Easy Definitions
Showing strong emotions, excitement, or praise.
Effusive
A gentle or slight breeze.
Zephyr
After the rain, the smell of ________ filled the air.
Petrichor
Awkward, clumsy, socially uncomfortable.
Gauche
The ability to achieve a desired result or produce an effect.
Efficacy
A strong expression of excitement, happiness, or emotion, or an artistic work.
Rhapsody
A strong desire for money or wealth.
Cupidity
The teacher expected _____, meaning careful and thorough work.
Rigor
Foolish, silly, ridiculous.
Fatuous
A strong desire for money or material possessions.
Cupidity
Expressing sadness, especially about something lost or in the past.
Elegiac
A difficult or confusing problem.
Conundrum
The two friends has _________ opinions, meaning they were very different.
Disparate
Harmful, damaging, destructive.
Deleterious
Having an excessively narrow or limited perspective.
Myopic
A comment meant to be funny rather than taken seriously.
Facetious
The origin and history of a word.
Etymology
The professor was very ________, always correcting the smallest mistakes.
Pedantic
Arrogant, snobbish.
Supercilious
Relating to the belief that only one's own mind can be known to exist.
Solipsistic.
Showing great knowledge or education.
Erudite
A person who is bad-tempered and often complains.
Curmudgeon
The speaker gave a ________ praising the retiring principal.
Panegyric.
Judgmental, pretentious.
Sanctimonious
A German word describing a face that seems to invite a slap. "A punchable face".
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