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Obsequious-Parody
Question | Answer |
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obsequious | exhibiting a fawning attentiveness; kowtowing |
obstinate | stubborn; hardheaded; uncompromising |
obstreperous | noisy; defiant; unruly |
obtuse | lacking sharpness of intellect; not clear or precise in thought or expression; thickheaded, simple-minded, dull-witted |
obviate | to anticipate and make unnecessary; intervene, preclude, avert |
occlude | to obstruct or block; clog, congest |
odious | evoking intense aversion or dislike; repugnant |
officious | meddlesome; pushy in one's services; intrusive |
ombudsman | a person who investigates citizens' complaints; mediator |
onerous | troubling; burdensome; arduous, grueling, laborious |
opaque | impenetrable by light; not reflecting light; turbid |
opprobrium | disgrace; contempt; scorn |
ossified | tending to become more rigid; conventional; turned into bone |
ostensible | seeming; appearing as such; outward |
ostentatious | characterized by or given to pretentiousness; showy |
overweening | presumptuously arrogant; overbearing; excessive |
palliate | to make something appear less serious; to make less severe; mitigate |
panegyric | formal praise; encomium |
pariah | an outcast; a rejected and despised person; leper |
parody | a humorous imitation intended for ridicule or comic effect, esp. in literature and art; satire, lampoon, caricature |