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Juxtaposition
The fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect.
Laconic
Using very few words; concise to the point of seeming rude or mysterious.
Languid
Weak or faint from illness or fatigue; slow and relaxed.
Largess
Generous giving of gifts or money to others.
Latent
Existing but not yet developed or obvious; hidden.
Legerdemain
Skillful use of one's hands when performing tricks; trickery.
Licentious
Lacking moral discipline or ignoring rules, especially in sexual conduct.
Limpid
Clear and transparent; easy to understand.
Maelstrom
A powerful whirlpool; a situation or state of confused movement or violent turmoil.
Magnanimous
Very generous or forgiving, especially toward a rival or someone less powerful.
Malediction
A magical word or phrase uttered with the intention of bringing about evil or destruction; a curse.
Malevolent
Having or showing a wish to do evil to others.
Manifold
Many and various.
Maudlin
Overly sentimental and tearfully emotional.
Mawkish
Sentimental in a feeble or sickly way.
Mendacious
Not telling the truth; lying.
Mercurial
Subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind.
Modicum
A small quantity of a particular thing, especially something desirable or valuable.
Morass
A complicated or confused situation that is difficult to escape from.
Multifarious
Many and of various types.
Munificence
Extreme generosity in giving.
Myriad
A countless or extremely great number.
Nascent
Just coming into existence and beginning to display signs of future potential.
Nefarious
(typically of an action or activity) Wicked or criminal.
Neophyte
A person who is new to a subject or activity; a beginner.
Obdurate
Stubbornly refusing to change one's opinion or course of action.
Obfuscate
To deliberately make something unclear or difficult to understand.
Oblique
Not explicit or direct in addressing a point; slanting.
Obsequious
Excessively eager to please or obey.
Obstreperous
Noisy and difficult to control.
Obtuse
Annoyingly insensitive or slow to understand.
Odious
Extremely unpleasant; repulsive.
Officious
Assertive of authority in an annoyingly domineering way.
Opulent
Showing great wealth and luxury.
Ostensible
Apparent or stated, but perhaps not true.
Palliate
To make a disease or its symptoms less severe without removing the cause.
Pallid
Pale, typically because of poor health.
Panacea
A solution or remedy for all difficulties or diseases.
Paragon
A person or thing regarded as a perfect example of a particular quality.
Pariah
A social outcast.
Parsimony
Extreme unwillingness to spend money or use resources.
Pathos
A quality that evokes pity or sadness.
Paucity
The presence of something only in small or insufficient quantities.
Pejorative
A word or phrase expressing contempt or disapproval.
Pellucid
Translucently clear.
Penurious
Extremely poor; poverty-stricken.
Perfidious
Deceitful and untrustworthy.
Perfunctory
Done without care or interest; superficial.
Pernicious
Having a harmful effect, especially in a gradual or subtle way.
Perspicacity
The quality of having a ready insight into things; shrewdness.
Pertinacious
Holding firmly to an opinion or course of action.
Petulance
The quality of being childishly sulky or bad-tempered.
Pithy
Concise and forcefully expressive.
Platitude
A remark or statement that has been used too often to be interesting or thoughtful.
Plethora
An excess or large amount of something.
Polemic
A strong verbal or written attack on someone or something.
Portent
A sign or warning that something, especially something momentous or calamitous, is likely to happen.
Precocious
Having developed certain abilities or proclivities at an earlier age than usual.
Prescient
Having knowledge of events before they take place.
Primeval
Of the earliest time in history.
Probity
The quality of having strong moral principles; honesty.
Proclivity
A natural tendency to do something.
Promulgate
To officially announce or make known.
Propensity
A natural inclination or tendency to behave in a particular way.
Propitious
Giving or indicating a good chance of success; favorable.
Prosaic
Lacking poetic beauty; commonplace.
Proscribe
To forbid or prohibit.
Protean
Able to change frequently or easily; versatile.
Prurient
Having or encouraging an excessive interest in sexual matters.
Puerile
Childishly silly or trivial.
Pugnacious
Eager or quick to argue or fight.
Pulchritude
Physical beauty.
Punctilious
Showing great attention to detail or correct behavior.
Quagmire
A difficult, precarious, or entrapping position.
Querulous
Complaining in a petulant or whining manner.
Quixotic
Extremely idealistic; unrealistic and impractical.
Rancor
Bitterness or resentfulness, especially when long-standing.
Rebuke
Express sharp disapproval or criticism.
Recalcitrant
Having an obstinately uncooperative attitude.
Rectitude
Morally correct behavior or thinking; righteousness.
Replete
Filled or well-supplied with something.
Reprobate
A morally unprincipled person.
Reprove
To reprimand or censure someone.
Repudiate
To refuse to accept or be associated with.
Rescind
To revoke, cancel, or repeal (a law, order, or agreement).
Restive
Unable to keep still or silent; restless.
Ribald
Referring to sexual matters in an amusingly rude or irreverent way.
Rife
(especially of something undesirable) Widespread.
Ruse
A trick or strategy used to deceive someone.
Sacrosanct
Regarded as too important or valuable to be interfered with.
Sagacity
The quality of being wise or having good judgment.
Salient
Most noticeable or important.
Sanctimonious
Making a show of being morally superior to others.
Sanguine
Optimistic or positive, especially in a difficult situation.
Scurrilous
Making or spreading scandalous claims about someone with the intention of damaging their reputation.
Servile
Having or showing an excessive willingness to serve or please others.
Solicitous
Showing concern or care for someone's well-being.
Solipsistic
Believing that oneself is all that exists.
Somnolent
Sleepy or drowsy.
Spurious
Not being what it pretends to be; false or fake.