Vocabulary List 10: adjectives
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- prodigious
- impressively great in size, force, or extent; extraordinary; marvelous
- sardonic
- scornfully or cynically mocking
- palpable
- capable of being handled, touched, or felt; tangible
- feisty
- touchy; quarrelsome; full of spirit; frisky or spunky
- dolorous
- exhibiting sorrow, grief, or pain
- jaunty
- having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk; crisp and dapper in appearance
- imperious
- arrogantly domineering or overbearing; dictatorial
- ornate
- elaborately and often excessively ornamented; showy or flowery
- demure
- modest and reserved in manner or behavior; shy
- extenuating
- lessened the magnitude or seriousness of, especially by making partial excuses
- myriad
- constituting a very large, indefinite number; innumerable; composed of numerous diverse elements or facts; a great number, countless
- flippant
- marked by disrespectful levity or casualness; pert
- vehement
- characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid; intense
- facetious
- playfully jocular
- epicurean
- devoted to the pursuit of sensual pleasure especially to good food and comfort
- relevant
- having a bearing on or connection with the matter at hand
- prone
- lying with the front or face downward; having a tendency; inclined
- oblique
- having a slanting or sloping direction, course, or position; indirect or evasive; devious
- churlish
- boorish or vulgar; having a bad disposition; surly; difficult to work with; intractable
- audacious
- fearlessly; often recklessly daring, adventurous, and brave; unrestrained by convention or propriety;insolent