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48 Terms

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  1. plaintive

  1. expressive of suffering or woe

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  1. portentous:

  1. of, relating to, or constituting an omen; eliciting amazement or wonder; being a grave or serious

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  1. semblance

  1. : outward and often specious appearance or show

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  1. penury:

  1. cramping and oppressive lack of resources (such as money)

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  1. desolate:

  1. devoid of inhabitants and visitors; joyless, disconsolate, and sorrowful through or as if through separation from a loved one; showing the effects of abandonment and neglect

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  1. ascetic

  1. : a person who dedicates their life to a pursuit of contemplative ideals and practices extreme self-denial or self-mortification for religious reasons.

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  1. sullen:

  1. gloomily or resentfully silent or repressed; dull or somber in sound or color; dismal, gloomy; moving sluggishly

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  1. peremptory:

  1. leaving no opportunity for denial or refusal

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  1. soporific:

  1. causing or tending to cause sleep

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  1. ludicrous:

  1. amusing or laughable through obvious absurdity, incongruity, exaggeration, or eccentricity

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  1. facade

  1. : the front of a building; a false, superficial, or artificial apperance or effect

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  1. approbation

  1. : commendation, praise; an act of approving formally or officially

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  1. interminable:

  1. having or seeming to have no end

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  1. calumny

  1. : a misrepresentation intended to harm another's reputation

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  1. acquiesce:

  1. to accept, agree, or comply usually by staying silent or by not arguing

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  1. propitious:

  1. favorable disposed; being a good omen, tending to favor

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  1. venerate:

  1. to regard with reverential respect or with admiring deference

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  1. phlegmatic

  1. : resembling, consisting of, or producing the humor phlegm; having or showing a slow and stolid temperament

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  1. enigma

  1. : something hard to understand or explain; an inscrutable or mysterious person; an obscure speech or writing

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  1. deprecate

  1. : to express disapproval of

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  1. noxious:

  1. physically harmful or destructive to living beings

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  1. assiduous:

  1. showing great care, attention, and effort: marked by careful unremitting attention or presistent solicitous: anxious or concerned

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  1. fastidious:

  1. an extremely or careful or detailed

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  1. insipid:

  1. lacking in qualities that interest, stimulate, or challenge

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  1. inveterate:

  1. confirmed in a habit

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  1. enervate:

  1. to deprive of force or strength; destroy the vigor of; trepidation: a nervous or fearful feeling of uncertain agitation

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  1. evince:

  1. to show clearly; make evident or manifest; prove.

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  1. engender:

  1. to cause to exist or to develop

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  1. capricious:

  1. governed or characterized by caprice : impulsive, unpredictable

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  1. countenance:

  1. facial expression

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  1. conjecture:

  1. the formation or expression of an opinion or theory without sufficient evidence for proof; to conclude or suppose from grounds or evidence insufficient to ensure reliability.

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  1. inexorable:

  1. not to be persuaded, stopped, or moved by entreaty or plea; relentless

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  1. sardonic:

  1. showing disrespect or scorn for someone or something

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  1. impetuous:

  1. marked by impulsive vehemence or passion

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  1. equivocal:

  1. subject to two or more interpretations and usually used to mislead or confuse

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  1. transitory:

  1. of brief duration

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  1. ephemeral:

  1. lasting a very short time; anything short-lived, such as certain flowers and insects.

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  1. obscure:

  1. not discovered or known about; uncertain; to conceal or conceal by confusing (the meaning of a statement, poem, etc.).

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  1. sanguine:

  1. marked by eager hopefulness : confidently optimistic; a red iron-oxide crayon used in making drawings.

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  1. prodigal:

  1. characterized by profuse or wasteful expenditure; a person who is wasteful of their money, possessions, etc.; spendthrift.

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  1. discern:

  1. to detect with the eyes

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languid:

drooping or flagging from or as if from exhaustion

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  1. sententious:

  1. given to or abounding in excessive moralizing

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  1. disposition:

  1. the usual attitude or mood of a person or animal

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  1. profligate:

  1. utterly and shamelessly immoral or dissipated; thoroughly dissolute; extravagant

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  1. apoplexy:

  1. stroke

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  1. insuperable:

  1. incapable of being surmounted, overcome, passed over, or solved

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  1. indefatigable:

  1. incapable of being tired