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adj. hypocritical
(a) careful in regard to your own interests
(b) lacking intent or capacity to injure
(c) easily impressed emotionally
(d) professing feelings or virtues one does not have
 
adj. balmy
(a) characterized by jokes and good humor; jocular; joking
(b) abstaining from sexual intercourse
(c) occurring or coming into existence after a person's death
(d) mild and pleasant; soft
 
adj. compliant
(a) reduced to liquid form by heating; liquified
(b) disposed or willing to comply
(c) sturdy; strong
(d) attempting to win favor by flattery; sycophantic; toadyish
 
adj. carping
(a) lacking in harmony; dissonant; inharmonic
(b) persistent petty and unjustified criticism; faultfinding
(c) spreading out in different directions; rambling; straggly
(d) very sophisticated especially because of surfeit
 
adj. sedate
(a) twisting; winding; sly; wily; treacherous
(b) dulled by surfeit
(c) contented to a fault with oneself or one's actions
(d) dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises; sober; solemn

 

adj. exacting
(a) showing unselfish concern for the welfare of others
(b) not continuing to grow indefinitely at the apex; definitive
(c) deviating from the general or common order or type
(d) trying; severe; demanding
 
adj. maddening
(a) characterized by extreme care and great effort; scrupulous
(b) extremely annoying or displeasing; vexing
(c) associated with the priesthood or priests; sacerdotal
(d) pertaining to or causing improvement in the offspring produced
 
adj. debonair
(a) highly praised
(b) so thin as to transmit light; filmy; see-through; sheer; transparent
(c) having a cheerful; charming jaunty
(d) habitually complaining; whiney; whiny
 
adj. colossal
(a) so great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe; stupendous
(b) rhapsodic; excited; delighted
(c) implied by or inferred from actions or statements; understood
(d) lacking orderly continuity; disjointed; disordered; illogical; scattered; unconnected
 
adj. querulous
(a) remote and separate physically or socially
(b) having or exerting a malignant influence; malign; evil
(c) (often followed by 'to') likely to be affected with; nonresistant; unresistant
(d) habitually complaining; whiney; whiny

adj. hypocritical (d) professing feelings or virtues one does not have
adj. balmy (d) mild and pleasant; soft
adj. compliant (b) disposed or willing to comply
adj. carping (b) persistent petty and unjustified criticism; faultfinding
adj. sedate (d) dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises; sober; solemn
adj. exacting (d) trying; severe; demanding
adj. maddening (b) extremely annoying or displeasing; vexing
adj. debonair (c) having a cheerful; charming jaunty
adj. colossal (a) so great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe; stupendous
adj. querulous (d) habitually complaining; whiney; whiny

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