libido n. emotional or psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges and that is usually goal-directed; sexual drive
What is libido?
100
Apt to mislead; deceptive or delusive quality; false or mistaken idea, illogical conclusion
What is fallacious?
100
to compel by force or intimidation
What is to coerce?
100
resembling a meteor in speed or in sudden and temporary brilliance
What is meteoric?
100
tears that are not real
What are crocodile tears?
200
a feeling or condition of hostility; hatred; ill will; animosity
What is enmity?
200
of, having, or caused by disease; resulting from a diseased state of mind; focused on gruesome or gloomy matters
What is morbid?
200
to draw a line around; encircle; to enclose within bounds
What is to circumscribe?
200
sad, sorrowful, melancholy, dismal
What is doleful?
200
for rhetorical compression, the omission from a sentence of one or more words that can be "understood" from context;
What is ellipsis?
300
a feeling of hesitancy, doubt, or uneasiness arising from difficulty in deciding what is right, proper, expedient; qualm
What are scruples?
300
characterized by a roundabout, indirect way of writing or speaking
What is elliptical?
300
to understand or explain the meaning or intention of; interpret
What is to construe?
300
conducive to good health; wholesome
What is salubrious?
300
welfare payment ("on the ________")
What is dole?
400
the state of being enslaved, held under strong influence, captivated, enchanted, fascinated
What is thralldom?
400
carefully attentive to all circumstances that may relate to an action or judgment or conduct; cautious, careful
What is circumspect?
400
to crouch or huddle up, as from fear or cold
What is to cower?
400
joking or trying to be jocular, esp. at an inappropriate time
What is facetious?
400
means of communication, as radio, television, newspapers, and magazines, with wide reach and influence
What is a medium?
500
irrelevance with a connotation of rude disruption, disrespect
What is impertinence?
500
stretched, swollen, or bulging out
What is distended?
500
to make up (a story, excuse), invent, fabricate, make a false show of, pretend, dissimulate;
What is to feign?
500
causing sorrow or pity
What is rueful?
500
a plane curve such that the sums of the distances of each point in its periphery from two fixed points, the foci, are equal;