Mat Vocabulary Words - Adjectives

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ABJECT

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miserable, pitiful

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Synonyms: pathetic, lamentable, sorry

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ABSTEMIOUS

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marked by restraint, especially in the consumption of food or alcohol

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Synonyms: moderate, temperate, sparing

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ADROIT

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skillful, accomplished, highly competent

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Synonyms: admiration, flattery, accolade

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ANCILLARY

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accessory, subordinate, helping

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Synonyms: adjunct, additional, auxiliary, supplemental

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APOCRYPHAL

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of doubtful authorship or authenticity; not genuine, fictional

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Synonyms: erroneous, fictitious, fraudulent, false

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ARABLE

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suitable for cultivation

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Synonyms: farm-able, fertile

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ARCANE

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secret, obscure, known only to a few

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Synonyms: esoteric, mysterious

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ARCH

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mischievous, roguish

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Synonyms: impish, waggish, saucy, ironic

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ASCETIC

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self-denying, abstinent, austere

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Synonyms: continent, temperate, abstemious

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ASSIDUOUS

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diligent, persistent, hard-working

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Synonyms: industrious, steadfast, thorough

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AUGUST

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dignified, awe-inspiring, venerable

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Synonyms: grand, majestic, admirable, awesome

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BALEFUL

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harmful, with evil intentions

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Synonyms: dark, sinister

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BANAL

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trite, overly common

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Synonyms: hackneyed, shopworn, inane

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BENIGHTED

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unenlightened

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Synonyms: ignorant, unschooled, illiterate

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BLITHE

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joyful, cheerful; without appropriate thought

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Synonyms: glad, happy; carefree, insouciant

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BRUSQUE

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rough and abrupt in manner

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Synonyms: blunt, curt, gruff, rude, tactless

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BUCOLIC

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pastoral, rural

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Synonyms: rustic, country, agrarian

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CALLOW

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immature, lacking sophistication

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Synonyms: ingenuous, naive, artless

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CANNY

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smart, founded on common sense

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Synonyms: percipient, perspicacious, astute, shrewd

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CAPRICIOUS

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impulsive, whimsical, without much thought

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Synonyms: erratic, fickle, flighty, inconstant, wayward

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CHARY

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watchful, cautious, extremely shy

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Synonyms: wary, careful, sparing

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CHIMERICAL

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fanciful, imaginary, visionary, impossible

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Synonyms: illusory, unreal

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CHURLISH

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marked by a lack of civility or graciousness

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Synonyms: boorish, cloddish, clod-hopping, loutish, low-bred, rustic

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CLOYING

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sickly sweet, saccharine

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Synonyms: excessive, fulsome

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COGENT

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logically forceful, compelling, convincing

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Synonyms: persuasive, winning

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COLLOQUIAL

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characteristic of informal speech

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Synonyms: conversational, idiomatic, slangy

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CONSONANT

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consistent with, in agreement with

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Synonyms: accordant, compatible, congruous

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CONSUMMATE

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accomplished, complete, perfect

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Synonyms: thorough, exhaustive, ideal, flawless

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CONTRITE

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deeply sorrowful and repentant for a wrong

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Synonyms: regretful, apologetic, remorseful

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CONTUMACIOUS

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stubbornly disobedient

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Synonyms: insubordinate, factious, insurgent, mutinous, rebellious, seditious

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CONTUMELIOUS

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insolently abusive and humiliating

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Synonyms: impertinent, impudent, saucy

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DEFERENTIAL

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respectful and polite in a submissive way

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Synonyms: courteous, obsequious

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DIAPHANOUS

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allowing light to show through; delicate

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Synonyms: sheer, transparent, gauzy, translucent; tenuous

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DIDACTIC

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excessively instructive

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Synonyms: educational, improving, moralistic

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DILATORY

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slow, tending to delay

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Synonyms: sluggish, tardy, unhurried

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DISCURSIVE

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moving from topic to topic without order

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Synonyms: digressive, rambling, unfocused

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DISINTERESTED

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fair-minded, unbiased

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Synonyms: impartial, evenhanded, unprejudiced, dispassionate

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DISSONANT

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harsh and unpleasant sounding

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Synonyms: discordant, inharmonious

