How to Describe People
More Words to Describe People
Word Origins
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Use this word to describe a person with a powerful voice that carries.
What is vociferous?
100
A person who believes they are sick all the time, exaggerating the severity of their illnesses.
What is a hypochondriac?
100
Maury has kept this industry in business by having troubled women determine the father of their children through testing.
What is the paternity business?
100
Taciturn?
What is not willing to talk?
100
A _________ has a one-track mind.
What is a monomaniac?
200
A person who walks in their sleep.
What is a somnambulist?
200
A person who uses few words to get their point across.
What is a laconic person?
200
This word was coined in 1944 because of Hitler's desires for Germany and the results of his dersires.
What is genocide?
200
Garrulous
What is talking without meaning/rambling?
200
An ________ does not believe in God.
What is an atheist?
300
A person who obsesses over one thing.
What is a monomaniac?
300
A person who lacks any creativity or original thought.
What is a banal person?
300
This root comes from Juno Moneta, the Roman goddess who guarded the temples of finance.
What is -mony?
300
A martinet
What is a dictator?
300
Even though he's perfectly well, this _________ always complains of his illness.
What is a hypochondriac?
400
Since Mary was this type of person, she openly rejected the tradition of exchanging presents on Christmas. In fact, she was against the idea of celebrating Christmas at all.
What is an iconoclast?
400
Richy doesn't take his endeavors in photography very seriously, even though he has some promise in the field. His friends call him this, because they don't understand how he gets people to actually pay for what he doesn't take much interest in.
What is a dilettante?
400
This man hated Napoleon Bonaparte so much that he mad a fool out of himself. He became the laughingstock of France, and from that day forward, we have coined a word after him: chauvinism.
Who is Nicholas Chauvin?
400
A matriarch
What is a motherly ruler of a house?
400
Ericka inherited a significant _________ from her father, so she is set for life.
What is patrimony?
500
My daughter's new kindergarten teacher is not the gentle, kind person I expected to be working with small children. Instead of a calming, peaceful present, this woman stomps, shouts, and scares. I'm thinking of transferring my child to another classroom- I don't want her to have this kind of person for a teacher.
What is a virago?
500
I could have passed my college statistics class if the teacher hadn't inspired long snoozes in class. He was so _______, I almost dropped his class!
What is soporific?
500
This word comes from a Greek phrase, "fig-shower." This person would snitch to the officers in charge when someone was stealing figs from the sacred groves, or when people were dodging the taxes on their figs.
What is a sycophant?
500
A harridan.
What is a manly woman?
500
Trey is named after his father, who was named after his father. Both their names are __________.
What is patronymic?
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