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the words are more directed towards lethargy, fatigue, and lacking lustre. Posti
ng the meaning below, let us know the pattern that you were talking about
1) Warble sing or play with trills
2) Languid fatigued, lacking enthusiasm
3) Lassitude lethargy, fatigue
4) Allusion indirect referral
5) Insinuate indirect/malicious implication
6) Innuendo malicious introduction
7) Elegy mournful poem
8) Wan dim, feeble,pale, lacking enthu,
fatigue
9) Elegiac resembling to an elegy
10) Sombre lacking brigtness/color, dull
soporific / sophomoric
insidious / invidious
ingenious / ingenuous
skittish / skirmish
snicker
ford
solecism / spoonerism
spate / spate
snivel
spry
>soporific - Sleep Inducing / sophomoric - Like a sophomore (student who has com
pleted his/her first year in college)
> insidious - intending to cheat or harm / invidious - intending to foment hatre
d
> ingenious - inventive, brilliant idea / ingenuous - harmless
> skittish - timid, naive, easily threatened / skirmish - small scale battle or
fight
> snicker - controlled laugh / simper - silly smile Can be confused with Simmer
- which means keep continuing to do something usually associated to heat or coo
king
> ford - shallow place in a river / sluice - canal or artificial path for contro
lled water flow
> solecism - grammatical errors / spoonerism - mixing up starting letters betwee
n words in a sentence - like Tranch of a bree instead of branch of a tree Ok IO
know that is a bad example, cant think better at the moment ;)
> spate - overflowing, ex. river in spate
> snivel - whine
> spry - vigorous, brisk
pernicious
very harmful; deadly
perspicacious
(of someone) having insight; penetrating; astute
perspicuous
(of something) plainly expressed; easy to understand; Ex. perspicuous comments
pertinacious
holding tenaciously to an action; stubborn