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DIURNAL

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daily

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Synonyms: daylight, daytime

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DOGGED

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stubbornly persevering

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Synonyms: tenacious, obstinate, pertinacious, determined, mulish

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DOGMATIC

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rigidly fixed in opinion, opinionated

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Synonyms: inflexible, dictatorial, doctrinaire, authoritative, obstinate

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DOLEFUL

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sad, mournful

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Synonyms: funereal, somber, lugubrious, dismal, woeful

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DOUR

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sullen and gloomy, stern and severe

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Synonyms: austere, strict, grave, solemn, somber

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DROLL

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amusing in a wry, subtle way

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Synonyms: witty, comic, funny, entertaining, risible

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DYSPEPTIC

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suffering from indigestion; gloomy and irritable

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Synonyms: morose, solemn, melancholy, sour, acerbic

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EPHEMERAL

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momentary, transient, fleeting

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Synonyms: transitory, fugitive, evanescent

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EQUIVOCAL

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ambiguous, open to more than one interpretation

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Synonyms: doubtful, misleading, uncertain

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ESOTERIC

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understood by only a learned few

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Synonyms: mysterious, arcane, occult, recondite, secret

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ETHEREAL

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not earthly, spiritual, delicate

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Synonyms: intangible, diaphanous, airy, gossamer, sheer

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EVANESCENT

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momentary, transitory, short-lived

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Synonyms: transient, ephemeral, fleeting, fugitive

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EXIGENT

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urgent; excessively demanding

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Synonyms: pressing, imperative, compelling, critical, crucial

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FACILE

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easily done; simplistic; poised, assured

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Synonyms: effortless; simple' nimble, fluent

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FALLOW

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uncultivated, unused

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Synonyms: unseeded, inactive, idle

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FASTIDIOUS

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careful with details

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Synonyms: meticulous, painstaking, scrupulous, punctilious, precise

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FATUOUS

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stupid, foolishly self-satisfied

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Synonyms: silly, absurd, preposterous, ridiculous, ludicrous

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FECKLESS

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ineffective, careless, irresponsible

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Synonyms: aimless, shiftless, lazy

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FECUND

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fertile, fruitful, productive

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Synonyms: prolific, flourishing

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FERVID

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passionate, intense, zealous

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Synonyms: vehement, ardent, enthusiastic, avid, eager

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FETID

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foul-smelling, putrid

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Synonyms: noisome, stinky, funky, malodorous, rank

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FLORID

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gaudy, extremely ornate; ruddy, flushed

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Synonyms: ornate, flamboyant, ostentatious, loud, garish

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FRACTIOUS

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unruly, rebellious

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Synonyms: peevish, cranky, quarrelsome, contentious

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FRENETIC

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wildly frantic, frenzied, hectic

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Synonyms: excited, active, bustling, feverish

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GARRULOUS

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very talkative

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Synonyms: loquacious, voluble, verbose, chatty, prolix

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GLIB

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fluent in an insincere manner; offhand, casual

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Synonyms: superficial; easy

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HACKNEYED

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worn out by overuse

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Synonyms: trite, shopworn, stale, banal

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HAPLESS

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unfortunate, having bad luck

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Synonyms: ill-fated, ill-starred, luckless, unlucky, jinxed

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HERMETIC

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tightly sealed

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Synonyms: airtight, watertight, impervious

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HOARY

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very old; whitish or gray from age

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Synonyms: antediluvian, antique, vintage, ancient, venerable

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IGNOMINIOUS

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disgraceful and dishonorable

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Synonyms: despicable, degrading, debasing

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IMMUTABLE

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unchangeable, invariable

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Synonyms: fixed, stationary, permanent, steady

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IMPASSIVE

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showing no emotion

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Synonyms: expressionless, stolid, cold, indifferent, placid

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IMPECUNIOUS

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poor, having no money

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Synonyms: indigent, needy, penniless, impoverished, destitute

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IMPERIOUS

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arrogantly self-assured, domineering, overbearing

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Synonyms: dictatorial, authoritarian, despotic

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IMPERTINENT

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rude

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Synonyms: improper, forward, bold, impolite, discourteous

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IMPLACABLE

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inflexible, incapable of being pleased

