lit words
Terms
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- imperious
- characteristic of one of eminant rank
- reverential
- expressing devotion
- obsequious
- compliant
- leer
- knowingly stare
- glower
- stare angrily
- implore
- to beg for urgently
- curt
- rudely brief
- girth
- circumference
- cognizance
- awareness
- reveler
- one who takes part in celebration
- courtier
- one who seeks favor
- sycophant
- one who attempts to win favor by flattering
- derisive
- causing use of ridiule to show contempt
- appellation
- designation
- supercillious
- proud
- imperative
- expressing a command
- dissolute
- lacking moral restraint
- indifference
- impartiality
- droll
- dry humor
- madrigal
- short poem
- poignant
- moving
- elegy
- poem/song lamenting a deceased person
- eulogize
- praise highly
- deride
- treat/speak of with contempt
- enveterate
- long established
- denigrate
- attach the character of
- fiscal
- relating to finance
- insular
- isolated
- altruistic
- unselfish concern for welfare of others
- apathy
- lack of interest
- epoch
- particular period in history
- enervation
- state of being weakened
- livery
- distinctive dress
- parsimonious
- frugal
- scathing
- critical
- paltry
- lacking in importance
- tithe
- small part
- cavalier
- showing offhand disregard
- sardonic
- sarcastic
- avarice
- desire for wealth
- gentry
- people of a particular class or group
- sumptuous
- splender suggesting great expense
- vacuity
- being empty
- penchant
- liking
- antipathy
- strong feeling of aversion
- abet
- improve
- paean
- expression of joy
- narcissus
- totally vain
- squalor
- wretched condition
- evanescence
- lasting for a short time
- foreboding
- sense of impending evil
- shorn
- clipped off
- metonymy
- word or phrase substituted for another
- hyperbole
- exaggeration used for emphasis
- harbinger
- forerunner
- acrid
- sharp and unpleasant
- endemic
- peculiar to a particular locality
- stagnant
- not flowing
- infernal
- relating to lower world
- plummets
- something that weighs down
- begrimed
- to soil
- sallow
- sickly yellowish hue
- adder
- snake
- capstans
- spool shaped cylinder cable is wound
- interlude
- intervening period or episode
- certitude
- sureness
- apostrophe
- address to an absent person
- onomatopoeia
- words that sound like spelling
- ominous
- threatening
- tenure
- possession
- saffron
- orange-yellow color
- cormorant
- greedy person
- reverie
- daydream
- dissipated
- vanish by disspersion
- clamor
- loud outcry
- reminiscence
- recollecting past experiences
- deacon
- to alter boundaries slyly
- fiasco
- failure
- blowhard
- bragger
- moot
- subject to debate
- paradox
- contradictory statement
- disparity
- distinct in quality
- sullen
- gloomy
- insidious
- awaiting chance to entrap
- petulant
- rude in speech or behavior
- innate
- in an individual from birth
- coddle
- spoil
- synecdoche
- part for the whole
- audacious
- daring
- revulsion
- drawing away
- surreptitious
- acquired by stealth
- clandestine
- conducted with secrecy
- deprecatory
- seeking to avert disapproval
- destitute
- lacking something needed
- tart
- sharp taste
- plight
- give in pledge