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Hackneyed |
adj. worn-out through overuse; trite |
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Haggard |
adj. showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering |
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Halcyon |
adj. idyllically calm and peaceful |
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Hallow |
v. to make holy; consecrate |
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Harangue |
n. a long, passionate speech v. to give a long, passionate speech |
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Harbinger |
n. one that indicates or foreshadows what is to come |
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Harrow |
v. to distress, create stress or torment |
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Hermetic |
adj. completely sealed |
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Hubris |
n. overbearing pride or presumption |
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Hyperbole |
n. a figure of speech that uses an incredible exaggeration, or overstatement for effect. |
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Impervious |
adj.incapable of being penetrated or affected |
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Impetuous |
adj.characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation |
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Implore |
v. beg or plead urgently |
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Inconspicuous |
adj. not prominent or readily noticeable |
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Indiscriminate |
adj.lacking in judgment, haphazard |
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Indolent |
(adj.) habitually lazy, slow to develop or heal |
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Innocuous |
(adj.) unlikely to harm or disturb anyone |
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Insidious |
(adj.) working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way |
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Intimate |
(v.) Announce, notify |
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Inveterate |
(adj.) confirmed in a habit |
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jaded |
adj. worn out; wearied |
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jape |
noun and verb. (n)to joke or quip; to make sport of (v) to joke or quip |
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jargon |
(n.) incoherent, meaningless talk |
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jaunty |
(adj.) having a buoyant or self-confident air;brisk |
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jibe |
(v.) to be in accord;agree |
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jocular |
(adj.) marked by joking |
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jocund |
(adj.) sprightly and light hearted in disposition, character of quality |
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jostle |
(n) a rough shove or push. (v) to come in rough contact while moving;push or shove |
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jounce |
(n) a rough jolting movement. (v) to move or cause to move with bumps or jolts |
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juxtapose |
(v.) to place side by side |
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Nefarious |
(adj.) very wicked, villainous, extremely wicked |
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Nihilism |
(noun.) Rejection of all distinctions in moral or religious value and a willingness to repudiate all previous theories of morality or religious belief. |
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Normative |
(adj.) of or establishing a norm or standard; having to do with the usage norms, |
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Noxious |
(adj.) Harmful to the mind or morals; corrupting |
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Numinous |
(adj.) having a deeply spiritual effect |
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Obdurate |
(adj.)Hardened in wrongdoing or wickedness; Hardened against feeling; hardhearted |
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Obtuse |
(adj.)Lacking quickness of perception or intellect |
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Occlude |
(v.tr)to block passage through |
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Opprobrium |
(noun.)a state of Disgrace arising from exceedingly shameful conduct; ignominy |
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Ostensible |
(adj.) Represented or appearing as such |
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Laden |
(v.tr.) To burden or oppress; weigh down.;To load with or as if with cargo. |
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Lampoon |
(n.) A written attack ridiculing a person, group, or institution.; (v.) ridicule with satire |
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Languor |
(n.) Lack of physical or mental energy; listlessness. |
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Laud |
(v.tr )To give praise to; glorify. (n.) praise |
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Libertine |
(n.)One who acts without moral restraint; a dissolute person. (adj.)Morally unrestrained; dissolute |
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Lilliputian |
(adj.) Very small; diminutive;Trivial; petty. |
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Limn |
(v.tr.)To describe; To depict by painting or drawing. |
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Limpid |
(adj.) Characterized by transparent clearness; Easily intelligible |
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Lucid |
(adj.)Mentally sound; sane or rational; Translucent or transparent. |
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Lumber |
(v.tr.)To walk or move with heavy clumsiness. |
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Malevolent |
(adj.)Having or exhibiting ill will; wishing harm to others; malicious. |
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Malleable |
(adj.)Easily controlled or influenced; tractable. |
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Maunder |
(intr.v.) To talk incoherently or aimlessly; To move or act aimlessly or vaguely |
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Mendicant |
(n.)A member of an order of friars forbidden to own property in common, who work or beg for their living |
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Mince |
(v.tr.)To pronounce in an affected way, as with studied elegance and refinement. (v.intr.)To walk with very short steps or with exaggerated primness. |
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Misanthrope |
(n.) One who hates or mistrusts humankind. |
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Mitigate |
(verb- tr.& int.)To moderate (a quality or condition) in force or intensity; alleviate |
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Multifarious |
(adj.)having many aspects |
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Mundane |
(adj)commonplace; ordinary |
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Mercurial |
(adj.)liable to sudden unpredictable change; relating to or having characteristics (eloquence, shrewdness, swiftness, thievishness) attributed to the god Mercury |
