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| eleemosynary | adj. of or relating to charity : CHARITABLE, PHILANTHROPIC <a rich man given to many ____ activities> |
| insolent | adj. a : haughty and contemptuous or brutal in behavior or language : OVERBEARING <how insolent of late he is become -- Shakespeare> b : lacking usual or proper respect for rank or position : presumptuously disrespectful or familiar toward equals or superiors : provokingly free or pert ____ street-corner loafers> <I will not tolerate an ____ child> |
| sentient | adj. capable of sensation and of at least rudimentary consciousness <a ____ being> <the conception ... of impulsive, instinctive, and ____ life -- Susanne K. Langer> <these highly ____, motile, instinctive, and often intelligent creatures -- D.C.Peattie> |
| malcontent | n. a discontented person: a : one who bears a grudge from a sense of grievance or thwarted ambition |
| pluck | n. SPIRIT, COURAGE, RESOLUTION, NERVE |
| inimical | adj. having the disposition or temper of an enemy : viewing with disfavor : HOSTILE <mutually inimical blocs -- Wall Street Journal> <____ to that heresy -- George Meredith> b : reflecting or indicating hostility : UNFRIENDLY <a voice apparently cold and ____ -- Arnold Bennett> |
| apostate | n. one who has renounced or forsaken his religious faith or given up his moral allegiance |
| perfidy | n. the quality or state of being dishonest or disloyal : DECEIT, TREACHERY <such obvious liars that their ____ palled after it ceased to be amusing -- W.A.White> <the name of Judas has become a byword of covetousness and perfidy |
| pollyannish | adj. resembling or suggesting a Pollyanna especially by having an optimistic nature characterized by a tendency to find good in everything |
| strop | n. a band usually of leather backed with liner canvas for sharpening a razor |
| bilk | v. to cheat out of what is due : DEFRAUD <____ insurance companies of more than $1,000,000 -- Henry La Cossitt> |
| invidious | adj. of an unpleasant or objectionable nature : HATEFUL, OBNOXIOUS <____ remarks that were sometimes neither kind nor true -- John Hurkan> |
| propitiate | v. to appease and make favorable : CONCILIATE <the savage hunter and fisher is careful to ____ the animals and fish which he kills -- J.G.Frazer> |
| cynosure | n. one that attracts : a center of attraction or interest <the council too was a ____ of the nation's hopes -- Time> |
| polyglot | n. one who speaks or writes several languages |