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Synonyms: obstinate, unyielding

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IMPUDENT

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arrogant, audacious

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Synonyms: shameless, insolent, impertinent, brazen

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INCHOATE

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imperfectly formed or formulated

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Synonyms: incipient, undeveloped, undefined

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INCIPIENT

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beginning to exist or appear, in an initial stage

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Synonyms: dawning, nascent, inchoate

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INCORRIGIBLE

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incapable of being corrected

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Synonyms: unrepentant, intractable, unmanageable, uncooperative, unchangeable

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INCREDULOUS

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skeptical, doubtful

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Synonyms: disbelieving, suspicious

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INDELIBLE

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permanent, not erasable

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Synonyms: ineffaceable, inexpugnable, permanent

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INDIGENT

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very poor

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Synonyms: needy, impecunious, impoverished, destitute, penniless

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INDIGNANT

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angry, incensed, offended

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Synonyms: furious, irate, mad, wrathful, ireful

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INDOLENT

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habitually lazy, idle

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Synonyms: slothful, languid, lethargic, sluggish, fainéant

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INEXORABLE

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inflexible, unyielding

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Synonyms: adamant, obdurate, relentless

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INGENUOUS

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straightforward, open, naive

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Synonyms: simple, natural, unaffected, artless, candid, unsophisticated

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INIMICAL

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hostile, unfriendly

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Synonyms: injurious, harmful, adverse, antagonistic

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INSENSATE

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lacking sensation, unconscious

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Synonyms: inanimate, unfeeling, numb

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INSIPID

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bland, lacking flavor, lacking excitement

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Synonyms: lackluster, dull, flat, weak

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INSOLENT

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insulting and arrogant

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Synonyms: audacious, rude, presumptuous, impertinent

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INSUPERABLE

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insurmountable, unconquerable

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Synonyms: unbeatable, undefeatable, invincible

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INTRACTABLE

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not easily managed

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Synonyms: unruly, stubborn, refractory, recalcitrant, headstrong

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INTRANSIGENT

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uncompromising, refusing to be reconciled

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Synonyms: obdurate, obstinate, adamant, unbending, unyielding

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INVETERATE

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confirmed, long-standing, deeply rooted

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Synonyms: habitual, chronic

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INVIDIOUS

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causing envy, obnoxious

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Synonyms: causing resentment, discriminatory, insulting, jaundiced

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ITINERANT

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wandering from place to place, unsettled

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Synonyms: nomadic, roving, traveling, vagabond, vagrant

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JADED

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tired by excess or overuse, slightly cynical

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Synonyms: wearied, jaundiced, sated, callous, blasé

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LACHRYMOSE

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tearful

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Synonyms: weeping, teary

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LACKADAISICAL

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idle, lazy, apathetic, indifferent

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Synonyms: languorous, indolent, listless, blasé, fainéant

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LACONIC

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using few words

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Synonyms: terse, concise, pithy, succinct

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LANGUID

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lacking energy, indifferent. slow

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Synonyms: weak, listless, sluggish, lackadaisical, fainéant

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LIMPID

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clear, transparent

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Synonyms: lucid, pellucid, serene

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LISSOME

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easily flexed, limber, agile

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Synonyms: supple, lithe, graceful

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LISTLESS

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lacking energy and enthusiasm

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Synonyms: lethargic, sluggish, languid, fainéant, indolent

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LIVID

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discolored from a bruise; pale; reddened with anger

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Synonyms: black-and-blue; ashen, pallid; furious

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LUGUBRIOUS

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sorrowful, mournful, dismal

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Synonyms: gloomy, funereal, somber, melancholy, woeful

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MACULATE

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marked with spots

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Synonyms: besmirched, impure

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MALADROIT

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clumsy, tactless

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Synonyms: awkward, inept, gauche, ungainly

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MAUDLIN

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overly sentimental

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Synonyms: mawkish, bathetic, saccharine, weepy

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MAWKISH

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sickeningly sentimental

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Synonyms: maudlin, insipid, bathetic, saccharine, weepy

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MENDACIOUS

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dishonest, lying, untruthful

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Synonyms: deceitful, false

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MERCURIAL

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quick, shrewd; unpredictable

