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- Guile
-
deciet, trickery
Since he was not fast enough to catch the road-runner on foot the coyote resorted to guile in an effort to trap his enemy - Fanatical
-
acting excessively enthusiastic
The stormtroopers were fanatical in their devotion to the emperor. - Zeal
-
Passion, Excitement
She brought her typical zeal to the project, sparking enthusiasm in all. - Volatile
- changeable or explosive
- Whimsical
- unpredictable, lightly acting in a fanciful manner
- Intransigent
-
rigid uncomprimising
the teacher on his deadline - Gregarious
- highly sociable
- Laconic
- of few words
- Implacable
- hard to be calmed
- Latent
- unrealized or non apparrent potential
- fawn
- to grovel
- ingenuous
- child-like, innocence, candid
- explicit
- clearly stated
- fortuitous
- by fortune or chance
- lament
- to grieve
- Inchoate
- not fully formed, disorganized
- Garrulous
- tending to talk a lot
- Foment
-
To incite or arouse
The rebels fomented the revolution through their attacks - Frugality
- cheapness
- Fervid
- intensley emotional, feverish
- Florid
- excessively decorated
- Irascible
-
easily angered
think irritable - Waver
- to mull over two choices
- Viscous
- Thick or adhesive
- Verbose
- Wordy
- Vex
- to annoy
- Lavish
- highly charitable, extremely generous
- Iconoclast
- one who goes against what is accepted
- Impervious
- inpenetrable
- Innocous
-
harmless
The gentle giant was innocous - Lethargic
- Sluggish
- Lucid
- Easily understood, clearly stated
- Malinger
- to fake illness to avoid responsibility
- Metaphor
- a symbol for something
- Permeate
- to penetrate,
- Perfidious
- willing to betray ones trust
- Prefunctory
- indifferent
- Pedant
- someone who shows off learning
- Meticulous
- extremely careful about details
- Malleable
- easy to shape
- Luminous
- glowing
- Insipid
- bland
- Laud
- praise or glorify
- Inimical
-
unfriendly
Even after the cease fire the two sides were inimical - Lassitude
- state of diminished energy
- Loquaciuos
- talkative
- Placate
-
to soothe or pacify
the burgular tried to placate the dog with a treat - Philanthropy
- giving to charity
- Phlegmatic
- calm and cool
- Pervasive
- penetrating, to be present throughout
- Rarefy
- to make thinner or sparser
- Proclivity
- natural inclination or predisposition
- archaic
- old, out dated
- apocryphal
-
from questionable authority
AREA 51 - Attenuate
- to weaken in force
- Antipathy
- extreme dislike
- Apathy
- lack of interest or emotion
- Assuage
-
to make something unpleasant less severe
USE ALCOHOL - ardor
- intense and passionate feeling
- burgeon
- to grow and flourish
- Bombastic
- pompous in speech and manner
- Caustic
- biting in wit
- Banal
- bland, boring
- Analogous
- similar to or alike in some way
- Arbitrate
- judge a dispute between two parties
- Coalesce
- to grow together to form a single whole
- decorum
- propriety
- Cacophony
-
harsh, jarring noise
"loud noises" - Chicanery
- deception by guile
- Credulous
- innocent, trusting
- Circumspect
- think about all the potential consequences of every action
- Burnish
- polish
- Crescendo
- increasing in volume
- Chauvinist
- predjuiced in favor of own group
- Corroborate
- support, give evidence for
- Aesthetic
- concerning the appreciation of beauty
- Adulterate
- to make impure
- Ameliorate
- To make better, improve
- Abstain
-
To choose not to do something
during lent catholics abstain from meat - Amalgamate
- to combine, mix together
- Condone
- to overlook, pardon or disregard
- Arbitrary
- determined by chance or impulse
- Austere
- severe or stern in appearance, undecorated
- Capricious
- changing one's mind quickly and often
- Convoluted
- complicated, and intricate
- Candid
- impartial and honest in speech
- Catalyst
- something that brings about a change in something else
- Chaos
- disorder
- Bolster
- support, prop up
- Connoisseur
- a person with expert knowledge
- Aggrandize
- To increase in power, influence, or reputation
- Advocate
- speak in favor of
- Anachronism
- Out of place
- Abyss
- deep dark whole
- Ambigous
- something that is able to be interperted in multiple ways
- Abscond
- to leave secretly
- Alleviate
- to make more bearable
- Articulate
- to speak clearly and expressively
- Anomaly
- something out of the ordinary
- Antagonize
- to annoy
- Audacious
- Fearless
- Approbation
- approval and praise
- Cogent
-
convincing and well reasoned
SWAYED BY THE COGENT ARGUMENT OF THE DEFENSE, THE JURY HAD TO ACQUIT - Castigate
- to punish, or critisize harshly
- Dilatory
- intended to delay
- Abate
-
to reduce in amount, degree, or severity
AS THE HURRICANE WINDS ABATED THE SEA CALMED - Desultory
- Jumping from one topic to another
- Deride
- to speak of or treat with contempt, to mock
- Deference
- respect, courtesy
- Desiccate
-
to dry out thoroughly
COWS CARCASS - Diatribe
-
an abusive, condemnatory speech
WHAT THE TRUCKER SAID TO THE PERSON WHO CUT HIM OFF - Dilate
- to make larger, expand
- Alacrity
- cheerful readiness
- Aberrant
- Abnormal
- Impetuous
- quick to act without thinking
- Inundate
- to overwhelm, to cover with water
- Imperturbable
-
Not capable of being disturbed
EXPERIENCED TEACHER WITH KIDS THROWING TANTRUMS - Homogenous
- of similar kind
- Diffident
- lacking self confidence
- Dissemble
- to present a false appearance, to disguise one's real intentions or character
- Dogma
- a firmly held opinion, especially a religous belief
- Dirge
-
a funeral hymn or mournful speech
AMADEUS - Disparate
-
fundamentally different; entirely unlike
twins with disparate personality - Dissonance
-
A harsh and disagreeable combination, especially of sounds
COGNITIVE DISSONANCE OCCURS WHEN AN INNER CONFLICT IS CAUSED BY NEW EVIDENCE THAT CONTRADICTS LONG STANDING BELIEFS - Disabuse
- make up for, straighten out
- Dilettante
- someone with an amateurish and superficial interest in a topic
- Elegy
- A sorrowful poem or speech
- Embellish
- to add ornamental or fictitious details
- Eclectic
-
selecting from or made up from a variety of sources
BUDAPESTS ARCHITECTURE IS AN ECLECTIC MIX OF EASTERN AND WESTERN STYLES - Discern
- to perceive or recognize
- Efficacy
- effectiveness
- Eloquent
- persuasive and moving, especially in speech
- Emulate
-
to copy, to try to equal or excel
IMITATE, SIMULATE - Gullible
- easily deceived
- Probity
-
complete honesty and integrity
GEORGE WASHINGTON - Quiescent
-
motionless
ANIMALS HIBERNATING - Prevaricate
- to lie or deviate from the truth
- Prudence
- wisdom, caution or restraint
- Pristine
- fresh and clean, uncorrupted
- Pungent
- sharp and irritating to the senses
- Precipitate
- to throw violently or bring about abruptly; lacking deliberation
- Propriety
- Acting in a proper manner, obeying rules and customs
- Pragmatic
-
practical as opposed to idealistic.
