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- lumber
- move in a clumsy/noisy way
- luminary
- star light-giving body
- lurk
- be out of view ready to attack
- lustrous
- being bright polished
- macabre
- gruesome suggesting death
- macerate
- make or become soft by soaking in water
- machination
- plot scheme (esp. evil)
- maladroit
- tactless clumsy
- malapropism
- misuse of a word (for one that resembles it)
- malevolence
- wishing to do evil
- malign
- injurious speak ill of smb tell lie
- malinger
- to fake illness or injury in order to shirk a duty
- malleable
- yielding easily shaped moldable adapting
- manacle
- chains for the hands or feet
- massacre
- cruel killing of a large number of people
- matriculation
- be admitted enter a university as a student
- maudlin
- sentimental in a silly or tearful way
- maul
- hurt by rough handling
- maverick
- rebel nonconformist
- mellifluous
- sweetly flowing
- mendacity
- dishonesty
- mendicant
- a beggar
- mercurial
- quick changeable in character fleeting
- meretricious
- attractive on the surface but of little value
- mesmerize
- hypnotize
- meticulous
- giving great attention to details
- mettle
- quality of endurance or courage
- mettlesome
- courageous high-spirited
- middling
- fairly good but not very good
- minatory
- menacing threatening
- mince
- pronounce or speak affectedly euphemize
- misanthrope
- person who hates mankind
- mischievous
- harmful causing mischief
- miser
- person who loves wealth and spends little
- misogynist
- one who hates women/females
- moderation
- quality of being limited not extreme
- mollify
- make calmer or quieter
- molt
- moult lose hair feathers before new growing
- morbid
- diseased unhealthy (e.g.. about ideas)
- morose
- ill-tempered unsocial
- muffler
- cloth worn round the neck/silencer
- multifarious
- varied motley greatly diversified
- mundane
- worldly as opposed to spiritual commonplace everyday
- myriad
- very great number
- nadir
- lowest weakest point
- nascent
- coming into existence emerging
- nebulous
- cloud-like hazy vague indistinct
- negligent
- taking too little care
- neophyte
- person who has been converted to a belief
- nexus
- a connection tie or link
- nibble
- show some inclination to accept (an offer)
- noisome
- offensive disgusting (smell)
- nonchalant
- not having interest
- nonplused
- greatly surprised
- nostrum
- a quack remedy an untested cure
- noxious
- harmful
- nugatory
- trifling/worthless
- obdurate
- hardened and unrepenting stubborn inflexible
- obfuscate
- to darken make obscure muddle
- oblivious
- unaware having no memory
- obloquy
- abusively detractive language sharp criticism vituperation
- obsequious
- too eager to obey or serve
- obstreperous
- noisy loud
- obtain
- to be established accepted or customary
- obtrusive
- projecting prominent undesirably noticeable
- obtuse
- blunt/stupid
- obviate
- to make unnecessary get rid of
- occluded
- blocked up
- odious
- repulsive hateful
- odium
- contempt dislike aversion
- odor
- smell favor reputation
- officious
- too eager or ready to help offer advice
- ominous
- threatening
- onerous
- needing effort burdensome
- opaqueness
- dullness/not allowing light to pass through
- opprobrious
- showing scorn or reproach
- ossify
- to turn to bone to settle rigidly into an idea
- ostensible
- seeming appearing as such professed
- ostentation
- display to obtain admiration or envy
- ostracism
- shut out from society refuse to meet talk
- overhaul
- examine thoroughly to learn about the condition
- overweening
- presumptuously arrogant overbearing immoderate being a jerk
- paean
- song of praise or triumph
- palate
- roof of the mouth sense of taste
- palatial
- magnificent
- palliate
- lessen the severity of
- palpability
- can be felt touched understood
- palpitate
- tremble beat rapidly and irregularly
- panegyric
- formal praise eulogy
- paradigm
- a model example or pattern
- parenthesis
- sentence within another one smth separated
- pariah
- an outcast a rejected and despised person
- parsimonious
- too economical miserly
- partisan
- one-sided committed to a party biased or prejudiced
- patron
- regular customer person who gives support
- paucity
- scarcity a lacking of
- peccadillo
- small sin small weakness in one's character
