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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Adept | very skilled or proficient at something: "he is adept at cutting through red tape" · "an adept negotiator" " he was adept at climbing the pyramid" |
| Imbued | inspire or permeate with (a feeling or quality): "Egypt imbued the view with a heavy sense of mystery" similar: permeate saturate diffuse suffuse |
| Astute | having or showing an ability to accurately assess situations or people and turn this to one's advantage: "He was an astute linguist" similar: shrewd sharp |
| Majordomo | the chief steward/worker of a large household: "I twice left a message, once with Pippa and once with her major-domo, asking him to ring back" |
| Procurement | the action of obtaining or procuring something: "financial assistance for the procurement of legal advice" · "the company's procurements from foreign firms" "the procurement of firewood" similar: obtaining acquiring Collecting gaining |
| Innocuous | innocuous (adjective) not harmful or offensive: "it was an innocuous question" similar: harmless safe nontoxic innocent |
| Flash of intuition | |
| Vain | having or showing an excessively high opinion of one's appearance, abilities, or worth: "their flattery made him vain" similar: conceited narcissistic self-loving self-admiring self-regarding self-absorbed self-obsessed |
| Beyond doubt | No doubt |
| On the airplane, coming over, there had been a girl, but he had not approached her. They had exchanged glances, and he had looked away. Timid. Afraid. | |
| Zenith | time at which something is most powerful or successful: "under Justinian, the Byzantine Empire reached its zenith of influence" "being Captain was the Zenith of my life" similar: high point height top acme peak pinnacle apex |
| Monotheist | doctrine or belief that there is only one God |
| Vicariously | experienced in the imagination through the feelings or actions of another person: "As I read the manuscripts, I was vicariously living the life of the people from that time" similar: indirect secondhand secondary derivative derived surrogate |
| Eccentricity | quality of being eccentric: "We need a benefactor, a person of eccentricity and wealth" an eccentric act, habit, or thing: "her eccentricities were amusing rather than irritating" similar: unconventionality unorthodoxy singularity oddness |
| Unscrupulous | having or showing no moral principles; not honest or fair: "unscrupulous landlords might be tempted to harass existing tenants" unprincipled unethical immoral amoral conscienceless untrustworthy shameless reprobate exploitative corrupt |
| Ensheathed | enclose (an organism, tissue, structure, etc.) in or as in a sheath: "She was barefooted, with long legs and a haed figure ensheathed in a shimmering white dress" |
| Vigorous | vigorous (adjective) strong, healthy, and full of energy: " His manner was vigorous and masculine" similar: robust healthy strong sturdy fine fit hardy tough athletic |
| Countenance | |
| Solemnity | state/quality of being serious and dignified: "The kings ashes were laid to rest with great overblown solemnity" dignity/stateliness/courtliness |
| solemnities | a formal, dignified rite/ceremony: "the ritual was observed in all its solemnities" formalities/proceedings |
| Belied | fail to give a true notion or impression of (something); disguise or contradict: "his lively, alert manner belied his years" similar: contradict give the lie to disprove debunk discredit explode controvert |
| Tickled pink | Very happy or amused "My father would've been tickled pink if he saw me now" |
| Dilapidated | adjective dilapidated (adjective) (of a building or object) in a state of disrepair or ruin as a result of age or neglect: "old, dilapidated buildings" · similar: run down tumbledown ramshackle broken-down shabby battered rickety shaky unsound |
| Forlornly | pitifully sad and abandoned or lonely: "forlorn figures at bus stops" similar: unhappy sad (of an aim or endeavor) unlikely to succeed or be fulfilled; hopeless: "a forlorn attempt to escape" similar: hopeless useless |
| Expatriate | person who resides outside their native country. a professional or skilled worker who intends to return to their country of origiin. retirees, artists and other individuals who have chosen to live outside their native country1 |
| Scrupulous honesty | When something overtly honest, upright, or incorruptible |
| Avowed | that has been asserted, admitted, or stated publicly: "an avowed atheist" · "they came to power with the avowed aim of promoting religious toleration" |
| Good way to describe the Disparity in Mumbai and Egypt where people drive lambos through impoverished areas | Dwarfing the people, contrasting their poverty |
| Faintly gaudy | Slightly extravagant, a little showy butnot too much |
| Lily-pure | In most cultures in history, the lily represents purity, chastity and virtue. |
| Prudent | acting with or showing care and thought for the future: "no prudent money manager would authorize a loan without first knowing its purpose" similar: wise judicious sagacious sage shrewd advisable |
| Disconsolately | without consolation or comfort; unhappy: "he'd met the man's disconsolate widow" similar: sad unhappy doleful woebegone dejected downcast downhearted despondent dispirited |
| Incongruously | |
| Fervent kiss | having or displaying a passionate intensity: "he grabbed her hand and delivered a long, fervent kiss" similar: impassioned passionate intense vehement |
