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| Explanation of consummate (adjective) perfect or highly accomplished; excellent; skilled; complete Sample of consummate Sole at the heart of Scotland for many years to come Robert Armstrong on the consummate skills of the new national captain. Alas! his only response to the friendly gesture was to urinate accidentally on him, which was of consummate embarrassment to his mother, and not quite in the spirit of musar!
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| Explanation of remunerative (adjective) profitable; lucrative Sample of remunerative In Auckland there are many industries and manufacturers where Maltese laborers and mechanics may find immediate and very remunerative employment.
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| Explanation of ghastly (adjective) horrible; deathlike; shocking; frightening Sample of ghastly Fritz gave her an earnest look which was, if anything, even more ghastly and idiotic than his grin.
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| Explanation of jaunty (adjective) having an air of easy carelessness or liveliness; stylish; merry Sample of jaunty A pleasant surprise so early in the day: Lucy had style, from well-cut red-gold hair down through the subtly tailored suit, to the jaunty tap-tap of gray suede sub-stilettos.
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| Explanation of equable (adjective) regular; uniform; even Sample of equable Internally, a hardwood floor surface helped to maintain an equable temperature, permitted work to be done in bare feet and simplified the recovery of waste cotton. Bristol's equable climate probably favors the survival of this warmth-loving species; though present in certain northern cities, such as Sheffield where five are known, the wild fig elsewhere remains small and vulnerable.
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| Explanation of implacable (adjective) unwilling to be pacified or appeased; impossible to pacify; inexorable Sample of implacable The baby was so implacable a warm bottle would not settle her. The two year old was an implacable child; he cried no matter what his parents did to comfort him.
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| Explanation of innocuous (adjective) harmless; dull; insipid; uninteresting Sample of innocuous The remark was rude but innocuous. He couldn't bear to sit through another innocuous lecture. The teens engaged in an innocuous game of touch football.
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| Explanation of tremulous (adjective) frightened; quivering Sample of tremulous This scarcely perceptible but ubiquitous twitching, described by Ludens as like the slight tremulous movement of leaves on a tree or ripples on a pool, was one of the strangest, and in an odd way most convincing manifestations of the raising of Patrick.
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| Explanation of inscrutable (adjective) incapable of interpretation or understanding; impenetrable; mysterious Sample of inscrutable You can get a list from the Japanese Tourist Board in London, which for some inscrutable reason gives only half of them. Magnificent Karnak, with its corridors of stone rams, sky-embracing pillars and gigantic inscrutable statues, stretching apparently as far as the eye can see, is breathtaking.
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| Explanation of distraught (adjective) mentally distressed; distracted; crazed; bewildered; hysterical Sample of distraught Then, at random almost, she picked up one of the other cuttings, which showed Harriet Shakespeare's plain, squashed face looking white and distraught and pitiful as she leaned against a friend's arm.
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