- pedantic
- bookish showing off learning
- pedestrian
- commonplace trite unremarkable
- pellucid
- transparent easy to understand
- penchant
- strong inclination a liking
- penitent
- feeling or showing regret
- penurious
- poor/stingy
- penury
- extreme poverty
- peregrination
- traveling about wandering
- peremptory
- urgent imperative unchallengeable ending debate
- perfidious
- treacherous faithless
- perfidy
- treachery breaking of faith
- perfunctory
- done as a duty without care
- perilous
- dangerous
- peripatetic
- wandering
- perish
- be destroyed decay
- perjury
- willful FALSE statement unlawful act
- permeate
- spread into every part of
- pernicious
- harmful injurious
- perpetrate
- be guilty commit (a crime)
- personable
- pleasing in appearance attractive
- perspicacity
- quick judging and understanding
- pertain
- belong as a part have reference
- pest
- destructive thing or a person who is nuisance
- petrified
- taken away power (to think feel act)
- petrify
- to make hard rocklike
- petrous
- like a rock hard stony
- petulant
- unreasonably impatient
- philistine
- a smug ignorant person one who lacks knowledge
- phlegmatic
- calm sluggish temperament unemotional
- picaresque
- involving clever rogues or adventurers
- pied
- of mixed colors
- pinch
- be too tight take between the thumb and finger
- pine
- waste away through sorrow or illness
- pious
- dutiful to parents devoted to religion
- piquant
- agreeably pungent stimulating
- pique
- hurt the pride or self-respect stir (curiosity)
- pitfall
- covered hole as a trap unsuspected danger
- pith
- essential part force soft liquid substance
- pivotal
- of great importance (others depend on it)
- placate
- soothe pacify calm
- plaintive
- mournful melancholy sorrowful
- plaque
- flat metal on a wall as a memorial
- platitude
- a trite or banal statement unoriginality
- plea
- request
- plead
- address a court of law as an advocate
- plethora
- glut
- pliant
- pliable easily bent shaped or twisted
- plod
- continue doing smth without resting
- pluck
- pull the feathers off pick (e.g.. flowers)
- plumb
- get to the root of
- plummet
- fall plunge steeply
- plunge
- move quickly suddenly and with force
- poignant
- deeply moving keen
- poncho
- large piece of cloth
- ponderous
- heavy bulky dull
- portent
- omen marvelous threatening
- precarious
- uncertain risky dangerous
- precepts
- rules establishing standards of conduct
- preclude
- prevent make impossible
- precursory
- preliminary anticipating
- predilection
- special liking mental preference
- predominate
- have more power than others
- preen
- tidy/show self-satisfaction
- premature
- doing or happening smth before the right time
- preponderance
- greatness in number strength weight
- presage
- warning sign
- presumption
- arrogance
- preternatural
- not normal or usual
- prevalent
- common
- prevaricate
- to equivocate to stray from the truth
- prim
- neat formal
- pristine
- primitive unspoiled pure as in earlier times unadulterated
- probity
- uprightness incorruptibility principle
- proclivity
- inclination
- procrastination
- keeping on putting off
- prodigal
- wasteful reckless with money
- prodigious
- enormous wonderful
- profane
- worldly having contempt for God
- profligacy
- shameless immorality
- profligate
- wasteful prodigal licentious extravagant
- profundity
- depth
- profuse
- abundant/lavish
- proliferate
- grow reproduce by rapid multification
- prolix
- tiring because too long
- prone
- prostrate inclined to (undesirable things)
- propagation
- increasing the number spreading extending
- propinquity
- nearness in time or place affinity of nature
- propitiatory
- conciliatory appeasing mitigating
- propitious
- auspicious presenting favorable circumstances
- prosaic
- everyday mundane commonplace trite pedestrian
- proscribe
- denounce as dangerous
- protracted
- prolonged
- provident
- frugal looking to the future
- provisional
- of the present time only
- provoke
- make angry vax
- prudence
- careful forethought
- prudish
- easily shocked excessively modest
- prune
- dried plum silly person
- pry
- get smth inquire too curiously
- pucker
- wrinkle
- pugnacious
- fond of in the habit of fighting
- puissance
- strength
- punctilious
- precise paying attention to trivialities