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  Word Descriptions vituperative, craven, vicarious, perverse, congenial, fallacious, indomitable, epicurean, cogent, diverse


   
Description of vituperative (adjective)
with abusive condemnation; with harsh denunciation

Samples of vituperative
Deeply committed to the pursuit of mathematics and the physical sciences, he stood up for the universities when they were attacked by vituperative radicals such as Cromwell's army chaplain, John Webster.



   
Description of craven (adjective)
cowardly; fearful

Samples of craven
Craven men will not stand up for what they believe in.



   
Description of vicarious (adjective)
taking the place of another; felt, received or done in place of another; indirect

Samples of vicarious
His fascination leads him to an agency which administers mental implants, so that he can have the vicarious experience of interplanetary travel injected into his memory.



   
Description of perverse (adjective)
willfully bent on doing the wrong thing; distorted; deviant

Samples of perverse
He finds nothing perverse about a man of the arts fighting sport's corner.
As a result, those at the bottom of the social heap were abandoned in a perverse kind of educational apartheid.



   
Description of congenial (adjective)
suited; pleasant; agreeable; affable

Samples of congenial
He found the bank's routine congenial, keeping greater worries at bay.
Some politicians freely confess that they have packed supposedly independent inquiries, in the hope they will produce a congenial result.



   
Description of fallacious (adjective)
misleading; mistaken; deceptive; disappointing unsound; false

Samples of fallacious
A used car salesman provided fallacious information that caused the naive man to purchase the old, broken car.



   
Description of indomitable (adjective)
not easily discouraged or defeated; unconquerable

Samples of indomitable
The underdog candidate had an indomitable spirit.



   
Description of epicurean (adjective)
pleasure-loving; hedonistic

Samples of epicurean
Epicurean philosophers were thrown out of Rome either in 173 or in 154 B.C.
The fare laid before Botha last night was hardly epicurean.



   
Description of cogent (adjective)
having the power to influence or convince; persuasive; influential

Samples of cogent
The lawyer makes compelling and cogent presentations, which evidently help him win 96 percent of his cases.
He made a short, cogent speech which his audience easily understood.



   
Description of diverse (adjective)
different; varied

Samples of diverse
The course offerings were so diverse I had a tough time choosing.



  Determinations of the words vituperative, craven, vicarious, perverse, congenial, fallacious, indomitable, epicurean, cogent, diverse

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