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Term Definition
Obfuscate to confuse; to make obscurel; to darken
Obliterate to remove utterly from recognition, memory or existence
Obsequious subservient; fawningly attentive; sucking up to
Odoriferous having an odor; smelly; morallly offensive
Officious meddlesome; annoyingly eager to butt in or advise
Omnificent unlimited in creative powers
Omnipresent universally present; present everywhere at once
Omnivorous taking in everything; devouring or consuming anything and everything
Onomatopoeia the use of words, the sounds of which convey their sense or meaning
Onus blame, burden
Oracular like an oracle; uttered or delivered as though divinely inspired and infallible; can be dictatorial
Orthodox very strict, conventional; by established rules or doctrines, particularly religious ones; by the book
Ostensible professed; apparent, but not necessarily so
Ostracism banishment or exclusion by consensus
Oxymoron a combination of contradictory or incongruous words
Pagan one with no religious restraints; delights in sensual pleasures and material things; hedonistic person
Palliate to relieve or moderate the intensity of; to assuage
Palpable capable of being felt or touched; real
Panacea a cure-all; a remedy for all problems and difficulties
Paradigm a model or example; an archetype
Paternal like a father; fatherly
Patrician person of noble birth; an aristocrat
Paucity lack of; scarcity
Pedantic over attention to small detail; small-minded, stodgy, unimaginative
Peevish perversely stubborn, characterized by ill temper or moodiness
Penchant strong taste, liking, or inclination; predilection
Penultimate next to the last
Peremptory categorical; dictatorial; allowing no contradiction
Perfidy act of disloyalty; treachery
Perfunctory mechanically, unenthusiastically; apathetic
Perjury to lie under oath
Perquisite privilege or benefit that comes along with a job; beyond salary
Peruse to examine with great detail, read through something very carefully
Pettifogger petty, unscrupulous; a shyster; also, one who quibbles over trifles
Philippic harsh, bitter verbal attack
Phylogeny the evolutionary history of a kind of organism; history or development of a word or custom
Pique to arouse anger or resentment, irritate, provoke
Platitude a meaningless truism; cliche, dull remark
Plenitude great sufficiency; abundance
Polarize to divide into oposing extremes or factions
Ponderous heavy; massive; dull; so large as to be clumsy
Precedent an earlier example or model on which something is now based
Precipitate to cause to happen (usually suddenly)
Preempt to take the place of; to seize upon to the exclusion of something or someone else
Prevail to triumph, win out, overcome adversity
Pristine unspoiled, clean, pure
Procreate to produce offspring; to reproduce
Prodigious enormous; monstrous; extraordinary
Proficient highly competent; skillful; expert
Profound deep, either in the physical sense or intellecturally
Progeny offspring, descendants, children
Prolific fruitful, fertile; abundantly productive
Promulgate to proclaim; to declare; to make publicly known
Propitious favorable, auspicious, advantageous; benevolent
Prosaic dull, ordinary, everyday; unimaginative
Proselytize to actively seek to convert to a belief, usually religious; to recruit to your point of view
Provincial narrow, limited in viewpoint or attitude
Puerile childish, silly, juvenile
Purloin to acquire wrongfully, usually through a breach of trust; to steal
Putative commonly accepted; supposed, reputed
Pyrrhic victory an empty, not worthwhile "victory", because the cost is too high a price to pay
Quantify to set the number of; to make clear or express the quantity involved
Querulous constantly complaining; whining, fretful
Quiescent quiet; showing no sign of activity; latent, in repose
Quintessence the essence of a thing
Quixotic capricious; unpredictable, foolishly romantic or idealistic; impractical
Raiment clothing, garments
Rampike a still standing, but broken, or dead tree
Rapacious greedily excessive; voracious, ravenous, plundering
Raucous boisterously loud and disorderly
Reclusive withdrawn from society; solitary, hermitlike
Recondite difficult to understand; deep, obscure, beyond comprehension
Redundant excessive repetition; superfluous, repetitive
Regale to entertain by providing a lavish feast; to delight with things that are pleasing or amusing
Relegate to send into exile; to banish, or assign appropriately
Remuneration payment, compensation
Reparation payment for damage done, make amends by compensations
Repast meal, mealtime; feast
reprove to critisize kindly, mildly
Restive fidgety, characterized by restlessness
Revere to regard highly; to honor, hold in great esteem, respect
Ribald crude, offensive; coarse
Roil to stir up, disturb, rile
Ruminate to ponder over, mull over, contemplate
Rustic rural, lacking in sophistication and polish; primitive
Saccharine overly sweet; phony sweet; too sweet, disgustingly so
Sacrilege blasphemy; a violation of the holy or sacred
Sagacity wisdom; shrewdness, keenness of insight or judgment
Salinize to treat with salt, impregnate with salt
Salvo a volley of fire; a sudden burst; a spirited verbal attack
Sanguine healthy, optimistic; hopeful, cheerful
