1. Lassitude: fatigue
2. approbation: approval
3. insurgence: rebellion
4. antipathy: strong negative feeling against something
5. apathy: indifferent
6. folly: foolish
7. mendacious: telling lies
8. disseminate: to spread or scatter
9. obfuscate: to bewilder confuse
10. equivocation: to use words to be seem ambiguous
11. gaudy: showy
12. zephyr: gentle breeze
13. salvage: to save
14. render: to give
15. exacerbate: to make worse a situation
16. shrewd: good judgement, insight
17. implore: begging earnestly
18. baleful: threatening
19. assiduous: constant effort, diligent
20. maudlin: weak, emotionally unstable, sappy
21. profuse: abundant, giving away
22. exorbitant: highly excessive
23. stipulate: to specify a term to express a demand
24. dogmatic: relating to established principles
25. sophistry: a trick
26. abstruse: hard to understand
27. to instruct or benefit
28. mercurial: erratic
29. eschew: to go away from, keep away
30. destitute: lacking necessities of life
31. adage: saying, a traditional saying
32. palliate: to alleviate symptoms
Similar Words
Prudent = circumspect (watchful discreet, cautious)
parsimony = frugal not wasteful
perpetual = everlasting, continuing
jingoism- favoring loud manifestations of extreme patriotism
trifling- trivial- unimportant, insignificant
reproach- upbraid, censure - find fault or blame
disparaging- to belittle, to make feel worse
Words that Sound the Same
capacious- capable of holding
capricious- unpredictable, erratic
voracious: consuming a lot of food
rapacious: greedy inordinately (uncontrolled)
tentative- uncertain
tenacious- firm hold, cohesive, holding together
repudiate: to reject or disapprove
approbation: approval confirm
exacerbate: to make worse
exonerate: to free from guilt
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