Wordsmart 18
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- acerbic
- bitter and sour, severe
- acrimonious
- full of spite, bitter, nasty
- allocate
- assign, distribute
- ameliorate
- to make better or more tolerable
- arcane
- mysterious, only know to a select few
- assiduous
- hardworking, busy, dilligent
- neologism
- a new word or phrase, a new usage of the word
- obfuscate
- to darken, confuse, to make confusing
- officious
- annoyingly eager to help or advise
- pacify
- to calm down
- palpable
- capable of touched, obvious, tangible
- paradigm
- model or example
- paradox
- a true statement that nonetheless seems to contradict itself, or an untrue statement that seems logical
- pensive
- thoughtful and sad
- peremptory
- final, categorical, dictatorial
- pernicious
- deadly and extremely evil
- petulant
- rude cranky and ill-temepred
- philistine
- a smugly ignorant person with no appreciation to intellectual/artistic matters
- precept
- a rule to live by, a maxim, a principle establishing a certain action/ behavior
- preeminent
- better than enyone else, outstanding, supreme