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Words 07

Feb 07

  1. pellucid: transparent, clear; also, easily understandable.

  2. moribund: dying.

  3. roseate: cheerful; bright; also, rose-colored.

  4. conspectus: a sketch, survey, or outline of a subject.

  5. missive: a written message; a letter.

  6. genial: sympathetically cheerful and cheering; kindly.

  7. idee fixe: a fixed idea; an obsession.

  8. Pyrrhic victory: a victory achieved at great cost.

  9. bucolic: rustic; pastoral.

  10. crux: the essential point or feature.

  11. satiety: fullness to or beyond the point of satisfaction.

  12. vivify: to endue with life; to enliven.

  13. slaver: to slobber; to drool.

  14. beau ideal: a perfect or an idealized type or model.

  15. raffish: tawdry; also, rakish.

  16. impregnable: able to resist attack.

  17. doyen: the senior member of a body or group.

  18. sonorous: yielding sound; impressive in sound.

  19. turbid: muddy; not clear; also, confused; disordered.

  20. apogee: the highest point.

  21. hoi polloi: the common people; the masses.

  22. malodorous: having a bad odor.

  23. lapidary: of or pertaining to stone cutting; also, terse or refined in expression.

  24. hardscrabble: barren, marginal; also, marked by poverty.

  25. enjoin: to direct or impose with authority; also, to forbid.

  26. sycophant: one who seeks favor by flattery; a toady.

  27. ambit: circuit or compass; also, sphere of action or influence.

  28. surreptitious: done, made, or gotten by stealth; also, marked by stealth.

Mar 07