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Synonyms: clever, crafty; volatile, whimsical

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MERETRICIOUS

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gaudy, falsely attractive

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Synonyms: flashy, loud, tawdry, insincere, specious

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MONASTIC

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extremely plain or secluded, as in a monastery

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Synonyms: contemplative, disciplined, regimented, self-abnegating, austere

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MOOT

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debatable; purely academic, deprived of practical significance

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Synonyms: arguable, open, inconclusive,doubtful

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MUNIFICENT

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generous

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Synonyms: liberal, bountiful

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MYOPIC

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nearsighted

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Synonyms: shortsighted, sand-blind

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NEBULOUS

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vague, cloudy

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Synonyms: misty, hazy, fuzzy, undefined, unclear

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NOISOME

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stinking, putrid

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Synonyms: foul, disgusting, malodorous

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NUGATORY

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of slight worth, trivial, insignificant

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Synonyms: unimportant, impotent, null

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OBDURATE

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stubborn

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Synonyms: inflexible, inexorable, adamant, impenitent, intractable

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OBSEQUIOUS

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overly submissive, brown-nosing

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Synonyms: fawning, servile, compliant, groveling, unctuous

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OBTUSE

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insensitive, stupid, dull

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Synonyms: slow, dense, blunt

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OFFICIOUS

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overly helpful, meddlesome

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Synonyms: eager, unwanted, intrusive

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OSTENSIBLE

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apparent

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Synonyms: represented, supposed, surface

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PAROCHIAL

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of limited scope or outlook, provincial

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Synonyms: narrow, restricted, insular

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PATENT

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obvious, unconcealed

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Synonyms: apparent, clear, distinct, evident, manifest

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PEDANT

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uninspired, boring

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Synonyms: academic scholar, schoolmaster, pedagogue

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PEDESTRIAN

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commonplace

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Synonyms: undistinguished, ordinary, dull, mediocre, lackluster

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PERFIDIOUS

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faithless, disloyal, untrustworthy

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Synonyms: treacherous, devious, deceitful

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PERFUNCTORY

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done in a routine way; indifferent

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Synonyms: halfhearted, tepid, careless

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PERIPATETIC

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moving from place to place

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Synonyms: itinerant, nomadic, vagabond

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PERSPICACIOUS

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shrewd, astute, keen-witted

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Synonyms: sagacious, insightful, intelligent

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PHLEGMATIC

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calm in temperament, sluggish

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Synonyms: unemotional, placid

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PITHY

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profound, substantial; concise, succinct, to the point

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Synonyms: brief, compact, terse, laconic

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PLAINTIVE

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sad, lamenting

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Synonyms: mournful, melancholy

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POIGNANT

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emotionally moving

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Synonyms: stirring, touching, pathetic, affecting, piquant

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POLITIC

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discreet, tactful

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Synonyms: prudent, artful, diplomatic, judicious, cunning

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PRECIPITATE

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sudden and unexpected

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Synonyms: abrupt, impetuous, headlong, reckless, rash

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PRESCIENT

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having foresight

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Synonyms: premonitory, augural, divinatory, mantic, oracular

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PRODIGAL

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wasteful, extravagant, lavish

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Synonyms: riotous, luxurious, improvident, thriftless, profligate

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PROFLIGATE

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corrupt, degenerate

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Synonyms: dissolute, wasteful, extravagant, improvident, prodigal

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PROLIX

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marked by or using an excess of words

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Synonyms: verbose, loquacious, garrulous

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PROPITIOUS

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favorable, advantageous

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Synonyms: auspicious, benign, conducive

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PROSAIC

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relating to prose; dull, commonplace

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Synonyms: matter-of-fact, straightforward, unimaginative, pedestrian

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PRURIENT

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lustful, exhibiting lewd desires

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Synonyms: lascivious, lecherous, licentious, salacious, wanton

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PUERILE

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childish, immature, silly

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Synonyms: juvenile, infantile, jejune

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QUERULOUS

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inclined to complain, irritable

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Synonyms: peevish, whiny, sniveling, puling

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QUIXOTIC

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overly idealistic, impractical

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Synonyms: romantic, unrealistic, capricious, impulsive

