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Terms
undefined, object
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- obdurate
- stubborn
- obfuscate
- confuse, muddle, make needinglessly complex, cause confusion
- oblique
- indirect, slanting (not perpendicular or from straight line)
- obliterate
- destroy completely
- ominous
- threatening
- onset
- beginning, attack
- onus
- burden, responsibility
- opalescent
- iridescent, lustrous
- oppurtune
- timely, well chosen
- optimum
- most favorable
- obsequious
- slavishly attentive, servile, sycophantic
- obstetrician
- physician specializing in the delivery of babies
- obstreperous
- boisterous, noisy
- obtrude
- push (oneself or one's ideas) forward or intrude, butt in, stick out or extrude
- obviate
- make unnecessary, get rid of
- odium
- detestation, hatefullness, disrepute
- offhand
- casual, done without prior thought
- officious
- meddlesome, excessively pushy in offering one's services
- ogle
- look at amorously, make eyes at
- omniscient
- all-knowing
- onerous
- burdensome
- opus
- work
- oracular
- prophetic, uuttered as if with divine authority, mysterious or ambiguous
- ordain
- decree or command, grant holy orders, predestine
- ordeal
- severe trial or affliction
- ordinance
- decree
- ordination
- ceremony making someone a minister
- orient
- get one's bearings, adjust
- orientation
- act of finding oneself in society
- ornithologist
- scientific student of birds
- ornithology
- study of birds
- oscillate
- vibrate pendulumlike, waver
- ossify
- change or harden into bone
- ostenible
- apparent, professed, pretended
- outlandish
- bizarre, peculiar, unconventional
- outmoded
- no longer stylish, old-fashioned
- outskirts
- fringes, outer borders
- outstrip
- surpass, outdo
- overbearing
- bossy and arrogant, decisively important
- overt
- open to view
- overwrought
- extremely agitated, hysterical