  23. frangible
    capable of being broken
  24. apodictic
    (of a proposition) necessarily true or logically certain
  25. fulminate
    cause to explode violently and with loud noise
  26. scarify
    puncture and scar (the skin), as for purposes or tribal identification or rituals
  27. hebdomadal
    of or occurring every seven days
  28. divagate
    lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking
  29. iatrogenic
    induced by a physician's words or therapy
  30. tergiversation
    falsification by means of vague or ambiguous language
  31. nacreous
    consisting of or resembling mother-of-pearl
  32. faineant
    disinclined to work or exertion
  33. hispid
    (of animals or plants) having stiff coarse hairs or bristles
  34. longanimity
    good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence
  35. sciolist
    an amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge
  36. propinquity
    the property of being close together
  37. factitious
    not produced by natural forces; artificial or fake
  38. susurrus
    the indistinct sound of people whispering
  39. sesquipedalian
    a very long word (a foot and a half long)
  40. protean
    taking on different forms
  41. crepitate
    make a crackling sound
  42. hortatory
    giving strong encouragement
  43. heliolatry
    the worship of the sun
  44. glabrous
    having no hair or similar growth; smooth
  45. pettifogger
    a person who uses unscrupulous or unethical methods
Created on Thu Dec 12 09:45:30 EST 2013 (updated Thu Dec 12 10:26:22 EST 2013)

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