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1. epithet (noun)
epithetic adjective or epithetical
2. epithetical
3. prescience (noun)
prescient adjective
presciently adverb
4. prelate
5. romp
6. rake (noun)
7. purchase
8. orotant
9. remonstrate (verb)
remonstration noun
remonstrative adjective
remonstratively adverb
remonstrator noun
10. skittish (adjective)
11. acceding
intransitive verb acceded, acceding
accedence noun
acceder noun
12. restive (adjective)
restively adverb
restiveness noun
13. prosaic (adjective)
prosaically adverb
prosaicness noun
14. waggish
15. slovenly
(adjective)
16. lurid
(adjective)
17. numinous
adjective
18. circumlocution noun
cirˌcum·locˌu·toˈri·ly (-lŏkˌyə-tôrˈə-lē, -tōrˈ-) adverb
cirˌcum·locˈu·toˌry (-tôrˌē, -tōrˌē) adjective
19. specious (adjective)
20. bandy (verb)
21. abut
22. apropos (adverb)
23. bait
24. throwback
25. deign
26. fiduciary
27. obdurate
28. proscribe
29. dissemble (verb)
30. punctilious (adjective)
31. acquiesce(verb)
32. opprobrium (noun)
33. acrid
34. precept
35. ntransigent
36. tenable
37. perspicacious
38. abstruse
39. thrifty
40. ephemeral
41. plutocracy
42. expect
43. anticipate
44. tenuous
45. didactic
46. fanciful
47. miserly
48. sedulous
49. foppish adj.
fopˈpish·ly adverb
fopˈpish·ness noun
50. ellipsis
51. expatiate
52. enfranchise
53. inimical
inimically adverb
54. low (adj)
lowness noun
55. insensible
56. ignoble (adjective)
ignobleness noun
ignobly adverb
57. ineluctable
ineluctability noun
ineluctably adverb
58. Suffrage (noun)
59. Syb·a·rit·ic (adj)
60. infallible (adj)
61. brook
verb (used with object)
62. hypocritical
hyp·o·crit·i·cal·ly, adverb
63. lout (noun or verb)
64. prig (noun)
65. cloddish (adjective)
cloddishly, adverb
cloddishness, noun
66. clod (noun)
67. bur·lesque noun
bur·lesqued adj
bur·lesquing adj
68. frisson
69. legerdemain
70. raconteur
71. truculence
72. canard noun
73. wheedling
74. unremitting
75. patois
76. fabulists
77. doggerel
78. evince
79. disportments
80. claque
81. bluster
82. hubristic
83. inveigh
84. inviegle
85. proleptic
86. waggish
87. peccadillo
88. emend
89. animadversion
90. condign
91. flagitious
92. antediluvian
93. costive
94. bathetic
95. bathos
96. nugatory
97. woebegone
98. effulgent
99. ep·au·let
100. Myrmidon
101. abjure v
abjure v
102. affable
103. alacrity
104. arcane
105. assuage
106. aver
107. canonical
108. castigate
craven 109.
