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Terms
undefined, object
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- forswear
- renounce disallow repudiate
- foster
- nurture care for
- fracas
- noisy quarrel
- fragile
- easily injured broken or destroyed
- fragrant
- sweet-smelling
- frantic
- wildly excited with joy pain anxiety
- frenetic
- frantic frenzied
- fret
- worry irritation wear away
- fringe
- edge ornamental border part of hair over the forehead
- froward
- intractable not willing to yield or comply stubborn
- frugal
- careful economical
- fulmination
- bitter protest
- fulsome
- disgusting offensive due to excessiveness
- gainsay
- to deny to oppose
- garble
- make unfair selection from facts
- garment
- article of clothing
- garner
- to gather and save to store up
- garrulity
- talkativeness
- garrulous
- too talkative
- gaucherie
- socially awkward tactless behavior
- germane
- relevant pertinent to
- gist
- the point general sense
- glean
- gather facts in small quantities
- glib
- ready and smooth but not sincere
- glimmer
- weak/unsteady light
- gloat
- over look at with selfish delight
- glut
- supply to much fill to excess
- gnaw
- waste away bite steadily
- goad
- smth urging a person to action
- gorge
- eat greedily/narrow opening with a stream
- gossamer
- soft light delicate material
- gouge
- tool for cutting grooves in wood
- grandiloquent
- using pompous words
- grave
- serious requiring consideration
- graze
- touch or scrape lightly in passing
- gregarious
- living in societies liking the company
- grievous
- causing grief or pain serious dire grave
- grovel
- crawl humble oneself
- guile
- deceit cunning
- gullible
- easily gulled
- gush
- burst out suddenly/talk ardently
- gust
- outburst of feeling sudden rain wind fire etc.
- hack
- cut roughly hired horse
- halcyon
- calm and peaceful
- hallow
- to make holy consecrate
- harangue
- a long passionate speech
- harbinger
- smth or smb that foretells the coming of
- harrow
- to distress create stress or torment
- haughty
- arrogant conceited
- heed
- attention/give notice to
- heinous
- odious (of crime)
- heresy
- belief contrary to what is generally accepted
- hermetic
- sealed by fusion
- heterogeneous
- made up of different kinds
- hew
- make by hard work cut (by striking)
- highbrow
- (person) with superior tastes
- hirsute
- hairy shaggy
- hoax
- mischievous trick played on smb for a joke
- hoi
- polloi the masses the rabble
- hollow
- not soled with hole
- holster
- leather case for a pistol
- homiletics
- act of preaching
- hone
- stone used for sharpening tools
- hoodwink
- trick mislead
- hospitable
- liking to give hospitality
- hubris
- arrogant pride
- hush
- make or become silent
- husk
- worthless outside part of anything
- hypocrisy
- falsely making oneself appear to be good
- iconoclast
- person who attacks popular beliefs
- idiosyncrasy
- personal mannerism
- idolatry
- excessive admiration of
- idyll
- a carefree episode or experience
- ignoble
- dishonorable common undignified
- ignominious
- shameful dishonorable undignified disgraceful
- illicit
- unlawful forbidden
- imbroglio
- complicated and embarrassing situation
- immaculate
- pure faultless
- imminent
- likely to come or happen soon
- immutable
- that cannot be changed
- impair
- worsen diminish in value
- impassive
- unmoved feeling no sign of passion
- impecunious
- having little or no money
- impede
- hinder get in the way of
- impediment
- smth that hinders (e.g. stammer)
- impending
- imminent being about to happen expected
- imperative
- urgent essential
- imperious
- commanding haughty arrogant
- impermeable
- that cannot be permeated
- imperturbable
- calm not capable of being excited
- impervious
- not allowing to pass through (of materials)
- imperviousness
- haughty arrogant commanding
- impetuous
- having sudden energy impulsive thrusting ahead forceful
- impiety
- lack of reverence or dutifulness
- implacable
- incapable of being placated unpleasable
- implicate
- show that smb has a share
- implicit
