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Verb
Adjective
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100
An obvious exaggeration, intentionally used for emphasis and not to be taken literally
What is Hyperbole?
100
Indirect reference
What is Allusion?
100
Expressive of sorrow or melancholy; sad or mournful
What is Plaintive?
100
To remove from a high position, as a throne
What is Depose?
100
Some praise for an achievement
What is Kudos?
200
The tendency of a system to maintain internal stability; the condition of equilibrium
What is Homoeostasis
200
To make watertight
What is Caulk?
200
Next to last
What is Penultimate?
200
To regard to worship as a god
What is Deify?
200
Clear, transparent; free from obscurity; completely calm
What is Limpid?
300
The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language; a roundabout expression
What is Circumlocution?
300
To wither away, decay
What is Atrophy?
300
Fanciful, imaginary, visionary, impossible
What is Chimerical?
300
To violate the sacredness of a thing or place
What is Desecrate?
300
A somewhat continuous unstratified metal-bearing vein
What is Lode?
400
An upper middle-class person, capitalist
What is Bourgeois?
400
To make better or improve, as in quality or social or physical condition
What is Meliorate?
400
Meticulous, demanding, having high and often unattainable standards (usually for oneself)
What is Fastidious?
400
A cranky person
What is Curmudgeon?
400
Debatable; deprived of practical significance
What is Moot?
500
An unreasonable fear of strangers, foreigners or anything foreign, strange or different
What is Xenophobia?
500
To scold harshly and abusively
What is Vituperate?
500
Skilled at or given to unrehearsed speech or performance
What is Extemporaneous?
500
Moral corruption or degradation
What is Depravity?
500
A linking or connection; cooperation; the person who facilitates communication or cooperation between two groups
What is Liaison?
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