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QUOTIDIAN

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occurring daily, commonplace

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Synonyms: everyday, normal, usual

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REACTIONARY

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marked by extreme conservatism

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Synonyms: ultraconservative, right-wing, orthodox, antiprogress

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RECALCITRANT

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resisting authority or control

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Synonyms: stubborn, defiant, unruly, headstrong, willful, refractory

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REFRACTORY

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resisting authority or control, stubborn

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Synonyms: bullheaded, headstrong, intractable, mulish, obdurate, unyielding, recalcitrant

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RESTIVE

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impatient, uneasy, restless

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Synonyms: anxious, agitated, fretful

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RIBALD

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humorous in a vulgar way

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Synonyms: lewd, coarse, indelicate, obscene, gross

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SALLOW

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sickly yellow in color

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Synonyms: ashen, green, pasty, peaked, wan, jaundiced

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SALUBRIOUS

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healthful

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Synonyms: curative, medicinal, tonic, therapeutic, bracing

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SANGUINE

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ruddy; cheerfully optimistic

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Synonyms: rosy, rubicund; confident, positive, hopeful

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SEMINAL

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relating to the beginning or seeds of something

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Synonyms: original, creative, influential

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SENTENTIOUS

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having a moralizing tone

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Synonyms: terse, pithy, aphoristic, pompous, moralistic

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SERAPHIC

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angelic, pure, sublime

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Synonyms: heavenly, celestial

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SINUOUS

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winding; intricate, complex

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Synonyms: supple, lithe, devious, serpentine, curvilinear

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SOPORIFIC

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sleepy or tending to cause sleep

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Synonyms: somnolent, narcotic, somniferous, drowsy

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SPURIOUS

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lacking authenticity, counterfeit, false

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Synonyms: fraudulent, ersatz, fake, phony, mock

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STACCATO

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marked by abrupt, clear-cut sounds

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Synonyms: short, disconnected

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STOIC

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indifferent to or unaffected by emotions

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Synonyms: impassive, stolid

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STOLID

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having or showing little emotion

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Synonyms: impassive, stoic

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STRIDENT

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loud, harsh, unpleasantly noisy

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Synonyms: grating, shrill, discordant

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SUPERCILIOUS

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arrogant, haughty, overbearing, condescending

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Synonyms: proud, disdainful, patronizing, contumelious

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TAWDRY

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gaudy, cheap, showy

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Synonyms: flashy, garish, loud, meretricious

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TORPID

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lethargic, unable to move, dormant

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Synonyms: benumbed, hibernating, apathetic, inactive, inert

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TORRID

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burning hot; passionate

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Synonyms: parched, scorching, sweltering; ardent

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TORTUOUS

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having many twists and turns; highly complex

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Synonyms: winding, circuitous, devious; involved

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TRACTABLE

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obedient, yielding

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Synonyms: governable, compliant, acquiescent, docile, malleable

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TRANSITORY

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short-lived, existing only briefly

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Synonyms: transient, ephemeral, fleeting, fugitive, momentary

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TRENCHANT

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acute, sharp, incisive; forceful, effective

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Synonyms: mordant, biting, cutting, caustic

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TURGID

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swollen, bloated

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Synonyms: grandiloquent, bombastic, overwrought, orotund, distended

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UNCTUOUS

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greasy, oily; smug and falsely earnest

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Synonyms: fulsome, oleaginous, smarmy, phony

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UNTOWARD

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difficult to manage; unfavorable or unlucky

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Synonyms: fractious, intractable, recalcitrant; hapless, unfortunate, unseemly

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UXORIAL

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of, relating to, or characteristic of a wife

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Synonyms: wifely, spousal

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VAUNTED

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boasted or bragged about

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Synonyms: acclaimed, celebrated

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VISCOUS

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thick, syrupy, and sticky

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Synonyms: adhesive, viscid, gelatinous, gummy, ropy

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WAN

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sickly pale

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Synonyms: ashen, pallid, sallow, blanched, pasty, sickly

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WANTON

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undisciplined, unrestrained, reckless

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Synonyms: capricious, lewd, licentious

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WIZENED

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withered, shriveled, wrinkled

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Synonyms: wasted, atrophied, gnarled, mummified, desiccated