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preposterous 🌟
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absurd, ridiculous
his ability to contrive an utterly preposterous situation is impressive
uncanny 🌟
sākt mācīties
strange or mysterious, especially in an unsettling way
an uncanny feeling that she was being watched
ludicrous 🌟
sākt mācīties
absurd, ridiculous
callow 🌟
sākt mācīties
inexperienced and immature, green
earnest and callow undergraduates; a green recruit fresh from college
earnest 🌟
sākt mācīties
showing sincere and intense conviction; serious, solemn
puerile 🌟
sākt mācīties
immature
a puerile argument
brusque
sākt mācīties
curt, terse
boor
sākt mācīties
rough and bad-mannered person
she came across as a boor
diffidence
sākt mācīties
modesty or shyness resulting from a lack of self-confidence
with habitual diffidence, she handed a new manuscript to me
retiring
sākt mācīties
shy and fond of being on one’s own
given Susan’s retiring personality, no one expected her to take up public speaking
timorous
sākt mācīties
showing or suffering from nervousness or lack of confidence
she started delivering her speech with a timorous tone; timorous timon
endemic 🌟
sākt mācīties
confined to a particular place or people
Food shortages are endemic in certain parts of the world
epidemic 🌟
sākt mācīties
widespread, outbreak
a flu epidemic
pandemic 🌟
sākt mācīties
prevalent over a whole country or the world, widespread
this could be the beginning of an influenza pandemic
underling
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subordinate
he dishes out orders to his underling
affected
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pretentious and designed to impress
the gesture appeared both affected and stagy; I had been quite scared by the dog but affected carelessness
mannered
sākt mācīties
affected, pretentious, marked by idiosyncratic or exaggerated mannerisms
his prose style is too mannered and self-conscious
posture
sākt mācīties
to act in a pretended manner
a masking of fear with macho posturing
cognizant 🌟
X Oblivious
sākt mācīties
having knowledge or awareness
statesmen must be cognizant of the political boundaries within which they work
prototype
sākt mācīties
archetype; an original or initial model, first example
Mercedes is prototyping a car sunroof which changes from clear to tinted
archetype
sākt mācīties
a very typical example of a person or a thing
she is the archetype of an American Movie Star
apotheosis
X Nadir
sākt mācīties
the highest point in the development of something; a culmination or climax
his appearance as Hamlet was the apotheosis of his career
paradigm
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a typical example
society’s paradigm of the ideal woman
paragon
sākt mācīties
exemplar, epitome, ideal, paradigm, embodiment
your cook is a paragon
ferret 🌟
sākt mācīties
an assiduous search for something
I ferreted around my room to find my beauty blender
espy
sākt mācīties
catch sight of
I espied her around the corner of the building
gratuitous ✨
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done without good reason; uncalled for
the film was criticized for its gratuitous voilence
obviate ✨
sākt mācīties
remove (a need or difficulty), preclude
the presence of roller blinds obviated the need for curtains
preclude ✨
sākt mācīties
prevent from happening; make impossible
The secret nature of Alia’s work precluded official recognition
ruse
sākt mācīties
trick, an action intended to deceive someone
Annalise tried to think of a ruse to get Nate out of prision
ploy
sākt mācīties
a cunning plan or action designed to turn a situation to one’s advantage
the president had dismissed the referendum as a ploy to buy time
connive
sākt mācīties
secretly allow something immoral, illegal, or harmful to occur,
she connived with a senior official to rig the election results
beguile
sākt mācīties
charm or enchant, often in a deceptive way; allure
he had beguiled the voters with his good looks
dour
sākt mācīties
stern or gloomy in manner or appearance
the city, drab and dour by the day, transforms at the night
morose
sākt mācīties
sullen and ill-tempered
morose and silent when she got back home
sullen
sākt mācīties
bad-tempered and sulky
a sullen pout
peevish
sākt mācīties
having or showing an irritable disposition
I’d rather figure out things on my own than ask that peevish librarian for help
saturnine ✨
sākt mācīties
gloomy
a saturnine temperament, Living on Saturn would make me saturnine
asinine ✨
sākt mācīties
extremely stupid or foolish
it is surprising that supposedly intelligent people can make such asinine statements
fatuous
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silly and pointless
a fatuous comment
inane
sākt mācīties
lacking sense or meaning; silly
don’t badger people with inane questions
badger
sākt mācīties
pester
oafish
sākt mācīties
clumsy and unintelligent, stupid
oafish behaviour
debase ✨
sākt mācīties
degrade, devalue
he won’t debase himself by doing manual labour
warp ✨
sākt mācīties
make or become bent or twisted out of shape, typically as a result of heat or damp
moisture had warped the box
exhort ✨
sākt mācīties
strongly urge or encourage
Anku has always exhorted me to persue a carrer in fashion
enjoin
sākt mācīties
instruct or urge someone to do something
the code enjoined people to dress appropriately
wheedle
sākt mācīties
coax, cajole (persuade using flattery)
she wheedled her way on to the guest list
temporal
sākt mācīties
secular- not belonging to any one religion
in temporal countries, the diversity of culture is more important
astute
sākt mācīties
shrewd, acute, showing good judgement
an astute awareness of changing fashionsu
perspicacious ✨
sākt mācīties
having a ready insight into and understanding of things
the brilliant lawyer was known for his perspicacious deductions
prudent
sākt mācīties
wise, judicious, sagacious, sage
