Jane Ross Words Page 6
Terms
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- to lessen or make milder
- mitigate
- many
- myriad
- evil
- nefarious
- disreputable - famous for bad things
- notorious
- a beginner
- novice
- harmful
- noxious
- overly submissive
- obsequious
- dim, unclear
- obscure
- meddling
- officious
- not transparent
- opaque
- one who takes advantage of a situation without regard to morals
- opportunist
- showy
- ostentatious
- provincial, narrow minded
- parochial
- a literary work that gives a humorous imitation, a caricature
- parody
- stingy, extremely frugal
- parsimonious
- extreme frugality, stinginess
- parsimony
- showing partiality for a particular group or cause
- partisan
- pertaining to money
- pecuniary
- ordinary
- pedestrian
- feeling sorrow for misdeeds
- penitent
- done routinely without feeling
- perfunctory
- on the edge, not essential
- peripheral
- deeply religious
- pious
- concise
- pithy
- sad situation
- plight
- practical
- pragmatic
- wasteful
- prodigal
- enormous
- prodigious
- extremely immoral or wasteful
- profligate
- fruitful, producing a lot
- prolific
- dull, uninspiring
- prosaic
- narrow-minded
- provincial
- precise
- punctilious
- to calm down
- quell
- fault finding, complaining
- querulous
- impractically idealistic
- quixotic