WORDS TO LIVE BY

sherrhonda D. (United States of America)
These are vocabulary words from the book Lily B. On the Brink of Love by Elizabeth Cody Kimmel (youth fiction)
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  1. acidulous
    being sour to the taste
  2. acrimonious
    marked by strong resentment or cynicism
  3. bilious
    relating to a digestive juice secreted by the liver
  4. cantankerous
    stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate
  5. caustic
    capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action
  6. contemporaneously
    during the same period of time
  7. contumelious
    arrogantly insolent
  8. conundrum
    a difficult problem
  9. derisive
    expressing contempt or ridicule
  10. disparage
    express a negative opinion of
  11. excoriate
    express strong disapproval of
  12. hyperbole
    extravagant exaggeration
  13. infantilism
    infantile behavior in mature persons
  14. malaise
    a feeling of mild sickness or depression
  15. maleficent
    harmful or evil in intent or effect
  16. mordant
    harshly ironic or sinister
  17. opprobrious
    expressing offensive reproach
  18. persnickety
    characterized by excessive attention to trivial details
  19. perspicacious
    mentally acute or penetratingly discerning
  20. perspicuous
    transparently clear; easily understandable
  21. plethora
    extreme excess
  22. quixotic
    not sensible about practical matters
  23. resplendent
    having great beauty
  24. supercilious
    having or showing arrogant superiority
  25. termagant
    a scolding, nagging, bad-tempered woman
  26. vituperative
    marked by harshly abusive criticism
Created on Sun Jun 19 16:59:01 EDT 2011

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