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Stack #38291
wpme-9
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| OPULENCE(OPULENTUS = wealthy) | stronger word than affluent |
| VICARIOUS | second hand feeling |
| EPHEMERA(GREEK) | a short living creature |
| EPHEMERAL | somthing that remains for a short time |
| EVANESCENT(E- = out +VANESCO = TO vanish) | synonym of ephemeral; fleeting; vanishing |
| PUTRESCENT | begining to rot |
| EUPHENISM(EU = good + PHEME = voice + ISM) | something said in good voice; a word or expression that has been substituted for another that is likely to offend |
| EUPHONY | good sound |
| EULOGY | good speech |
| EPILOGUE | words upon the other words, or ' after-words' |
| PROLOGUE | wods before the main part |
| EUPHORIA | good feeling, a sense of mental buoyancy and physical well being |
| EUTHANASIA( EU + THANATOS = DEATH) | good death |
| BADINAGE | half-teasing; non malicious; frivolous banter; intended to amuse rather than hurt |
| PERSIFLAGE | synonym of badinage |
| CLICHE | words that banal, unimaginative people use |
| BROMIDE | trite, dull remark |
| PLATITUDE(PLATYS = broad/float + -TUDE) | dull, trite hackneyed unimaginative pattern of words |
| ANDONYNE | medically a drug that allays pain without curing; actually a statement that allays fear or anxieties |
| BOVINE(BOVIS = ox/cow + INE= like) | placid like a co; stolid; patient; unexcitable |
| PHLEGMATIC | mild contempt |
| LEONINE | (LEO)like a lion |
| CANINE | (CANIS)like a dog |
| FENINE | (FELIS)like a cat |
| PORCINE | (PORCUS) like a pig |
| VULPINE | (VULPUS)like a FOX |
| URSINE | (URSUS)like a BEAR |
| LUPINE | (LUPUS)like a WOLF |
| EQUINE | (EQUUS)like a HORSE |
| PISCINE | (PISCIS) like a FISH |
| NOSTALGIA(NOSTOS = a return + ALGOS) | emotional pain or longing |
| CACOPSIS | eye-offending |
| SAXOHONE | musical instrument invented by Adolphe Sax |
| XYLOPHONE(xylon = wood) | sounds thru wood; a musical instrument |
| PHONETICS | science of sounds of language |
| PHONICS | the science of sound |
| CARNIVOROUS( CARNIS = flesh + VORO = to devour) | whose main diet is meat |
| VORACIOUS | devouring; greedy or gluttonous |
| OMNIPOTENT(OMNI = ALL + POTENS = powerful) | all-pwerful |
| UBIQUITOUS(UBIQUE = everywhere) | omnipresent |
| OMNIBUS | 'for all, including all' |
| CARNELIAN(CARNIS) | a reddish gemstone, the colour of red flesh |
| CARNIVAL(CARNIS + VALE = farewell) | exurberant or riotous merrymaking or festivities |
| CARNAL | sensual, lecherous, lascivious, lubricious, etc. |
| CARNAGE | great destruction of life |
| REINCARNATION | re birth or re appearance |
| INCARNATE | in the flesh; embody; give bodily form to; make real; |
| CLANDESTINE(CLAM = secretly) | secrecy or concealment in working out of dangerous or illegal plan |
| SURREPTITIOUS | stealthy; sneaky; furtive; generally because of fear of detection |
| ENERVATE( E- + NERVUS = nerve) | ripped out nerves; complete devitalization( physical, emotional and mental) |
| CASTIGATE | verbal punishment |
| ABNEGATE(AB- = away + NEGO = to deny) | self denial |
| NEGATE | deny the truth or existence of |
| DECAPITATE(CAPUT/CAPTIS = head) | to chop off someone's head |
| CAPITULUM | little head; the heading or title of a chapter |
| RECAPITULATE | go thru chapter headings again |
| CAPITULATE | arrrange in headings; stop resisting and give up |
| VEGETATE( VEGETO = to live and grow) | to do no more than stay alive |
| SIMULATION | copying the real thing |
| DISSIMULATE | hide the feelings by making a pretence of opp. feelings |
| DISSEMBLE | dissimulate |
| INTIMATE( INTIMUS = innermost) | slight hint! no more ! |
| ALLEVIATE(LEVIS = light + AD = to) | to make light |
| ELEVATE( E- =OUT + LEVIS) | raise out; raise up |
| LEVITATION | rising thru no visible means |
| LEVITY | lightness in the sense of frivolity |
| COMMISERATE(COM- + MISER) | wretched together |
| VACILLATE( VACILLO = swing back and forth) | swing back & forth in decision |
| AMBIVALENCE | watching ur mother in law drive over a cliff in ur new car |
| OBSEQUIOUS( SEQUOR = to follow) | full of following after |
| OBSEQUIES | nourners following after the corpse |
| SUBSEQUENT | one that follows another |
| SEQUEL | literary work; continuing the same subject |
| QUERULOUS( QUERROR = to complain) | full of complaints |
| SUPERCILIOUS(SUPER = above + CILIUM = eyelid) | contemptuous,sneering, overbearingly concieted people |
| OBSTREPEROUS( STREPO = to make a noise) | who is unmanageable - and in a noisy troublesome manner |
| IMPECUNIOUS( PECUS = cattle) | habitually without funds |
| PECUNIARY | pertaining to money |
| CHIVALROUS(CHEVAL = horse) | modern man with knightly attitude to women |
| CAVALCADE(CABALLAS = inferior horse) | a procession of person on horseback |
| CAVALIER | a mounted soldier |
| CAVALRY | 'horsed' part of an army |
| INNOCUOUS( NOCEO = to injure) | someone who need cause you no fear |
| INNOCENT | not guilty of crime or injury |
| NOXIOUS | harmful; poisonous; unwholesome |
| BIBULOUS(BIBO = to drink) | who has an overfondness for drinks |
| IMBIBE | to drink in; soak up; absorb |
| BIB | upper part of an aparon; aparon like napkin tied around a child's neck |
| CADAVEROUS(CADO = to fall) | extreme opp of picture of glowing health |
| CADAVER | a corpse |
| DECADENT | deterirating, becoming corrupt or demoralized |
| DOLOROUS(DOLEO = to suffer or grieve) | wh seems to be suffering or grieving |
| DOLOUR | grief |
| DOLEFUL | exaggerated dismalness, sadness or dreariness |
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