| Term | Definition |
|---|
| obsequious | servile; ready to fall in to the wishes or will of another |
| obstreperous | obnoxious; boisterously and noisily aggressive |
| odious | hateful; unequivocally detestable |
| onerous | burdensome, oppressive |
| palpable | perceptible by feeling or touch; you can feel it |
| parsimonious | frugal; excessively unwilling to spend |
| pernicious | exceedingly harmful, deadly, fateful |
| profligate | recklessly wasteful |
| pugnacious | quarrelsome; ready and able to resort to force or violence; combative; belligerent |
| pristine | primitive, untouched |
| quixotic | chivalrous or romantic to a ridiculous or extravagant degree. |
| recalcitrant | stubbornly resistant |
| ribald | humorously vulgar; wanton, profane |
| remiss | negligent, exhibiting carelessness |
| puerile | childish, immature |
| salacious | lewd, lusty; suggestive of or tending to moral looseness |
| salient | pertinent; standing out prominently; conspicuous, highly relevant, prominent |
| sardonic | scornfully or bitterly sarcastic |
| soporific | causing sleep, inducing mental lethargy |
| superfluous | extra, more than is needed |
| taciturn | calm, quiet, disinclined to conversation |
| terse | pithy, using few words; brief and to the point |
| transient | temporary, ephemeral |
| truculent | defiantly aggressive; aggressively hostile |
| ubiquitous | omnipresent; present everywhere |
| vehement | very eager or urgent |
| verbose | wordy, prolix |
| verdant | green with vegetation |
| vituperative | overwhelming with wordy abuse; containing or characterized by verbal abuse |
| vociferous | loud, making a loud outcry |
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