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  1. nuance
    a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude
  2. nudge
    push against gently
  3. nugatory
    of no real value
  4. nurture
    provide with nourishment
  5. oath
    a solemn promise regarding your future acts or behavior
  6. obdurate
    stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing
  7. obedient
    dutifully complying with the commands of those in authority
  8. obeisance
    bending the head or body in reverence or submission
  9. obfuscate
    make obscure or unclear
  10. obligatory
    required by compulsion or convention
  11. obliging
    showing a cheerful willingness to do favors for others
  12. oblique
    slanting or inclined in direction or course or position
  13. obliterate
    remove completely from recognition or memory
  14. oblivious
    lacking conscious awareness of
  15. obloquy
    state of disgrace resulting from public abuse
  16. obscure
    not clearly understood or expressed
  17. obsequious
    attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery
  18. obsess
    be preoccupied with something
  19. obstinate
    refusing to change one's mind or ways; difficult to convince
  20. obstreperous
    noisily and stubbornly defiant
  21. obstruct
    block passage through
  22. obtuse
    of an angle, between 90 and 180 degrees
  23. obviate
    do away with
  24. occult
    supernatural forces and events and beings collectively
  25. odium
    hate coupled with disgust
  26. offbeat
    strikingly unconventional
  27. offhand
    with little or no preparation or forethought
  28. officious
    intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner
  29. offish
    lacking cordiality; unfriendly
  30. off-key
    inaccurate in pitch
  31. ominous
    threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
  32. omniscient
    knowing, seeing, or understanding everything
  33. onerous
    burdensome or difficult to endure
  34. opaque
    not transmitting or reflecting light or radiant energy
  35. opine
    express one's view openly and without fear or hesitation
  36. opportune
    suitable or advantageous especially for a particular purpose
  37. opprobrious
    expressing offensive reproach
  38. oration
    an instance of formal speaking
  39. orient
    the eastern hemisphere
  40. original
    preceding all others in time
  41. orthodox
    adhering to what is commonly accepted
  42. oscillate
    move or swing from side to side regularly
  43. ossify
    become bony
  44. ostentatious
    intended to attract notice and impress others
  45. ostracize
    expel from a community or group
  46. oust
    remove from a position or office
  47. outgoing
    at ease in talking to others
  48. outlandish
    noticeably or extremely unconventional or unusual
  49. outmaneuver
    defeat by more skillful maneuvering
  50. outset
    the time at which something is supposed to begin
  51. outwit
    beat through cleverness
  52. overbearing
    having or showing arrogant superiority
  53. overlap
    extend over and cover a part of
  54. overt
    open and observable; not secret or hidden
  55. overture
    orchestral music at the beginning of an opera or musical
  56. oxymoron
    conjoined contradictory terms
  57. pacify
    ease the anger, agitation, or strong emotion of
  58. padding
    artifact consisting of soft or resilient material used to fill or give shape or protect or add comfort
  59. paean
    a hymn of praise
  60. painstaking
    characterized by extreme care and great effort
  61. palatable
    acceptable to the taste or mind
  62. palatial
    relating to or being a large and stately residence
  63. pall
    burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped
  64. palliate
    lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of
  65. pallid
    pale, as of a person's complexion
  66. palmy
    very lively and profitable
  67. palpable
    capable of being perceived
  68. palter
    be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead
  69. paltry
    contemptibly small in amount or size
  70. pan
    shallow container made of metal
  71. panache
    distinctive and stylish elegance
  72. pandemic
    existing everywhere
  73. pandemonium
    a state of extreme confusion and disorder
  74. panegyric
    formally expressing praise
  75. panoramic
    as from an altitude or distance
  76. parable
    a short moral story
  77. paradigm
    a standard or typical example
  78. paradise
    any place of complete bliss and delight and peace
  79. paradox
    a statement that contradicts itself
  80. paragon
    a perfect embodiment of a concept
  81. paramount
    most important or impactful
  82. paranoid
    suffering from delusions of persecution or grandeur
  83. paraphrase
    express the same message in different words
  84. parch
    cause to wither from exposure to heat
  85. parenthesis
    a punctuation mark used to enclose textual material
  86. pariah
    a person who is rejected from society or home
  87. parity
    functional equality
  88. parody
    a composition that imitates or misrepresents a style
  89. paroxysm
    a sudden uncontrollable attack
  90. parrot
    a brightly colored tropical bird with a hooked beak
  91. parry
    impede the movement of
  92. parsimonious
    excessively unwilling to spend
  93. partial
    being or affecting only a segment
  94. particularize
    be specific about
  95. partisan
    a fervent and even militant proponent of something
  96. pastiche
    a work of art that imitates the style of some previous work
  97. partition
    separation by the creation of a boundary that divides
  98. patent
    a document granting an inventor sole rights to an invention
  99. pathological
    relating to the study of diseases
  100. patina
    a fine coating of oxide on the surface of a metal
Created on Mon Sep 18 00:39:26 EDT 2023 (updated Mon Sep 18 00:40:07 EDT 2023)

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