conveying an emotion or an impression that is felt to be impossible to express using words
What is ineffable?
200
a concisely expressed principle or rule of conduct; a statement of a general truth; precept
What is a maxim?
200
rudely brief in speech or abrupt in manner
What is curt?
200
to abstain or keep away from; shun; avoid
What is to eschew?
200
person who or thing which embodies a quality; a typical example
What is an epitome?
200
undecided or indecisive
What is irresolute?
300
condition of being short- or near-sighted in vision or in attitude
What is myopia?
300
unfriendly, hostile; adverse in tendency or effect; harmful [applied to interactions, not to persons]
What is inimical?
300
to depart in a sudden and secret manner, esp. to avoid legal prosecution
What is to abscond?
300
a mark, trace, or visible sign of something no longer present or in existence
What is a vestige?
300
of, pertaining to, or capable of walking;
What is ambulatory?
400
an excessive interest in or enthusiasm for some one thing; craze
What is monomania?
400
[of a person] almost always silent; not liking to talk; uncommunicative
What is taciturn?
400
to confuse or puzzle mentally, to an extent that the notion of gaining understanding or "figuring out" the
source of confusion, or breaking the sense of being under a "spell," seems nearly or wholly impossible; to
bewilder
What is to mystify?
400
a continuous extent, succession, or whole, no part of which can be distinguished from neighboring parts
except by arbitrary division.
What is a continuum?
400
devoid of freshness or originality; hackneyed; trite; dull
What is banal?
500
a preconceived liking, partiality, preference
What is a predilection?
500
cynical; feeling disillusioned and wearily fed up towards some object due to over-exposure to it
What is jaded?
500
to draw out, lengthen in duration, prolong, extend (often longer than an audience would find desirable)
What is to protract?
500
a vague feeling of physical discomfort or uneasiness or inertia, as early in a illness; a vague awkwardness or moral or social decline
What is malaise?
500
of or befitting a son or daughter; having or assuming the relationship of child or offspring to parent