adj. enigmatic
(a) having a cheerful, lively, and self-confident air; debonaire; jaunty
(b) diagrammatic
(c) resembling an oracle in obscurity of thought
(d) existing in name only
adj. exiguous
(a) extremely scanty
(b) inclined to a healthy reddish color often associated with outdoor life; florid; sanguine
(c) violently agitated and turbulent; rough
(d) contemptibly small in amount
adj. uxorious
(a) intermittently stopping and starting
(b) abusing vocally; jeering; mocking; taunting
(c) foolishly fond of or submissive to your wife
(d) diagrammatic
adj. outspoken
(a) inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace
(b) characterized by directness in manner or speech; forthright; frank; point-blank; straight-from-the-shoulder
(c) narrow-minded; having a limited perspective
(d) pitted with cell-like cavities (as a honeycomb); cavitied; honeycombed; pitted
adj. prim
(a) reflecting light; sheeny; shiny; shining
(b) exaggeratedly proper; prudish; puritanical; square-toed; straitlaced; strait-laced
(c) serving to warn; monitory
(d) skillful in physical movements; dextrous |
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adj. degraded
(a) lowered in value
(b) extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary; projecting; protruding; relieved
(c) characterized by extravagance and profusion; lush; plush; plushy
(d) (usually followed by 'with') well informed about or knowing thoroughly
adj. reticent
(a) having a hardened covering
(b) not elegant or graceful in expression; inapt; inept; ill-chosen
(c) ludicrously odd; fantastical
(d) reluctant to draw attention to yourself; retiring
adj. fractious
(a) unpredictably difficult in operation
(b) of great mass; giant; jumbo
(c) disinclined to work or exertion; lazy; otiose; slothful; work-shy
(d) old-fashioned and out of date; unprogressive; nonprogressive
adj. cuticular
(a) narrowly restricted in outlook or scope
(b) showing a brooding ill humor; glowering; glum; moody; morose; sour; sullen
(c) epidermic; dermal
(d) patiently bearing continual wrongs or trouble
adj. stimulated
(a) emotionally aroused; stirred up; aroused
(b) resembling a creature with the body of a lion and the face of a woman
(c) inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits; disputative; litigious
(d) dark and dismal as of the rivers Acheron and Styx in Hades |
