obtrude - To impose (oneself or one's ideas) on others with undue insistence or without invitation.

Synonyms: push out, thrust out Usage: He never hesitated to obtrude his opinion on others, believing that everyone must value what he had to say.

excoriate - To censure strongly. Synonyms: abrade, condemn, denounce Usage: The newspaper printed an editorial that excoriated the administration for its inaction. carouse - To engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking. Synonyms: revel, make merry, roister, riot, wassail Usage: They were so happy to be finished with exams that they continued to carouse until morning, when the bartender finally asked them to leave.

captious - Marked by a disposition to find and point out trivial faults. Synonyms: faultfinding, critical Usage: She found the new professor to be captious, marking all the grammatical errors in her essays while ignoring the points she had tried to make. eristic - A person who disputes; who is good at or enjoys controversy. Synonyms: controversialist, disputant, debater Usage: He was a philosopher of the eristic sort, whose greatest pleasure was in tearing down the arguments of others. baneful - Causing harm, ruin, or death. Synonyms: pernicious, pestilent, deadly, harmful Usage: He made some commonplace observation upon the baneful effect of the night air at the season.

mercantile - Of or relating to merchants or trade. Synonyms: moneymaking, commercial Usage: While the nation's farmers faced a depression, mercantile enterprises flourished. unadulterated - Not mingled or diluted with extraneous matter. Synonyms: pure Usage: Because she did not like artificial or diluted flavors, she made sure to purchase unadulterated maple syrup. cogent - Appealing to the intellect or powers of reasoning; convincing.

Synonyms: telling, weighty Usage: Among other illustrations of its truth which might be cited, Scotland will furnish a cogent example. mellifluous - Flowing with sweetness or honey. Synonyms: mellisonant, dulcet, honeyed, sweet Usage: This he filled up with alcohol, and stirred the fiery and mellifluous ingredients together. perfidious - Of, relating to, or marked by perfidy; treacherous. Synonyms: punic, treacherous Usage: After Frank betrayed him, James swore he would never forgive his friend's perfidious behavior.

flummox - To confuse; perplex. Synonyms: baffle, bewilder, nonplus, puzzle Usage: The game was designed to flummox its players, presenting them with a series of complex riddles. bode - To be an omen of. Synonyms: augur, portend, foreshadow, presage, foretell Usage: The peace accord bodes well for the city under siege. waft - To cause to go gently and smoothly through the air or over water. Synonyms: drift, float, blow Usage: The scent of her perfume wafted through the room. relegate - To assign to an obscure place, position, or condition. Synonyms: pass on, submit Usage: After allowing the other team to score on three consecutive shots, he was relegated to the bench.

smattering - A small, scattered amount or number. Synonyms: handful Usage: Her skin had a healthy glow, and her nose was dotted with a smattering of freckles. solemnity - A trait of dignified seriousness. Synonyms: staidness, sedateness Usage: Do I seem to have lost my solemnity, my gravity, my poise, my dignity? antecedent - One that precedes another. Synonyms: cause, forerunner, ancestor Usage: They all saw the vase crash, but what the antecedent was, they could not determine.

bandog - A dog, such as a mastiff, kept chained as a watchdog or because of its ferocious aggressiveness. Synonyms: watchdog Usage: As soon as they saw the bandog outside, the would-be robbers decided to try their luck elsewhere.

maudlin - Effusively or tearfully sentimental. Synonyms: bathetic, mawkish, schmaltzy, mushy, drippy Usage: When the farewells were in danger of becoming maudlin, he judged that it was time to leave. inexorable - Not capable of being persuaded by entreaty; relentless. Synonyms: relentless, grim, unappeasable, unrelenting, unforgiving, stern Usage: The inexorable investigator questioned the witness repeatedly, long after she had been reduced to tears and claimed to know nothing more.

slacker - One who shirks work or duty, especially one who tries to evade military service in wartime. Synonyms: shirker Usage: Jim was a slacker and made the rest of his group do all the work on the project. vapidity - The quality of being vapid and unsophisticated. Synonyms: jejunity, tameness, dullness Usage: She was a beautiful woman, but her vapidity and ignorance made her an intolerably tiresome conversationalist.

fatuous - Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish. Synonyms: asinine, inane, vacuous, mindless Usage: He made these fatuous pronouncements with such conviction that no one dared to contradict him. facetious - Playfully jocular; humorous. Synonyms: bantering, tongue-in-cheek Usage: She was quite gullible and could never tell when his remarks were facetious or when he was being serious. peccant - Sinful; guilty; violating a rule or an accepted practice. Synonyms: peccable, erring, wicked Usage: He was punished for his peccant behavior, to serve as an example for the other villagers.

raze - To level to the ground; demolish. Synonyms: dismantle, pull down, tear down, level Usage: They would raze our cities, leaving not one stone upon another. descry - To catch sight of (something difficult to discern). Synonyms: espy, spot, spy Usage: Often he withdrew his eyes, timidly looking among the crowd, for he dreaded to descry there the face of the pretty Frisian girl. cogitate - To take careful thought or think carefully about. Synonyms: cerebrate, ponder, meditate, mull, reflect, contemplate Usage: After cogitating for a while, she decided to buy the dress. deprecate - To belittle; depreciate. Synonyms: depreciate Usage: The teacher should not deprecate his student's efforts. obviate - To anticipate and dispose of effectively; render unnecessary. Synonyms: rid of, eliminate Usage: Her discovery of an old wedding dress in the attic obviated the need for her to buy a costume for the party.

