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| displaying and offensively condesending mannor, treating someone as if they were lower than you |
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| arrogant, haughty, disdainful |
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| Dramatic, of or realating to drama |
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| a person who has an unusual peculiar or odd personality, set of beliefs or behavior pattern |
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| the characteristics of an uncle |
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| wishing evil or harm to others |
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| bribe, something to give to pacify or quiet |
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| speech or writing designed to mislead, foolish |
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| equipment used for a certain activity, personal belongings |
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| pretensious, swaggering display of courage |
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| generousity (munificent very genourous) |
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| to explain or provide clarification |
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| a person free of conventional rules and practices |
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| in attempt to impress others |
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| fragmants or scrap; a trace |
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| sensual; pertaining to the bodys passions and appetites |
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| having a joint; built in a way that can allow motion |
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| being beyond what is seen; intentionally kept concealed |
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| being present or in attendence; accompanying, helping |
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| full of animation and energy, ill tempered or pugnatious |
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| a ghostly double or conterpart of a living person |
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| attack a person or persons work with snide critisism |
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| watchful and descreet, cautious |
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| used for belonging to or concerned with mere style or effect (not meant to be answered) |
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| wise judicious or prudent |
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| abrupt in manner, blunt, rough |
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| expressing sorry or melancholy, mournful |
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1. a speech or writing in praise of a aperson or thing, esp a set orientation in honor of a deceased person
2. High praise or commendation |
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| 1. a new word, meaning, usage, or phrase. |
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1. a roundabout or indirect way of speaking; the use of more words than necessary to express an idea.
2. a roundabout expression. |
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| 1. characteristic of or appropriate to ordinary or familiar conversation rather than formal speech or writing; informal. |
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| 1. talking or tending to talk much or freely; talkative; chattering; babbling; garrulous: a loquacious dinner guest. |
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| having complete or unlimited knowledge, awareness, or understanding; perceiving all things. |
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| having knowledge of things before they exist or happen; having foreknowledge or foresight. |
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1. moving, acting, working, proceeding, etc., with ease, sometimes with superficiality: facile fingers; a facile mind.
2. easily done, performed, used, etc.: a facile victory; a facile method. |
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| of or pertaining to the sense of smell: olfactory organs |
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| 1. well-advanced or competent in any art, science, or subject; skilled: a proficient swimmer |
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1. appropriate or suitable for a purpose; proper under the circumstances; : It is expedient that you go.
2. in a depreciative sense, ‘useful’ or ‘politic’ as opposed to ‘just’ or ‘right’ (OED); serving to promote one's interest: was merciful only when mercy was expedient (AH). |
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| 1. lacking in vitality, imagination, distinction, etc.; commonplace; ordinary or dull: a pedestrian commencement speech. |
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| 1. a great abundance: In spring time there was a profusion of flowers. |
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1. unduly demonstrative; lacking reserve; gushy: effusive greetings; an effusive person.
2. pouring out; overflowing: effusive praise |
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| 1. to overspread with or as with a liquid, color, etc.: “the sky above the roof is suffused with deep colors.” |
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1. lacking definite form; having no specific shape; formless: the amorphous clouds.
2. of no particular kind or character; indeterminate; having no pattern or structure; unorganized: an amorphous style; an amorphous personality. |
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1. Having important consequences; significant: “The year's only really consequential legislation was the reform of Social Security” (New York Times).
2. Important; influential: a consequential figure in the academic community. |
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| characterized by or showing servile deference; fawning: an obsequious bow. |
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| ascribing human form or attributes to a being or thing not human |
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| ascribing human form or attributes to a being or thing not human |
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| large or bulky of body; portly; stout; fat. |
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1. to put or introduce into a body or mass as an integral part or parts: to incorporate revisions into a text.
2. to take in or include as a part or parts, as the body or a mass does: His book incorporates his earlier essay. |
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1. of the nature of the physical body; bodily.
2. material; tangible: corporeal property. |
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| 1. a subterranean chamber or vault, esp. one beneath the main floor of a church, used as a burial place, a location for secret meetings, etc. |
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1. mysterious in meaning; puzzling; ambiguous: a cryptic message.
2. abrupt; terse; short: a cryptic note.
3. secret; occult: a cryptic writing. |
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1. of doubtful authorship or authenticity.
2. false; spurious: He told an apocryphal story about the sword, but the truth was later revealed. |
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| Of or pertaining to a teacher, or the art of teaching |
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Extremely Distressing, agonizing
a harrowing experience |
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Extremely objectionable, vile
The putrid odor |
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| of no importance of relevance, Irrelevant |
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| a debauched man, or someone with no morals |
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| an uneasy feeling about the propriety or rightness of a course of action |
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| a deis, pulpit or other elevated platform for public speaking |
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| devoid of scruples or oblivious or contemptuous of what is right or honorable |
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| interchangeable or complementary |
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| to act on the emotions of; touch or move |
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| tall elegant chest of drawers |
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| the deriving of pleasure from cruelty |
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| artificially high or above the normal voice range |
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| a person who performs behavior that is intended to make people notice them |
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| grossly irreverant towards what is sacred |
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| noisy and lacking in restraint/discipline |
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| a place in which the bodies of persons found dead are kept |
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| someone with an opposition to war or violence |
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| someone whose identity is disguised or concealed |
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| conforming to the direction of the conscience |
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