A Bad Pirate
Such Quaint Words
Oklahoma 1930's
A Good King
Insulting!
100
n. a breaking of a law or obligation
What is Infraction
100
n. praise or flattery that is excessive
What is adulation
100
n. extreme poverty; barrenness, insufficiency
What is penury
100
adj. performing acts of kindness or charity; conferring benefits, doing good
What is Beneficent
100
adj. stinging, bitter in temper or tone
What is acrimonious
200
adj. open to attack; capable of being wounded or damaged; unprotected
What is Vulnerable
200
v. to speak or act in a way that allows for more than one interpretation; to be deliberately vague or ambiguous
What is equivocate
200
adj. severe or stern in manner; without adornment or luxury,simple,plain; harsh or sour in flavor
What is Austere
200
adj. grand in an impressive or stately way; marked by pompous affectation or grandeur, absurdly exaggerated
What is Grandiose
200
n. faithlessness, treachery
What is perfidy
300
v. to rob of goods by open force (as in war), plunder; n. the act of looting; booty
What is Pillage
300
v. to prepare by combining ingredients, make up (as a dish); to devise, invent, fabricate
What is Concoct
300
adj. pale, gaunt, resembling a corpse
What is Cadaverous
300
adj. shrewd, crafty, showing practical wisdom
What is astute
300
adj. done for show, striving to make a big impression; claiming merit or position unjustifiable; ambitious
What is pretentious
400
adj. deserving blame, worthy of condemnation
What is culpable
400
adj. cloudlike, resembling a cloud; cloudy in color, not transparent; vague, confused, indistinct
What is nebulous
400
v. to cause to disappear; to scatter, dispel; to spend foolishly, squander; to be extravagant in pursuit of pleasure
What is dissipate
400
adj. very careful and exact,attentive to fine points of etiquette
What is Punctilious
400
n. an object of intense dislike; a curse or strong denunciation (often used adjectivally without the article)
What is anathema
500
adj. mean, low, base
What is ignoble
500
vanishing, soon passing away; light and airy
What is evanescent
500
adj. untidy, dirty, careless
What is slovenly
500
adj. inspiring fear or awe; illustrious, eminent
What is Redoubtable
500
adj. coarse, unfeeling; stupid
What is Crass
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