Analogy Words Part 2
Terms
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- Contrite
- Remorseful
- Florid
- Rosy, ruddy, highly colored
- Fiscal-
- Having to do with public money, financial
- Fervent-
- Hot, burning, ardent
- Convivial-
- Sociable, jovial
- Corsair-
- A privateer, a pirate; a pirate ship
- Coterie-
- A group which gathers for social purposes; social circle, clique
- Crone-
- A withered old woman
- Crypt-
- An underground chamber, vault serving as a burial place
- Diaphanous-
- delicate, transparent
- Disconcerting-
- Upsetting, frustrating
- Dissonance-
- A harsh or unpleasant sound or combination of sounds; lack of agreement, discord
- Docile-
- Teachable, tractable
- Dolt-
- A stupid, slow-witted person
- Denouement-
- The outcome of a plot in a drama or story
- Dotard-
- A person in his or her dotage or second childhood; a senile person
- Elucidate-
- To make clear, to explain
- Emporium-
- A trading center, a large store, a market place
- Entourage-
- Surroundings, environment; a group of attendants
- Estrange-
- To remove, to turn away, to alienate
- Altruism-
- Concern for the welfare of others
- Agnostic-
- A person who thinks it is impossible to know whether there is a God or future life
- Aesthetic-
- Sensitive to beauty
- Adulate-
- To flatter
- Acronym-
- A word formed from the first letters of other words
- Accolade-
- A ceremony to mark special merit; a mark of acknowledgement like a reward
- Abstinent-
- Practicing abstinence or refraining from something like food or drink
- Abrogate-
- To repeal, to cancel; to do away with
- Clement-
- Lenient, merciful, mild—usually refers to the weather
- Construe-
- To understand or explain the sense or orientation of; interpret
- Amorphous
- Shapeless
- Anachronism-
- Something occurring in the wrong time
- Artisan-
- A skilled craftsperson
- Askew-
- Not symmetrical, awry; not straight
- Belligerent-
- Hostile
- Bumptious-
- Arrogant; pushy
- Cantankerous-
- Contentious, perverse, grouchy
- Cauldron-
- A large kettle
- Charlatan-
- An imposter, a fraud or presenter
- Churlish-
- Surly, boorish, miserly, unmannerly