Saturnine sullen, gloomy, surly; slow to act or change
Scintillate to sparkle, literally or figuratively
Scrupulous careful, painstaking; upright; having moral integrity
Scuttlebutt rumor, gossip, word around town
Sedition incitement of resistance to, or rebellion against, established authority; treason
Sensory of or relating to sensation or the senses
Sentient able to perceive by the senses; aware
Serendipity faculty of finding valuable things without seeking; accidental good fortune
Servile subservient; abject; like a slave or servant
Shunt to move or turn to one side; to switch from one track to another
Specious seemingly so; deceptively plausible, falsely attractive; appearing true and genuine reality
Spurious false, fake
Staid grave, sober, serious
Stature status or rank gained through achievement, growth, and development
Stealth imperceptible movement; unobstrusive; unnoticed; hidden; undercover
Stigmatize to label negatively, brand with shame or disgrace
Stipulate to set forth, express what is required in an agreement or statement
Stoic outwardly indifferent, not showin emotion, reaction, or response
Stuporous as if in a stupor; lethargic, apathetic, dull and dazed
Subjective from a personal, not objective or detached, point of view
Subordinate secondary in importance; lower in position
Substantive real, having substance, solid
Succumb to give in to; to yield, including, to die
Superfluous more than what is necessary; redundant
Surreal having the intense irrational reality of a dream
Surrogate substitute (person) deputy
Svelte slender, lithe, smooth
Sycophant a servile, self-seeking flatterer; one who sucks up to others; a parasite
Symbiotic the joining of two dissimilar organisms in a mutually beneficial relationship
Tabloid half the page size of ordinary newspapers, condensed news, many photos-tended toward gossip and exaggeration
Taciturn temperamentally disinclined to talk; silent
Tangential slightly connected
Tantalize to tease, excite, work up interest in
Tarry to delay, linger, stay
Tessellated having a checkered appearance; adorned with a mosaic
Tenable reasonable, defensible
Tenet a principle, belief or doctrine shared by a group
Termagant an overbearing woman; a nag
Teetotaler one who abstains completely from drinking alcohol
Toothsome attractive, including sexually; also, palatable, delicious
Transcend to rise above; to surpass
Transgress to sin; to violate a law or command
Transmogrify to change, transform, alter greatly, often with grotesque or humorous results
Truculent belligerent, scathingly harsh; vitriolic; destructive
Twerp silly, insignificant, or contemptible person
Ubiquitous widespread; everywhere at once; encountered constantly
Umpteenth too many times to be countable
Uncouth lacking in polish or grace; uncultivated in appearance or behavior
Undulate to move like the flow of a wave; fluctuate
Unremitting incessant; relentless; constant
Unwitting not aware of the full facts, not intentional
Urbane sophisticated; suave; polished
Usurp to seize power by force or without right
Utilitarian pragmatic; valuing usefulness above all
Vacuous empty; stupid, inane
Venerate to revere, to honor
Veracity truthfulness; honesty
Verdant not ripe in experience or judgment
Verity something fundamentally true; state of being honest
Vestige remaining mark, sign, or trace of something
Viable sustainable; capable of living, developing, functioning; viable seeds, viable options
Vicissitude changes in fortune; fluctuation in state or conditions, usually hardships, beyond one's control
Vigilant ever watchful; keeping watch, ever alert, awake
Vindictive revengeful; seeking revenge
Virtuoso singularly excellent in a particular field
Vitiate to spoil or impair the quality or efficiency of
Vituperative given to censure and verbal abuse
Volatility explosiveness; instablility
Waggish roguishly or mischievously merry; playful
Wanderlust strong impulse or desire to move about or travel
Wanton malicious; merciless without provocation; also, lewd, lustful, bawdy
Welsh to not pay a debt; to break one's word
Wizen to be or become dry, shrunken, shriveled, usually through aging
Xenophobia fear and hatred of things and people that are foreign or strange
Yeoman one who performs great and loyal service
Zenith highest point attainable; culminating point; acme

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Creator lharvick
Created April 22, 2007
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lharvick : Changed Onomatopoeia → the use of woreds, the sounds of which convey their sense or meaning to Onomatopoeia → the use of words, the sounds of which convey their sense or meaning
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  1. Officious → meddlesome; annoyingly eager to butt in or advise - 1 miss
  2. Omnificent → unlimited in creative powers - 1 miss
  3. Omnivorous → taking in everything; devouring or consuming anything and everything - 1 miss
  4. Onus → blame, burden - 1 miss
  5. Oracular → like an oracle; uttered or delivered as though divinely inspired and infallible; can be dictatorial - 1 miss
  6. Orthodox → very strict, conventional; by established rules or doctrines, particularly religious ones; by the book - 1 miss
  7. Ostracism → banishment or exclusion by consensus - 1 miss