disabuse
disingenuous
egregious
gainsay
gauche
germane
hearken
inchoate
incipient
lampoon
lassitude
libertine
mendacious
mores
obviate
occult
officious
pariah
perfidious
potentate
presumptuous
pretentious
prodigal
prodigious
profligate
prosaic
proscribe
quibble
quotidian
requite
rhetoric
sanguine
slew
solicitious
spartan
speculate
sportive
abase
abeyance
accede
adumbrate
aerie
antedate
apostate
apostle
apposite
approbation
asperity
axiom
baying
bilk
blithe
bonhomie
bucolic
circumscribe
collusion
complaisant
contrite
contumacious
cosset (verb)
cupidity (noun)
curmudgeon
declaim
declivity
demagogue
demur (verb)
diaphonous
dictum
dilettante
discomfitting
dissemble
distaff
dither
doctrinaire
diurnal
dovetail
droll
dyspeptic
edify
effrontery
encomium
equanimity
ersatz
erstwhile
ethos
euphemism
euphony
exigent
expedient
fatuous
ford
fractious
glower
graft
halcyon
harrow
hew
hoary
iconoclast
imperious
incarnadine
ingratiate
iniquity
insurrection
interregnum
intransigent
inveigle
investiture (noun)
jettison
jingoism
leery
licentious
limpid
lionize
lugubrious
lumber
maelstrom
martinet
maudlin
meretricious
militate
modish
multifarous
munificent
neophyte
nettle
noisome
normative (adverb)
opprobrium
ostensible or ostensive
overwrought
panegyric
parley (noun, verb)
parry
pastiche (noun)
pejorative
phalanx
philistine
phlegmatic
platitude (noun)
polyglot
posit
propitiate
propitious
providential
recant
recondite
recrudescent
redound
rend
repast
repose
ribald
rococo
sardonic
seraphic
solecism
sedition
squelch
stint (noun, verb)
stratagem
supplant
tendentious
toady
tome
travesty
trenchant
turgid
turpitude
umbrage
unsparing
upbraid
usury (noun)
vangaurd
verdant
verisimilar
vernal
vicissitude
vim
viscid
voluble
wan
wanton
welter (noun, verb)
whitewash
wizened
yoke (noun, verb)
pillory
corsair
lucubration
ap·pel·la·tion [ap-uh-ley-shuhn]
al·ba·tross [al-buh-traws, -tros]
noun
reg·i·cide [rej-uh-sahyd]
noun
ar·rant [ar-uhnt]
adj
ar·ro·gate [ar-uh-geyt]
verb (used with object), ar·ro·gat·ed, ar·ro·gat·ing.
inform
Countenance
Decry
divest
ensure vs insure
estimable
ethos
Inordinate
insular
Investiture
levy
oligarchy
Sanction
semantic
subvert
armstice
undergird
per·ti·na·cious [pur-tn-ey-shuhs]
adjective
i·de·o·logue [ahy-dee-uh-lawg, -log, id-ee-, ahy-dee-]
noun
di·va·gate [dahy-vuh-geyt] Show IPA
verb (used without object), di·va·gat·ed, di·va·gat·ing.
euphemism
vas·sal [vas-uhl] Show IPA
noun
serf [surf] Show IPA
noun
min·ion [min-yuhn] Show IPA
noun
mien [meen] Show IPA
noun
li·bel·ous [lahy-buh-luhs] Show IPA
adjective
de·crep·i·tude [dih-krep-i-tood, -tyood] Show IPA
noun
a·poth·e·o·sis [uh-poth-ee-oh-sis, ap-uh-thee-uh-sis] Show IPA
noun, plural a·poth·e·o·ses [uh-poth-ee-oh-seez, ap-uh-thee-uh-seez] Show IPA .
ple·o·nasm [plee-uh-naz-uhm] Show IPA
noun
coun·ter·mand [v. koun-ter-mand, -mahnd, koun-ter-mand, -mahnd; n. koun-ter-mand, -mahnd] Show IPA
verb (used with object)
phi·lol·o·gy [fi-lol-uh-jee] Show IPA
noun
men·di·cant [men-di-kuhnt] Show IPA
adjective
pros·e·lyte [pros-uh-lahyt] Show IPA noun, verb, pros·e·lyt·ed, pros·e·lyt·ing.
noun
o·pus [oh-puhs] Show IPA
noun, plural o·pus·es
pro·pin·qui·ty [proh-ping-kwi-tee] Show IPA
noun
sidle verb
traipse [treyps] Show IPA verb, traipsed, traips·ing, noun Informal.
verb (used without object)
il·lu·mi·na·ti [ih-loo-muh-nah-tee, -ney-tahy] Show IPA
plural noun, singular il·lu·mi·na·to [ih-loo-muh-nah-toh, -ney-] Show IPA .
co·gno·scen·ti [kon-yuh-shen-tee, kog-nuh-] Show IPA
plural noun, singular co·gno·scen·te [kon-yuh-tee, kog-nuh-] Show IPA .
