Random English Vocabulary Words

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zosteriform

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shaped like a girdle

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zephyr

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Any soft, gentle wind

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zeitgeist

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The intellectual and moral tendencies that charachterize any age or speech

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zaftig

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having a full; rounded figure

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Zabernism

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misuse of military authority; bullying

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wry

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Using or expressing dry, esp. mocking, humor. (of a person's face or features) Twisted into an expression of disgust, disappointment, or annoyance

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voluble

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Speaking or spoken incessantly and fluently

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vituperation

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Bitter and abusive language

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verity

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A true principle or belief, esp one of fundamental importance. Truth: “irrefutable, objective verity”

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verdant

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Green with grass or other rich vegetation. Green, naïve.

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trenchant

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Keen, sharp, effective and articulate, sharply perceptive.

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turbid

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Deficient in clarity or purity. Characterized by or producing obscurity.

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turgid

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1: being in a state of distension : swollen
2: excessively embellished in style or language : bombastic, pompous <turgid prose>

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turpitude

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Inherent baseness, depravity.

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unilateral

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a: done or undertaken by one person or party of, relating to, or affecting one side of a subject
b: one-sided
c : constituting or relating to a contract or engagement by which an express obligation to do or forbear is imposed on only one party

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unilateral

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a : having parts arranged on one side <a unilateral raceme>
b : occurring on, performed on, or affecting one side of the body or one of its parts <unilateral exophthalmos>

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unilateral

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tracing descent through either the maternal or paternal line only

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unilateral

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having only one side

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untoward

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Unexpected and inappropriate or inconvenient.

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vacuity

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Total absence of matter or ideas; emptiness.

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suffuse

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To spread over or through in the manner of fluid or light

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sunder

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To break apart or in two, to become parted disunited or severed.

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surfeit

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(n/v) an overabundant supply, an intemperate or immoderate indulgence in something, disgust caused by excess.

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taciturn

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Temperamentally disinclined to talk

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temerity

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Unreasonable or foolhardy contempt of danger or opposition, rashness. A rash or reckless act.

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tendentious

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Biased, marked by a tendency in favor of a particular viewpoint.

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timorous

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Of timid disposition.

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torpid

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Having lost motion or the power of exertion or feeling, dormant, numb, sluggish in functioning or acting.

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tractable

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Capable of being led, taught or controlled, docile, malleable, easily handled managed or wrought.

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transitory

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Temporal, tending to ass away, not persistent.

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sententious

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Given to or abounding in aphoristic expression, given to or abounding in excessive moralizing, terse, aphoristic, or moralistic in expression : pithy, epigrammatic

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serpentine

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Of or resembling a serpent (as in form or movement), subtly wily or tempting, winding or turning one way and another

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sinuous

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Of a serpentine or wavy form : winding, marked by strong lithe movements, intricate, complex

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soporific

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Causing or tending to cause sleep, tending to dull awareness or alertness of, relating to, or marked by sleepiness or lethargy

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spate

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Flood, a large number or amount, a sudden or strong outburst

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specious

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Having deceptive attraction or allure, having a false look of truth or genuineness.

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splenetic

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Marked by bad temper, malevolence or spite