WORD GROUPS

Deceive/ Cheat Artifice Beguile Bilk Chicanery Chisel Cozen Dupe Delude/ Delusive Disaffected Guile Gull Hoodwink Hypocritical Hypocrisy Illusory Illusive Mulct Skullduggery Ruse } Trick Stratagem Transparent Diaphanous Lucid Limpid Pellucid Criticize/ Criticism Animadversion Censure Censorious Captious Carping Denounce Deprecate Invective Mordant Pan Rail Scorn Sarcasm Sardonic Scoff Stricture Trenchant Vitriolic Quarrel/Quarrelsome Altercation Bellicose Belligerent Bicker Brawl Contentious Disputatious Fray Fracas Firebrand Melee Polemical Pugnacious Tempestuous Truculence (Aggressive) Wrangle Bickering Squabble } Minor Quarrel Spat Skirmish Seemingly plausible but incorrect Sophist Sophistry Specious Stubborn/Unyielding Bigotry Defiance Doctrinaire Dogged Froward Implacable Inexorable Indomitable Intractable Invincible Insurmountable Insuperable Intransigent Monolithic Obdurate Obstinate Pertinacious Relentless Refractory Resolute Recalcitrant Debauched Amorous Bawdy Bedizen Dissolution Inveigle Lascivious } Lustful Lechery Lewd Promiscuous Prurient Profligate Scurrilous Unsavory Overblown/ Wordy Belabor Babble Diffuse Expatiate Gibberish Glib Prattle Warble Voluble Warm/ Friendly Affable Amiable Amicable Amenable (Also means

Wander from subject Diffuse Digress Discursive Tangential

Praise Eulogy Encomium Extol Sublime Exalt Kudos Panegyric Rave

Violate Blasphemy Defile Desecrate Profane Ribald Sacrilegious Wanton

Beginning/ Young Fledgling Neophyte Novice Sophomore Tyro

Delay Defer Dilatory Tarry Temporize

Careful Chary Prudent Circumspect Conscientious

Irritate/ Irritating Bilious Badger Cantankerous Chagrin

Scrupulous Meticulous Wary

Exasperate Fester Gall Gadfly Irksome Irascible Nettle Pique Rankle Rile Testy Vex Trivial Figurehead Exiguous Inconsequential Insubstantial Minutiae Minuscule Meager Nominal Negligible Paltry Puny Punctilious Scanty Trivia Trifling Venial Disapprove/ Scold Affront Admonish Belittle Berate Censure Chide Demean Decry Denuncification Disapprobation Excoriate Deprecate Disparage Pejorative Reprove Rebuke Reprimand Reproach Reprobation Raid Rant Revile Tirade Upbraid Vituperative

Answerable) Bland Congenial Complaisant Complacent Debonair Jaunty Winsome

Plunder Carnage Despoil Depredation Desolate Flay Fleece Pillage Rapacious

Calm/Impassive Bovine Deadpan Placid Dispassionate Insouciant Imperturbable Phlegmatic Stoic Stolid

Sad Disconsolate Despondent Dolorous Downcast Forlorn Funereal Lugubrious Morose Melancholy Plaintive Sullen Somber Saturnine Stygian

Confuse Baffled Bemuse Befuddle Confound Discomfit Disconcert Discombobulated Garbled Nonplus Muddle Obfuscate Perplex

Happy Blithe Beatific, Beatitude Buoyant Convivial Exuberance Exhilarating Exult Ebullience Enrapture Festive Felicity Frolicsome Jocurnal Jollity Jovial Jubilation Mirth Sanguine

Soothe Appease Assuage Alleviate Mollify Mitigate Moderate Propitiate Pacify

Miser Curmudgeon Grudging Niggardly Penurious Parsimonious Stingy Skinflint Skim Tightwad

Not wordy Laconic Taciturn Reticent Sententious Succinct

Weary Doldrums Languid Languor Lassitude Lackadaisical Lethargic Listless Sluggish Torpor Inert } Lazy Indolent Threaten / Frighten Browbeat Bait Cow Daunt Formidable Harry Heckler (verbal harasser) Intimidate Menacing Minatory Redoubtable Ruffian (Bully)

Arrogant Cavalier Haughty Hubris Imperious Overbearing Overweening Presumptuous Supercilious

Pompous Blowhard Bombastic Braggadocio Bloviate Braggart Braggadocio Consequential Inflated Magniloquent Pontifical Pompous Stilted Swagger Strut Tumid Vaunted Vainglorious Rude/ Disrespect Brazen Boorish (also rude) Curmudgeon Churlish Insolent Impertinence Impudence Irreverence Defame Aspersion Besmirch Calumny Detraction Discredit Denigrate Infamy Libel Malign Obloquy Opprobrium Slander Slur Vilify

Noisy/ Loud Boisterous Blare Clamorous Clarion (shrill sound) Carousal (drunken revel) Clangor Din Obstreperous Raucous Revelry Strident Stentorian Vociferous

Difficult to please Fastidious Finicky Squeamish Imitation Caricature Burlesque

Poor Cadge Destitute Impecunious Indigent Insolvent Mendicant (Beggar) Pauper Penury Privation Sorrow Disconsolate Doleful Dolor Elegiac Forlorn Lament Lugubrious Melancholy Morose Plaintive Threnody

Saying Adage Aphorism Apothegm Dictum Epigram Euphemism Figurative (Using figure of speech) Pithy Luck Talisman Providential Propitious Propitiate Optimum Kismet Fortuitous Auspicious Amulet Adventitious

Flattering Adulation Blandishment Coax Cajole Fawning Wheedle