Word | Type | Meaning |
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Assiduous | Adjective | Showing immense care and perseverance |
Balk | Verb | To be hesitant in accepting an idea/opinion |
Broach | Verb | Raise a subject/topic for discussion |
Causality | Noun | The relationship between cause and effect |
Drawl | Verb | Speak in a slow and long-drawn manner |
Ennui | Noun | A feeling of dissatisfaction due to lack of activity |
Exultant | Adjective | Extremely happy |
Ignominy | Noun | Public shame/disgrace |
Kafkaesque | Adjective | Pertaining to what’s nightmarish and oppressive |
Languid | Adjective | Disinterest in physical exertion and activity |
Moribund | Adjective | Near death |
Ossify | Verb | Make rigid / turn into bone |
Pellucid | Adjective | Translucently clear / Easily understood |
Privy | Adjective | Sharing in the knowledge of |
Promethean | Adjective | Highly distinguished and important in a field |
Remonstrate | Verb | Make a forceful protest |
Reprovingly | Adjective | Expressive of strong disapproval |
Skive | Verb | Leave work early in avoidance |
Stymie | Verb | Hinder |
Superfluous | Adjective | Unnecessary |
Tripartite | Adjective | Involving three parts |
Upend | Verb | Turn something over upside-down |
Weather | Verb | Withstand duress |
Immanent | Adjective | Existing within |
Moonstruck | Adjective | Unable to think or act normally (when in love) |
Aphorism | Noun | A terse and pithy statement that conveys a general truth |
Pithy | Adjective | That which has a lot of ‘pith’, or is highly meaningful and terse |
Seedy | Adjective | Disreputable and corrupt / Shabby |
Virulently | Adjective | Bitterly hostile and reproving |