english 50 word
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erikbachrach123 on June 12, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 perfunctory | adj-done with no effort or thought |
| abysmal | adj-terrible, extremely bad; very deep |
| solipsistic | adj-beleiving only oneself exsists; highly self centered |
| ostentatious | adj-flashy, intended to impress others |
| parasile | n-someone who without giving anything back, benefits from others |
| saprophytic | living on dead or decaying organic matter |
| indigent | adj-extremely poor, lacking necesities of life |
| gauche | unsophisticated, make social situations difficult |
| taciturn | adj-inclined to be untalkative |
| haridan | n- mean old woman |
| epic | adj- large scale, heroic, grand in scale or scope |
| schadenfreude | n- satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone misfortune |
| palindrome | a word or phrase spelled indenticaly backward or fowards |
| juxtaposed | verb- to place side by side to show contrast |
| turgid | adj--- swollen |
| troglodytic | adj- living in a cave, an old, outmoded way or thinking/living |
| persiflage | noun-- playful, teasing talk, done in light tone |
| esophoric | adj- cross eyed |
| banal | common place, ordinary to the point of being uninteresting |
| philistine | one with no knowledge or interest in culture |
| procrastinator | one who delays in doing something, or postpone work, often out of laziness |
| dissembles | verb-- to hide ones reason for saying or doing, something to conceal ones feelings or beleifs |
| vicariously | adj-- experienced through imagined participation in actions or accomplishments of other people |
| eponym | noun-- a word based on or derived from a persons name |
| sanguine | adj-- enthuisiasticaly optimistic |
| anodyne | noun- a pain killer adj- unlikely to provoke |
| ambivalence | adj- lacking the ability to decide having general mixed feelings about something |
| fastidious | adj- characterized by heightened attention to detail, hard to please |
| captious | adj- hard to please finding fault and raising trivial objections |
| distended | verb- to swell as a result of interior pressure |
| advocate/advocated | verb- to support publicly noun- a public supporter |
| utilitarian | adj- useful rather than make pretty or showy |
| deprave | verb- to make immoral, to corrupt |
| polygamy | noun- the state or practice of having multiple spouses |
| predatory | adj- characterized by exploited or victimized others |
| flippant | adj- marked by or displaying disrespectful or innapropriate levity |
| vestigial | adj- showing a trace of something no longer exists or is no longer practiced |
| grandiloquent | adj- expressed in an elaborate or pompous style |
| askew | adj- not level or even |
| obtuse | adj- show to understand or perceive, difficult to understand |
| asinine | adj- stupid foolish |
| monomanical | adj- excessively obsessed with one particular thing to exclusion of everything else |
| anachronism | noun-- something or someone in the wrong time period |
| hedonist | noun- one who embraces the idea that sensual pleasure is the aim in life |
| soporific | adj- boring or monotonious inducing sleep |
| cacaphanous | noun- harsh sounding composed of disagreeable sounds |
| mawkish | adj- excessively and overly sentimental so much so that nausea or loathing can result |
| apotheosis | noun- elevation of a person to godlike status, ideal example |
| superfluos | adj- unnecessary, more than needed |
| paradox | noun- a statement that is seemingly contradictory or absurd, and yet may be true |
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