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Words 07
- affable:
easy to speak to; also, gracious.
- noisome:
offensive or disgusting; also, harmful;
unwholesome.
- exacerbate:
to aggravate; to make worse.
- misnomer:
a misnaming.
- lackadaisical:
lacking spirit or liveliness.
- hauteur:
haughtiness; arrogance.
- skulk:
to hide in a sneaking manner.
- voluble:
characterized by a ready flow of speech.
- ostracize:
to banish or expel.
- autocrat:
a ruler with unlimited authority.
- beholden:
obliged; indebted.
- aplomb:
confidence; coolness.
- disheveled:
in loose disorder; disarranged.
- precocious:
characterized by or characteristic of exceptionally early development.
- reticent:
inclined to keep silent.
- legerdemain:
sleight of hand.
- vituperate:
to overwhelm with wordy abuse.
- foment:
to nurse to life or activity; to incite.
- contumely:
rudeness compounded of haughtiness and contempt.
- philomath:
a lover of learning; a scholar.
- aesthete:
one who cultivates great sensitivity to beauty.
- nefarious:
wicked in the extreme.
- proclivity:
a natural inclination.
- flout:
to treat with contempt and disregard.
- sesquipedalian:
(of words) long; having many syllables.
- inchoate:
partly but not fully in existence or operation.
- circumlocution:
the use of many words to express an idea that might be expressed by few.
- wayworn:
wearied by traveling.
- potable:
drinkable; also, a beverage, especially an
alcoholic one.
- crepuscular:
pertaining to twilight.
- doppelganger:
a ghostly double.