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  Word Descriptions impetuous, digress, diffident, crafty, gruesome, insipid, detest, cumbersome, disdain, ingenuous


   
Description of impetuous (adjective: more impetuous; most impetuous; less impetuous; least impetuous)
rash; hasty; acting on impulse

Samples of impetuous
Young men and women are often impetuous in their decision making.
Highly nervous, he rushed into combat like a wound-up spring, diving on his foe in the impetuous manner that cost the life of many an inexperienced young aviator.



   
Description of digress (verb: digressed; digressing; digresses)
to depart from the subject under consideration

Samples of digress
His difference of opinion caused the politician to digress from his party and its platform.



   
Description of diffident (adjective: more diffident; most diffident; less diffident; least diffident)
shy

Samples of diffident
He seemed overly diffident to his boss at his promotion party.
He was diffident, seemingly vague, declaring a lack of knowledge and ignorance of education and of teaching, and that he knew only what he had learned through his own work as a painter.



   
Description of crafty (adjective: crafty; craftier; craftiest; less crafty; least crafty)
sly

Samples of crafty
The policemen wasn't sure he would catch the burglar; for the criminal had proved quite crafty.



   
Description of gruesome (adjective: more gruesome; most gruesome; less gruesome; least gruesome)
horrifying; terrible

Samples of gruesome
The accident scene was quite gruesome; even to the seasoned policemen.



   
Description of insipid (adjective: more insipid; most insipid; less insipid; least insipid)
uninteresting (e.g. conversation); bland

Samples of insipid
The girl's insipid small talk caused annoyance to the rest of the group.



   
Description of detest (verb: detested; detesting; detests)
to hate strongly

Samples of detest
I detest politicians and their lying, said the college student.
I don't like not having enough money and I don't like not having enough sex and I detest the way the children dress and I detest going to your mother's every week and I loathe the way you clench your teeth and I loathe the way you never help and I hate the way you never ask but I love you.



   
Description of cumbersome (adjective: cumbersome; more cumbersome; most cumbersome; less cumbersome; least cumbersome)
bulky

Samples of cumbersome
It was hard to fit the cumbersome couch through the front door.



   
Description of disdain (verb: disdained; disdaining; disdains)
to look down on with scorn

Samples of disdain
The woman gave him a look of disdain when he asked her for a date.
Often disdaining to wear a left-hand glove, he tore into the bowling to such effect that he scored around 62 runs per hour, a rate beaten by no "proper" batsman in cricket history except Jessop.



   
Description of ingenuous (adjective: more ingenuous; most ingenuous; less ingenuous; least ingenuous)
naturally simple; not complicated

Samples of ingenuous
Her life on the farm was ingenuous compared to her cousin's in the city.
She ran her tongue nervously over her lips, tasting the honey-coral lipgloss she'd applied carefully in an effort to banish her image as the ingenuous young art student, fresh from college.



  Determinations of the words impetuous, digress, diffident, crafty, gruesome, insipid, detest, cumbersome, disdain, ingenuous

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