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Cupidity
Noun Meaning: Greed for money or possessions
Usage: Cupidity cannot manage to bring happiness; therefore it is futile to amass wealth
Remonstrate
Verb Meaning: To make objections while pleading; protest, complain
Usage: The mothers of the kidnapped victims REMONSTRATED to the rogue government to release their children, claiming that the detention of the children violated human rights
Rogue
dishonest and unprincipled person
Parvenu
Noun Meaning: A person who has suddenly become wealthy, but not socially accepted as part of a higher class
Usage: The room was full of parvenus
Disabuse
Verb Meaning: To persuade somebody that his/her belief is not valid; persuade that the idea is mistaken
Usage: When I was a child I was quickly disabused of the notion that Santa Claus exists by my friends
Impecunious
Adjective Meaning: Lacking money; poor
Usage: If you are broke, penniless or strapped for cash, you could describe yourself as impecunious
Mellifluous
Adjective Meaning: Smooth and sweet sounding
Usage: His music is most mellifluous according to many
Bilious
Adjective Meaning: Irritable, always angry
Usage: Rex was bilious all morning
Sartorial
Adjective Meaning: Related to fashion or clothes
Usage: If it’s the day before a big event and you have no idea what to wear and nothing in your closet is going to cut it, you are facing a sartorial dilemma
Picayune
Adjective Meaning: Trifling or petty
Usage: They argued over the most picayune details
Jaundiced
Adjective Meaning: To be biased against due to envy or prejudice
Usage: She was jaundiced towards Olivia; though the two had once been best friends, Olivia had become class president
Factitious
Adjective Meaning: Artificial; not natural; bogus; not naturally created; fake
Usage: The defendant’s story was largely factitious and did not accord with eyewitness testimonies
Phantasmagorical
Adjective Meaning: Illusive, unreal
Usage: Those suffering from malaria fall into a feverish sleep and live in a world of Phantasmagoria
Blinkered
Adjective Meaning: To have a limited outlook or understanding; limited; narrow minded; not taking into account of other people’e opinions
Usage: They have a very blinkered view of life
Remonstrate
Verb Meaning: To make objections while pleading
Usage: The mothers of the kidnapped victims remonstrated to the government to release their children, claiming that the detention violated human rights
Profligate
Adjective Meaning: Spending resources recklessly or wastefully
Usage: He was living on a limited salary, however, was so profligate as to line all the walls of his apartment with pure silk
Profligate
Noun Meaning: Someone who spends resources recklessly or wastefully
Usage: Most lottery winners go from being conservative, frugal types to outright profligates, who blow millions on fast cars, lavish homes
Demur
Verb Meaning: To object or show reluctance; raise objections or show reluctance; hesitate
Usage: It would seem hazardous to demur to a proposition which is so widely accepted
Egregious
Adjective Meaning: Standing out in a negative way; shockingly bad
Usage: The leader’s abuse of human rights was so egregious that many world leaders demanded that he be tried in an international court for genocide
Chastise
Verb Meaning: To reprimand harshly
Usage: He was chastised for eating the snacks for the party
Extant
Adjective Meaning: Remaining; surviving; still in existence (usually refers to documents)
Usage: Despite many bookstores closing, many predict that some form of book dealing will still be EXTANT generations from now
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