- implied though not plainly expressed
- implosion
- collapse bursting inward
- importune
- beg urgently solicit (of a prostitute)
- imprecation
- an invocation of evil a curse
- impromptu
- without preparation
- impudent
- rash indiscreet
- impugned
- challenged to be doubted
- impute
- to attribute to a cause or source ascribe
- inadvertent
- not paying proper attention
- inane
- silly senseless
- inasmuch
- since because
- incense
- make angry
- incessant
- often repeated continual
- inchoate
- not yet fully formed rudimentary elementary
- incipient
- beginning
- incise
- engrave make a cut in
- incite
- stir up rouse
- inclined
- directing the mind in a certain direction
- incongruous
- out of place not in harmony or agreement
- incorrigibility
- cannot be cured or corrected
- incredulous
- skeptical unwilling to believe
- inculcate
- fix firmly by repetition
- incumbents
- official duties
- incursion
- a raid a sudden attack
- indefatigability
- not easily exhaustible tirelessness
- indelible
- that cannot be rubbed out
- indigence
- poverty
- indigenous
- native
- indistinct
- not easily heard seen clearly marked
- indolence
- laziness
- indomitable
- not easily discouraged or subdued
- indulge
- gratify give way to satisfy allow oneself
- indulgent
- inclined to indulge
- ineffable
- to great to be described in words
- ineluctable
- certain inevitable
- inept
- unskillful said or done at the wrong time
- ineptitude
- quality of being unskillful
- inferno
- hell
- infuriate
- fill with fury or rage
- infuse
- put pour fill
- ingenuous
- naive young artless frank honest sincere
- ingest
- take in by swallowing
- inimical
- harmful or friendly
- inimitable
- defying imitation unmatchable
- innocuous
- causing no harm
- inscrutable
- incapable of being discovered or understood
- insensible
- unconscious unresponsive unaffected
- insinuate
- suggest unpleasantly make a way for smth gently
- insipid
- without taste or flavor
- insouciant
- unconcerned carefree
- insularity
- narrow-mindedness isolated
- insurrection
- rising of people to open resistance to
- interdict
- prohibit forbid
- interim
- as an installment
- intersperse
- place here and there
- intransigence
- unwillingness to compromise stubbornness intractability
- intransigent
- uncompromising
- intrepid
- fearless brave undaunted
- introspection
- examining one's own thoughts and feelings
- inundate
- flood cover by overflowing
- inured
- accustomed to adapted
- invective
- abusive language curses
- inveigh
- to attack verbally denounce deprecate
- inveterate
- deep-rooted. long-established
- invincible
- too strong to be defeated
- involute
- complex
- irascible
- irritable easily angered
- irate
- angry
- ire
- anger
- irksome
- tiresome
- irresolute
- hesitating undecided
- irrevocable
- final and unalterable
- itinerate
- to travel from place to place to peregrinate
- jabber
- talk excitedly utter rapidly
- jibe
- gibe make fun of
- jocular
- meant as a joke
- judicious
- sound in judgment wise
- knit
- draw together unite firmly
- labyrinthine
- to entangle the state of affairs
- lachrymose
- causing tears tearful
- lackluster
- (of eyes) dull
- lament
- show feel great sorrow
- lassitude
- weariness tiredness
- latent
- present but not yet active developed or visible
- laudatory
- expressing or giving praise
- lavish
- giving or producing freely liberally or generously
- legacy
- smth handed down from ancestors
- levee
- formal reception/embankment
- levity
- lack of seriousness
- libel
- statement that damages reputation
- liberality
- free giving generosity
- libertine
- immoral person
- lien
- legal claim until a debt on it is repaid
- limn
- paint portray
- limp
- lacking strength walking unevenly
- lionize
- treat as a famous person
- lithe
- bending twisting
- loll
- rest to sit or stand in a lazy way hang (dog's tongue)
- lope
- move along with long strides
- loquacious
- talkative garrulous
- lucubrate
- write in scholarly fashion
- luculent
- easily understood lucid clear
- lugubrious
- mournful excessively sad
- lull
- become quiet or less active