REALISTIC INSTEAD OF OPTIMISTIC - Propitiate
- to conciliate, to appease
- Plethora
- excess
- Proliferate
- to increase in number quickly
- Plastic
- able to be molded, altered or bent
- Prodigal
-
lavish wasteful
PRODIGAL SON OF RICH DAD, WASTES MONEY ON LAVISH LIFESTYLE - Dogmatic
-
dictatorial in one's opinions
NARROW MINDED- ONLY BELIEVING IN OWN OPINIONS - Dupe
-
to deceive or a person who is easily deceived
GULLIBLE - Erratic
- wandering, unpredictable
- Ephemeral
- lasting a short time
- Enigma
- a puzzle or mystery
- Enervate
-
to reduce in strength
GUERILLA ATTACKS ENERVATE OPPOSING FORCES - Erudite
- learned, scholarly
- equivocate
- use expressions of double meaning in order to deceive
- Enumerate
- to count list
- Engender
- to produce, cause, or bring about
- Exonerate
- to clear of blame
- Exculpate
- to clear from blame, prove innocence
- Euphemism
-
using more proper words
MORE POLITICALLY CORRECT ETC - Estimable
-
Admirable
MOTHER TERESA - Exigent
- urgent, requiring immediate attention
- Exacerbate
- to make worse
- Esoteric
- known or understood only by a few
- Eulogy
- speech and praise of song
- Naive
- lacking experience
- obdurate
-
hardened in feeling , resistant to persuasion
PRESIDENT ON THE WAR - mollify
-
to calm or make less severe
WEED MOLLIFIES CHELSEY - monotony
- no variation, tediously the same
- obstinate
-
stubborn or unyielding
OBSTINATE CHILD NOT EATING GREEN BEANS - obsequious
-
overly submissive, eager to please
OBSEQUIOUS NEW ASSOCIATE AND BOSS - Mitigate
-
to soften or lessen
PRISON SENTENCE BEING MITIGATED BECAUSE CRIME COMITTED OUT OF NEED - Misanthrope
-
a person who dislikes others
THE GRINCH - Paradox
- contradiction
- Paragon
-
model of excellence or perfection
STUART - Opprobirium
-
public disgrace
AFTER THE SCHEME TO EMBEZZLE FROM THE ELDERLY THE EMBEZZLER FELT OPPROBIRIUM - Ostentation
- excessive showiness
- Oneros
-
troublesome, burdensome
THE ASSIGNMENT WAS ONEROS - Opaque
- impossible to see through, preventing the passage of light
- Obviate
-
to prevent, to make unnecessary
THE RIVER WAS SHALLOW ENOUGH TO WADE ACROSS WHICH OBVIATED THE NEED FOR A BRIDGE. - Occlude
-
to stop up, prevent the passage of
TOILET - Venerate
- to respect deeply
- Repudiate
- to reject the validity of
- Vacillate
-
to physically sway or be indecisive
WAVER - Torpor
-
extreme mental and physical sluggishness
AFTER THE SURGERY THE PATIENT EXPERIENCED TORPOR AFTER THE ANESTHESIA - Transitory
- temporary, lasting a brief time
- Sublime
- lofty or grand
- Taciturn
-
silent not talkative
THE CLERKS TACITURN EARNED HIM THE NAME SILENT BOB - Tacit
-
done without using words
ALTHOUGH NOT A WORD WAS SAID EVERYONE NEW WHAT COURSE OF ACTION NEEDED TO BE TAKEN - Reticent
- silent and reserved
- Rhetoric
- effective writing or speaking
- Satiate
- to satisfy fully or over indulge
- Soporific
-
causing sleep or lethargy
SOPORIFIC MOVIE PUT ME TO SLEEP - Specious
- deceptively attractive; seemingly plausible but fallacious
- Stigma
-
a mark of shame or discredit
SCARLET A - Stolid
-
unemotional, lacking sesitivity
PRISONER TO SENTENCE - Tirade
-
long harsh speech or verbal attack
MANAGER TO EMPLOYEE OVER MINOR MISTAKE - Veracity
- filled with truth and accuracy