nefarious - Infamous by way of being extremely wicked. Synonyms: villainous, wicked Usage: The nefarious plot to blow up the Parliament was discovered in time. cantankerous - Ill-tempered and quarrelsome; disagreeable. Synonyms: bloody-minded Usage: She made it more difficult for him by adopting a cantankerous tone.

turgid - Excessively ornate or complex in style or language. Synonyms: bombastic, declamatory, orotund, tumid, large Usage: Growing impatient with the politician's turgid prose, she turned off her television.

insentient - Devoid of sensation or consciousness; inanimate. Synonyms: insensate

Usage: Jim thought he might be losing his mind when he caught himself talking to insentient objects.

seminal - Highly influential in an original way; constituting or providing a basis for further development. Synonyms: germinal, originative Usage: He prepared a speech describing his experiment, never realizing that his presentation would be the seminal event in the development of a new theory.

adumbrate - To give a sketchy outline of; to disclose partially or guardedly. Synonyms: outline, sketch, intimate, insinuate Usage: Before beginning his dissertation, he adumbrated his ideas to his professor.

vituperate - To rebuke or criticize harshly or abusively. Synonyms: berate, revile, vilify, rail Usage: The activists gathered to vituperate the government's programs.

splenetic - Of or relating to the spleen; Affected or marked by ill humor or irritability. Synonyms: lienal, splenic Usage: His splenetic nature was both gross and uncalled for. meretricious - Attracting attention in a vulgar manner. Synonyms: flashy, garish, gaudy, tawdry, trashy, tacky Usage: He was thinking of his own self; he hankered after the meretricious glory of a showy performance. monolithic - Massive, solid, and uniform Synonyms: massive, monumental Usage: During her travels, she studied the monolithic proportions of Stalinist architecture. eidetic - Of, relating to, or marked by extraordinarily detailed and vivid recall of visual images. Synonyms: representational Usage: Thanks to her eidetic memory, she was able to remember every detail of the scene when sketching it later. duteous - Obedient or dutiful. Synonyms: dutiful

Usage: Patient Griselda was a chaste and duteous wife.

clairvoyance - Apparent power to perceive things that are not present to the senses. Synonyms: ESP, extrasensory perception, second sight Usage: She felt it, and visioned it as by an unthinkable clairvoyance, and gasped, for the flurry of war was over.

bedlam - A place or situation of noisy uproar and confusion. Synonyms: chaos, pandemonium, topsy-turvydom, topsy-turvyness Usage: They quarreled and bickered more than ever among themselves, till at times the camp was a howling bedlam.

banal - Drearily commonplace and often predictable; trite. Synonyms: commonplace, trivial Usage: The melodrama was quite clich, and, by now, completely banal.

nonpareil - Having no equal; peerless. Synonyms: nonesuch, nonsuch, apotheosis, ideal, paragon, saint Usage: An 'Only' is a nonpareil, the feller that does one kind of a turn better'n any other feller.

jibe - To be in accord; agree. Synonyms: correspond, match, tally Usage: The two stories don't jibe in many details.

carouse - To engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking. Synonyms: revel, make merry, roister, riot, wassail Usage: They were so happy to be finished with exams that they continued to carouse until morning, when the bartender finally asked them to leave.

equanimity - The quality of being calm and even-tempered.

Synonyms: calmness, composure Usage: Because she was prepared for the news, she was able to respond with equanimity.

gelid - Very cold; icy. Synonyms: frigid, glacial Usage: After only a few minutes in the gelid wind, they were shivering too hard to speak.

vilify - To make vicious and defamatory statements about. Synonyms: revile, vituperate, rail Usage: The Nazi propaganda vilified the Jews. quail - To shrink back in fear; cower. Synonyms: cringe, flinch, recoil, wince Usage: Even the bravest man would quail from the frightening story she just recounted.

cloistered - Of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows. Synonyms: conventual, monastic Usage: I am not cloistered away without a sense of the world, said the Monk. "It is from this solitude where I do make sense of it all." didactic - Intended to instruct. Synonyms: didactical Usage: "The principal difficulty in your case," remarked Holmes, in his didactic fashion, "lay in the fact of there being too much evidence." laconic - Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise. Synonyms: terse, curt, crisp Usage: Even so, our acquaintance might have been no more than a hand-grip and a wordhe was a laconic old fellowhad it not been for the drinking. vitriolic - Bitterly scathing; caustic. Synonyms: acid, blistering, caustic, venomous, acrid, acerbic, bitter Usage: His vitriolic speech attacking his opponent hurt his popularity with voters. intransigent - Refusing to moderate a position, especially an extreme position; uncompromising. Synonyms: adamant, inexorable, adamantine Usage: My father is an intransigent conservative opposed to every liberal tendency.

extrude

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Definition: (verb) Form or shape by forcing through an opening. Synonyms: squeeze out Usage: The pasta machine extruded the dough through a series of small holes, thus shaping it into spaghetti