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[Jun. 24th, 2006|03:53 pm] |
SANGUINE (saan gwuhn) adj.
Ruddy; cheerfully optimistic.
A sanguine person views the glass as half full, whereas the depressed person thinks it is half empty.
Syonyms: confident, hopeful, positive, rubicund. |
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[Jun. 24th, 2006|03:52 pm] |
MISANTHROPE (mihs ahn throhp) noun
A person who dislikes others.
Raquel the Grinch was such a misanthrope that even the sound of kids singing made her angry.
Synonyms: curmudgeon. |
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[Jun. 24th, 2006|03:52 pm] |
PERIPATETIC (peh ruh puh teh tehk) adj.
Wandering from place to place, especially on foot.
Raquel's peripatetic meanderings took her all over the countryside in summer months.
Synonyms: itinerant, nomadic, wayfaring. |
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[Jun. 23rd, 2006|04:54 pm] |
CRESCENDO (kruh shehn doh) noun
Steadily increasing in volume or force.
The crescendo of tension became unbearable as he prepared to jump off the cliff.
Synonyms: acme, capstone, climax, crest, culmen. |
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[Jun. 23rd, 2006|04:53 pm] |
SPECIOUS (spee shuhs) adj.
Deceptively attractive; seemingly plausible but fallacious.
The student's specious excuse for being late sounded legitimate, but was proved otherwise when the teacher called his home.
Synonyms: illusory, ostensible, plausible, sophistic, spurious. |
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[Jun. 23rd, 2006|04:51 pm] |
POLEMIC (puh leh mihk) noun
Controversy, argument; verbal attack.
The candidate's polemic against his opponent was vicious and small-minded rather than convincing and well-reasoned.
Synonyms: denunciation, refutation. |
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[Jun. 22nd, 2006|12:33 pm] |
FRUGALITY (fru gaa luh tee) noun
Tendency to be thirfty or cheap.
Scrooge "Raquel" McDuck's frugality was so great that she accumulated enough wealth to fill a giant storehouse with money. Duck tales! ooOOooh
Synonyms: cheapness, economy, parsimony. |
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[Jun. 22nd, 2006|12:32 pm] |
FALLOW (faa loh) adj.
Dormant, unused.
This field should lie fallow for a year so the soil does not become completely depleted.
Synonyms: idle, inactive, unseeded. |
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[Jun. 22nd, 2006|12:30 pm] |
EXCULPATE (ehk skuhl payt / ihk skuhl payt) verb
To clear from blame, to prove innocent.
The legal system is intended to convict those who are guilty and exculpate those who are innocent.
Synonyms: absolve, acquit, clear, exonerate, vindicate. |
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[Jun. 21st, 2006|08:08 pm] |
ICONOCLAST (ie kahn uh klaast) noun
One who opposes established beliefs, customs, and institutions.
Raquel's lack of regard for traditional beliefs soon established her as an iconoclast.
Synonyms: maverick, nonconformist, rebel, revolutionary. |
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[Jun. 21st, 2006|08:06 pm] |
MAUDLIN (mawd lihn) adj.
Overly sentimental.
The mother's death should have been a touching scene, but the movie's treatment of it was so maudlin, instead of making Raquel cry, it made her cringe.
Synonyms: bathetic, mawkish, saccharine, weepy. |
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[Jun. 21st, 2006|08:04 pm] |
INVIDIOUS (ihn vihd ee uhs) adj.
Envious, obnoxious, offensive; likely to promote ill-will.
It is cruel and invidious for Raquel to play favorites with her children.
Synonyms: discriminatory, insulting, jaundiced, resentful. |
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[Jun. 20th, 2006|06:16 pm] |
QUERULOUS (kwehr yoo luhs) adj.
Inclined to complain; irritable.
Raquel's complaint letter received prompt attention after the company
labeled her a querulous potential troublemaker.
Synonyms: Peevish, sniveling, whining, puling. |
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[Jun. 20th, 2006|06:16 pm] |
PUSILLANIMOUS (pyoo suh laa nih muhs) adj.
Cowardly; without courage.
Because she never stood up for herself or took any chances, everyone
thought of Raquel as pusillanimous.
Synonyms: Cowardly, timid. |
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[Jun. 20th, 2006|06:16 pm] |
POLYGLOT (pah lee glaht) noun
A speaker of many languages.
Raquel's extensive travels have helped her to become a true polyglot.
Synonyms: -- |
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[Jun. 19th, 2006|07:31 pm] |
CONTRITE (kuhn triet) adj.
Deeply sorrowful and repentant for a wrong.
After three residents were mugged in the lobby while the watchman was away from her post, Raquel felt very contrite.
Synonyms: apologetic, regretful, remorseful. |
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[Jun. 19th, 2006|07:28 pm] |
STASIS (stay sihs) noun
A state of static balance or equilibrium; stagnation.
The rusty, ivy-covered World War II tank had obviously been in stasis for years.
Synonyms: inertia, standstill. |
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[Jun. 19th, 2006|07:10 pm] |
BURGEON (buhr juhn) verb
To grow and flourish.
Raquel neither confirmed nor denied stories about herself, allowing rumors to burgeon where it could.
Synonyms: bloom, flourish, prosper, thrive. |
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