Hard Words for Tina
Terms
undefined, object
copy deck
- bane
- cause of ruin
- censure
- severe criticism
- cipher
- nothing, zero, null
- harangue
- lenthy bombastic speach
- inexorable
- relentless
- fuliginous
- smoky
- pariah
- outcast
- phlegmatic
- apathetic
- proselytize
- convert
- contumacious
- recalcitrant, rebellious
- obeisance
- reverant bowing
- recondite
- abstruse
- anathema
- thing cursed and loathed
- asperity
- roughness of tone or manner
- caluminate
- besmirch
- bilious
- peevish
- callow
- young, immature
- sententious
- pithy, terse
- celerity
- speed
- cozen
- defraud
- cynosure
- center of attention
- exculpate
- free from blame
- forensic
- preservation of evidence, suitable for a court of law
- impunity
- privelege
- impecunious
- lacking money
- multifarious
- diversified, many parts
- obstreperous
- unruly
- peregrination
- journey
- querulous
- whining
- rhapsodic
- exalted enthusiasm
- sanguine
- cheerful
- temerity
- brave
- torpor
- lethargy
- turgid
- swollen, pomopous
- virulent
- deadly
- acolyte
- assistant
- approbation
- approval
- bastion
- stronghold
- boorish
- rude
- bumptious
- overly assertive
- cant
- jargon
- chimerical
- fanciful
- deign
- deem worthy
- diffidence
- shy, lacking faith in oneself
- dint
- force
- Elysian
- heavenly
- emendation
- correction
- fulminate
- erupt
- ignominious
- disgraceful
- ingenuous
- naive
- mordant
- biting, stinging
- nugatory
- worthless
- pastiche
- assorted variety
- penurious
- miserly
- perfidy
- breech of trust
- perspicacious
- insightful
- prodigal
- wasteful
- progenitor
- forefather
- pusillanimous
- cowardly
- risible
- comical
- solicitious
- concerned
- stolid
- indifferent
- stultify
- render foolish or ineffective
- trenchant
- keen, incisive
- turbid
- muddy
- turpitude
- wickedness
- venal
- corruptible
- vituperate
- to scold harshly
- winnow
- to scatter
- bijou
- ornament
- nepenthe
- medicine
- opprobrium
- dishonor
- phalanx
- union
- quotidian
- trite
- succedaneum
- replacement
- imprimatur
- license to publish
- insouciant
- unconcerned
- yen
- yearning or desire
- adventitious
- accidental
- annular
- round
- condign
- appropriate
- dissemble
- hide
- friable
- fragile
- importunate
- demanding
- obloquy
- condemnation
- obviate
- avoid
- preciocity
- refinement
- proean
- flexible
- asservate
- declare
- consequential
- arrogant
- disabuse
- correct
- disport
- amuse
- factotum
- handyman
- officious
- pushy
- pullulate
- reproduce
- rakish
- stylish
- redress
- fix
- refactory
- unmanageable
- extripate
- root up
- funereal
- sorrowful
- maculated
- stained
- militate
- advocate
- prepossessing
- enticing
- quiescent
- serene
- stricture
- constraint
- tendentious
- biased
- politic
- shrewd
- abrogate
- repeal
- abjection
- hopelessness
- effable
- expressible
- amerce
- punish
- anaphora
- in speech, repeating the first words of the sentence
- annunciate
- to proclaim
- averse
- unwilling
- apiary
- a place for bees
- apostate
- one who defects from ones faith
- reticulate
- veined
- augur
- predict
- autonomic
- movement produced by internal stimulus
- complaisant
- willing to please
- relegate
- transfer to an inferior position
- demur
- delay
- depredate
- plunder
- devise
- gift of property
- dissolute
- lewd
- distrait
- absent-minded
- efflorescent
- bursting into bloom
- immanent
- indwelling
- escheat
- transfer of title by default to the state
- inveigh
- denounce
- macerate
- soften by soaking, waste away
- evince
- show clearly
- exigent
- urgent
- exiguous
- scanty
- expurgate
- to clean
- feculent
- relating to feces (excrement)
- felicitous
- suitable
- filaceous
- composed of threads
- glutious
- sticky
- horde
- crowd
- hypocritical
- insincere
- igneous
- caused by fire
- impugn
- to challenge
- inculcate
- teach
- indict
- charge with an offense
- indite
- express in words
- indurated
- unyielding
- invidious
- ill will
- insular
- narrowly exclusive
- inveigle
- lure through enticements
- labile
- unstable
- masticate
- chew
- mettlesome
- courageous
- nettlesome
- prickly
- mendacity
- fraud
- mendicancy
- begging
- meretricious
- gaudy
- miscreant
- evil person
- recreant
- one who begs for mercy
- multiparous
- producing more than one offspring at birth