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Term | Definition |
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Audacious | showing willingness to take bold risks |
Cajole | persuade by coaxing & flattery |
Conciliatory | intend or likely to pacify |
Derisive | expressing contempt or ridicule |
Disparage | regard or represent as being of little worth |
Edification | instruction or improvement of a person morally or intellectually |
Egregious | outstandingly bad, shocking |
Elucidate | make something clear; explain |
Erudite | having or showing great knowledge |
Exacerbate | make a problem, bad situation, or negative feeling worse |
Fatuous | silly and pointless |
Gauche | lacking ease or grace, unsophisticated & socially awkward |
Incredulous | (of a person) unwilling or unable to believe something |
Laudable | (of and action, idea, or goal) deserving praise |
Magnanimous | very generous or forgiving, especially toward a rival |
Mollify | appease the anger or anxiety of (someone) |
Obdurate | stubbornly refusing to change one's opinion or course of action |
Pensive | engaged in, involving, or reflecting deep, serious thought |
Poignant | evoking a keen sense of sadness or regret |
Prodigious | remarkably or impressively great in extent, size, or degree |
Prosaic | having the style or diction of prose; lacking poetic beauty |
Superfluous | unnecessary, especially through being more than enough |
Subjugate | bring under domination or control, especially by conquest |
Tenuous | very weak or slight |
Vehement | showing strong feeling; forceful, passionate or intense |