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lackadaisical
Adjective
Meaning:
Lacking life, spirit or zest; languid
Usage:
Some teachers who are impatient with lackadaisical students
His teachers did not approve of his lackadaisical approach to homework
Feeling particularly lackadaisical in the summer heat, they lazily tossed a ball back and forth
choleric
Meaning:
Easily moved to often unreasonable or excessive anger; hot-tempered; angry, irate; bad tempered; irritable
Usage:
Watch out for the choleric librarian at the reference desk
I absolutely get choleric when a telemarketer calls during the dinner hour
A perpetually choleric old grouser
A choleric outburst
parvenu
Meaning:
One that has recently or suddenly risen to an unaccustomed position of wealth or power and has not yet gained the prestige, dignity or manner associated with it
Usage:
The kind of trophy house that a parvenu buys to prove to people and to himself that he has indeed arrived
Rejecting the pretensions of the peacocking parvenu is one of the sweetest pleasures left to the fallen aristocrat
concomitant
Meaning:
Following or accompanying as a consequence; accompanying especially in a subordinate or incidental way; happening at the same time as something else
Usage:
With its concomitant lightning, thunder and pelting rain, the storm sent the dogs running for the safety of the closet and we didn’t see them again for two hours
pensive
Adjective
Meaning:
Musingly or dreamily thoughtful; suggestive of sad thoughtfulness
Usage:
He was a pensive young poet
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unadulterated
Adjective
Meaning:
Not adulterated; pure; complete
Usage:
The unadulterated nonsense that you sometimes hear from political pundits on TV
He was an unadulterated fool
The unadulterated food enabled him to recover expeditiously
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