no prudent money manager would authorize a loan without first knowing its purpose
savant
sākt mācīties
a learned person, intellectual, scholar, sage
life gave him what he wanted, and he emerged as a business savant
impolitic ✨
sākt mācīties
failing to possess or display prudence, unwise
it was impolitic to not attend that show
entrenched
sākt mācīties
firmly established and difficult or unlikely to change; ingrained
an entrenched resistance to change
congenital ✨
sākt mācīties
inborn, innate
a cogenital liar
vitiate
sākt mācīties
spoil or impair the quality or efficiency of
your bribing habits, vitiates the child
watershed
sākt mācīties
hallmark, landmark, milestone
these works were a watershed in the history of music
desultory ✨
sākt mācīties
lacking a plan, purpose or plan
the students were confused by the teacher’s desultory lecture which seemed to have no real focus
expurgate ✨
sākt mācīties
remove matter thought to be objectionable or unsuitable from a text or account
the beeped out words on the television have been expurgated
extort
sākt mācīties
obtain something by force threat or other unfair means
he attempted to extort money from the company
dissuade
sākt mācīties
persuade someone not to take a particular course or action
his friends tried to dissuade him from doing drugs
goad
sākt mācīties
provoke or annoy to stimulate an action or reaction
when goaded beyond endurance, she hit him
entreaty ✨
sākt mācīties
an earnest or humble request
the king turned a deaf ear to his entreaties
implore
sākt mācīties
entreaty, beseech
importune ✨
sākt mācīties
harass persistently for or to do something
after i importuned for several days, my dad let me go on the trip
supplicate
sākt mācīties
entreat, beseech, implore
untenable ✨
sākt mācīties
indefensible
This argument is clearly untenable
punctilious ✨
sākt mācīties
meticulous, conscientious, showing great attention to detail or correct behaviour
He was punctilious in providing every amenity for his guests
fastidious
sākt mācīties
scrupulous, punctilious, painstaking, very attentive to and concerned about accuracy and detail
I dress with fastidious care
purist
sākt mācīties
a person who insists on absolute adherence to traditional rules or structures, specially in language or style
scrupulous ✨
sākt mācīties
careful, thorough, and extremely attentive to details
the research has been carried out with scrupulous attention to details
sybarite
X PURITAN
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hedonistic
forthright
sākt mācīties
candor, frank, direct
replete
sākt mācīties
filled or well-supplied with something
sensational popular fiction, replete with adultery and sudden death
stickler
sākt mācīties
a person who insists on a certain quality or type of behaviour
he’s a stickler for accuracy
nitpicking
sākt mācīties
fussy or pedantic fault-finding
nitpicking over tiny details
tacit
sākt mācīties
understood or implied without being stated
your silence may be taken to mean tacit agreement
insinuate ✨
sākt mācīties
imply, hint, suggest
the article insinuated that he was having an affair
innuendo ✨
sākt mācīties
an allusive or oblique remark or hint, typically a suggestive or disparaging one
she’s always making sly innuendoes
allude ✨
sākt mācīties
refer to something indirectly
try not to allude to this matter in his presence
gargantuan
sākt mācīties
colossal, behemoth
behemoth
sākt mācīties
huge person or thing
it’s hard for BING to compete with the behemoth search engines like Google
monolithic
sākt mācīties
humongous, monumental
prodigious
sākt mācīties
titanic, gargantuan, colossal, voluminous
he impressed everyone with his prodigious memory
paltry
sākt mācīties
marginal, minute, token, negligible
his account offers a paltry 1% return on his investments
trifle/trifling
sākt mācīties
unimportant or trivial
expatiate 💥
sākt mācīties
speak or write in detail about
she expatiated on working-class novelists
pontificate
sākt mācīties
express one’s opinions in a pompous and dogmatic way
she was pontificating about art and history
discourse
sākt mācīties
a long debate, discussion or lecture; dissertation
a discourse on issues of gender and sexuality
rhetoric
sākt mācīties
exaggerated or pompous speech intended to impress
his offers of compromise were mere rhetoric
misnomer ✨
sākt mācīties
a wrong or inaccurate name or designation
villa was a misnomer- the place was no more than a suburban flat
bungle
sākt mācīties
carry out clumsily or incompetently; botch, tactless
she had bungled every attempt to help
agnostic ✨
sākt mācīties
one who doesn’t know whether god exists
proselytize ✨
sākt mācīties
convert or attempt to convert someone from one religion, belief or opinion to another
contiguous
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juxtaposed, sharing a common border; touching
the southern ocean is contiguous with the atlantic
abut
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be next to or have a common boundary with; contiguous
gardens abutting the streets
efface
sākt mācīties
obliterate, annihilate, eradicate
she tried her best to efface the memory from her mind
expunge
sākt mācīties
obliterate, annihilate
extripate
sākt mācīties
efface, expunge, obliterate, annihilate
the wolves were extripated from New England more than a century ago
indelible
sākt mācīties
ineradicable, ineffaceable, unexpungeable, permanent
the story made an indelible impression on me
raze
sākt mācīties
extripate, expunge, efface, obliterate, annihilate
villages were razed to the ground
infinitesimal
sākt mācīties
minute, miniscule
an infinitesimal pause
diminutive
sākt mācīties
infinitesimal, minuscule
bastion
sākt mācīties
a thing or person upholding or defending an attitude, principle etc
Hollywood has long been considered a bastion of liberal activism
fortify
sākt mācīties
strengthen, buttress, bolster
they fortified the area against attack

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