pee·vish [pee-vish] Show IPA
adjective
risible
sophistry
in·cor·ri·gi·ble [in-kawr-i-juh-buhl, -kor-] Show IPA
adjective
im·pu·is·sant [im-pyoo-uh-suhnt, im-pyoo-is-uhnt, im-pwis-uhnt] Show IPA
adjective
pu·sil·lan·i·mous [pyoo-suh-lan-uh-muhs] Show IPA
adjective
animadversion
vitiate
an·cho·rite [ang-kuh-rahyt] Show IPA
noun
ma·chic·o·la·tion [muh-chik-uh-ley-shuhn] Show IPA
noun Architecture .
o·bei·sance [oh-bey-suhns, oh-bee-] Show IPA
noun
crotchety
kow·tow [kou-tou, -tou, koh-] Show IPA
verb (used without object)
es·chew [es-choo] Show IPA
verb (used with object)
ab·ne·gate [ab-ni-geyt] Show IPA
verb (used with object), ab·ne·gat·ed, ab·ne·gat·ing.
cantankerous
filch [filch] Show IPA
verb (used with object)
commutation
col·lo·qui·um [kuh-loh-kwee-uhm] Show IPA
noun, plural col·lo·qui·ums, col·lo·qui·a [kuh-loh-kwee-uh] Show IPA .
adduce
cloistered
mirth [murth] Show IPA
noun
Jou"is*sance
fiat
morass
colloquy
callow
salvo
depravity
pl. depravities
me·phit·ic
in·vet·er·ate [in-vet-er-it] Show IPA
adjective
e·pis·te·mol·o·gy [ih-pis-tuh-mol-uh-jee]
noun
on·tol·o·gy [on-tol-uh-jee]
noun
jejune
adjective
feckless
lascivious
defray
choleric
base
exegesis
fac·tious [fak-shuhs] Show IPA
adjective
arrant
adj.
kowtow
Byz·an·tine
ex·pan·sive
hector
overweening
beg
anathema
fell
parvenu
arch
adjective
be·night·ed [bih-nahy-tid]
adjective
ve·ni·al [vee-nee-uhl, veen-yuhl] Show IPA
adjective
pyrrhic
palimpsest
jejune
imbroglio
mulct
quisling
jaundiced
sententious
picayune
execrate
schadenfreude
sangfroid
blinkered
phantasmagoria
mettlesome
quail
verb
insouciant
hag·i·og·ra·phy [hag-ee-og-ruh-fee, hey-jee-] Show IPA
noun, plural hag·i·og·ra·phies.
enjoin
verb
probity
redoubtable
bowdlerize
internecine
ˌintərˈnesēn,-ˈnēsēn,-sin
inter-knee-sign
pontificate
hautuer
ethereal
appropriate
gumption
gumption
autocratic
callow
enormity
doughty
bromide
desideratum
discursive
conflate
pa·ro·chi·al [puh-roh-kee-uhl]
adjective
val·e·dic·to·ry [val-i-dik-tuh-ree]
adjective, noun, plural val·e·dic·to·ries.
adjective
ce·ler·i·ty [suh-ler-i-tee]
noun
tan1 [tan]
verb, tanned, tan·ning, noun, adjective, tan·ner, tan·nest.
verb (used with object)
ex·cep·tion·a·ble [ik-sep-shuh-nuh-buhl]
adjective
ex·cep·tion·a·ble·ness, noun
ex·cep·tion·a·bly, adverb
can·ny [kan-ee]
can·ni·er, can·ni·est, adverb
adjective
tes·sel·lat·ed [tes-uh-ley-tid]
adjective
ep·i·taph [ep-i-taf, -tahf] Show IPA
noun
jer·e·mi·ad [jer-uh-mahy-uhd, -ad]
noun
in·den·ture [in-den-cher] noun,
verb, in·den·tured, in·den·tur·ing.
noun
arraign
skein
ennui
rhapsodize
sten·to·ri·an [sten-tawr-ee-uhn, -tohr-] Show IPA
adjective
hal·low1 [hal-oh] Show IPA
verb (used with object)
despoil
(verb used with object)
pro·pound [pruh-pound] Show IPA
verb (used with object)
skullduggery
Trenchant
Descry
runic
uncanny
profane
derogate
sanguinity
fes·toon
rebuff