| Idiosyncrasies | a mode of behavior or way of thought peculiar to an individual: "one of his little idiosyncrasies was always preferring to be in the car first" "They grew to accept each other's idiosyncrasies," peculiarity quirk eccentricity oddity foible whim |
| Adroit | clever or skillful in using the hands or mind: "he was adroit at tax avoidance" similar: skillful adept dexterous deft agile nimble nimble-fingered handy able capable competent skilled expert masterly |
| Domineering | asserting one's will over another in an arrogant way: "how can I do my job with a domineering boss yelling in my ear?" similar: overbearing authoritarian imperious high-handed high and mighty autocratic |
| Wound tighter than a spring | Filled with nervous frustration |
| Foreboding | "as he worked he began to feel a strange sense of foreboding, something he could not define, but it was an anticipation, as if an extra Sense were telling him something was about to happen" sign token prediction prophecy prognostication forecast |
| Spindly | thin and weak or insubstantial in construction: "spindly chairs" similar: rickety flimsy wobbly shaky fragile frail insubstantial |
| Sauntered | |
| Roughhewn | not sophisticated, polished, or elegant: "a rough-hewn cinematic style" |
| Ferrety | look around in a place or container in search of something: "He had arrived without warn- ing that morning, his ferrety eyes darting around the camp." similar: rummage poke around delve |
| Deliriously | delirious in an acutely disturbed state of mind resulting from illness or intoxication and characterized by restlessness, and incoherence of thought and speech: "Held it so he wouldn't chomp deliriously" /babbling/irrational/hysterical/feverish |
| Dutifully | |
| in a manner motivated by duty rather than desire or enthusiasm: "we all dutifully applauded the support act" · "she listened dutifully to Nate's excited talk" | |
| Pierce felt A sagging sense of discontent fall over him again | Dissatisfied |
| Morbid | an unusual interest in disturbing and unpleasant subjects, especially death and disease: "he was being morbid and needed to change his thinking" "he had a morbid fascination" similar: ghoulish macabre unhealthy gruesome Grisly grotesque ghastly |
| Disquieting | (adjective) inducing feelings of anxiety or worry: "he found Jean's gaze disquieting" similar: appalling horrific dreadful awful frightful terrible scandalous outrageous repulsive repugnant disgusting nauseating disgraceful vile |
| Rubenesque (from armchair expert episode with Cody deliatraty) | characteristic or reminiscent of the paintings of Rubens, especially with reference to his voluptuous female nudes. "a Rubenesque woman reclines on her chaise longue" Slutty |
| Slung (from armchair expert episode with Cody deliatraty) | |
| Officious | assertive of authority in an annoyingly domineering way, especially with regard to petty or trivial matters: "the security people were very officious" similar: peremptory high-handed commanding imperial overbearing overweening domineering |
| Monotonous | dull, tedious, and repetitious; lacking in variety and interest: "the statistics that he quotes with monotonous regularity" similar: tedious boring dull uninteresting unexciting wearisome tiresome repetitive |
| Feigning | pretend to be affected by (a feeling, state, or injury): "she feigned nervousness" "he lay on the bed, feigning sleep" similar: simulate fake sham affect play at pretend bluff pose |
| Awash | similar: inundated flooded level with the surface of water, especially the sea, so that it just washes over: "a rock awash outside the reef entrance" |
| Placid | especially of a place or stretch of water) calm and peaceful, with little movement or activity: "the placid waters of a small lake" similar: quiet calm tranquil still peaceful |
| Preamble | a preliminary or preparatory statement; an introduction: "what she said was by way of a preamble" · "I gave him the bad news without preamble" "in a cloudless sky, the sun rose abruptly, without preamble" similar: introduction opening formalities |
| Bungling | the action or fact of carrying out a task clumsily or incompetently: "he was heavily criticized for his bungling of the case" |
| Ingratiate | bring oneself into favor with someone by flattering or trying to please them: "He started to think of ways to ingratiate himself with his boss and keep his job" similar: cultivate play up to flatter court dance attendance on find the favor of |
| Amenable | |
| open and responsive to suggestion; easily persuaded or controlled: "parents who have had easy babies and amenable children" similar: compliant acquiescent biddable manageable controllable governable persuadable | |
| Oft | archaic, poetic/literary, or jocular form of often. "The story of tracing antiquities was oft repeated in Egyptian history" |
| Necropolis | cemetery, especially a large one belonging to an ancient city. Similar: cemetery graveyard |
| Chortled | |
| laugh in a breathy, gleeful way; chuckle: "he chortled gleefully at his own pun" similar: chuckle laugh giggle | |
| Foibles | minor weakness or eccentricity in someone's character: "they have to tolerate each other's little foibles" similar: weakness failing shortcoming flaw imperfection blemish |
| Taut | especially of muscles or nerves) tense; not relaxed: "my voice was taut with anger" similar: flexed tensed tightened hard |
| Vagabonds | a person who wanders from place to place without a home or job. similar: itinerant wanderer nomad wayfarer traveler gypsy rover tramp vagrant |
| *you're in a Terrible bind" | You're in a bad spot/predicament |
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