1. CLARITY: His accent cleared up so well that know everyone notices how he speaks with such clarity and eloquence.
2. COHERENT: She was so incoherent after 3 glasses of champagne that she started talking about politics when she was asked her name.
3. COHESIVE: I want my marriage to have love and trust be cohesive not having to chase one or the other.
4.ELOQUENCE: Jake spoke with such eloquence with his words flowing one after the other and fitting together in perfect harmony.
5. EMPHASIZE: Dave said the same sentence over and over to emphasize that we really needed to know that information for the test.
6. FLUID: I want to develop my Spanish skills to the point where I can translate between English and Spanish fluidly.
7. IMPLICATION: His comment about my hair gave the implication that he didn't like it.
8. LUCID: The way the guess teacher taught the class was a lot more lucid than the way our current teacher teaches the class.
9. RHETORIC: Dave also uses rhetoric to make sure we understand the concepts that we need to.
10. BIASED: In my statistics class, we are studying whether or not data are biased by factors like where you got the population from or how many people payed attention to the experiment.
11. EXCULPATE: Ford's exculpation of Nixon didn't really make him the most popular president.
12. IMPARTIAL: As a teacher, you can't always find the most impartial solution to every problem that arises with your students.
13. INCONTROVERTIBLE: My teacher declared the issue incontrovertible because neither side had a convincing argument.
14. INTEGRITY: His integrity about even situations that could have ended in bad consequences for him made people view him as a very trustworthy person.
15. PLAUSIBILITY: Some teachers don't really view Wikipedia as being one of the most plausible sources for a research paper because so many different people contribute to the site.
16. DISCOURSE: We had a very long discourse over the world wars changing topics every five minutes.
17. DIDACTIC: My grandma is a lot of the time didactic subconsciously telling me stories about things that are very pertinent in my life.
18. CONDESCENDING: He has a very condescending tone to the way he speaks, making everyone feel insignificant to him.
19. DICTATORIAL: He runs his class very dictatorially making every one feel like they are under his absolute control.
20. DISDAIN: Mo'nique played the role so well in the movie Precious that I disdained her character throughout the whole movie.
21. HAUGHTY: A very haughty Republican once told me the Dream Act is not worth debating. If you weren't born here, you shouldn't be given the privilege of being a citizen here in the US for ANY reason.
22. IMPERIOUS: A lot of students don't like his class because of his very imperious attitude towards the students and the school in general even though he's not the director.
23. PATRONIZING: I don't understand why some people try to patronize her for being an over-a chiever.
24. CRYPTIC: I wrote a very cryptic note to my friend for lying about what it was he was doing to let him know how much I didn't appreciate that.
25. FUTILE: I had a very futile argument with the manager of the store because they didn't want to give me the student discount.
26. IMPEDE: The rain tried to impede in the plans to go to the park that we had arranged months before, but luckily it lightened up and we were able to go anyway.
27. OBSCURE: As I was researching for my environmental science class, I realized that the idea of organic food is somewhat obscure.
28. QUANDARY: I found myself in a quandary when I found out my mom passed and I had just seen her an hour before.
29. INDOLENT: The indolent character of the book never wanted to participate in anything that had anything to do with movement.
30. INSIPID: My first time cooking spaghetti resulted in insipid disgust.
31. LISTLESS: I had a very listless spirit at the start of class because it was so early.
32. TORPOR: I felt plagued by extreme torpor after I ran the marathon.
33. ALIENATED: I felt alienated from the sorority girls because I didn't know anything about pledging.
34. ALLIANCE: I developed an alliance with my teammates whereas my opponent's team was segregated.
35. DISPARITY: I could feel the disparity between us before our first date.
36. SERVILE: I felt almost servile to the house guests giving them everything they wanted whenever they wanted it.
37. SUPPRESSED: I suppressed my feelings for him taking into account that he is 15 years older than me.
38. EMBELLISH: I embellished the plain statue to make it look more appealing to the visitors.
39. FLORID: When he came into my room my cheeks became florid and my feelings for him seeped through every part of me.
40. OPULENT: I aspire to be a very opulent and and lavish old lady someday.
41. ORNATE: I bought a very ornate Chanel purse to show all my friends.
42. OSTENTATIOUS: I put on a very ostentatious display in front of the audience to make my small role seem more important than it had been.
43. POIGNANT: I inhaled the very poignant smell of dead animal as I drove pass horrendous rode kill.
44. EBULLIENCE: My ebullience of happiness radiated through my spirit because I was so happy see my uncle make it home from the war.
45. EFFUSIVE: My emotions were effusive. How I felt carried over to everyone around me.
46. EGREGIOUS: Susan is always sure we don't have any egregious errors in our papers.
47. FLAGRANT: My lack of preparedness was flagrant to my teacher when I was asked what the book was about.
48. FRENETIC: I was frenetic when I thought I had won the lotto only to find out it was a fake ticket.
49. GRATUITOUS: When I told my mom I got a gratuitous laptop from my school, she ironically asked, "How much did it cost?"
50. SUPERFLUOUS: A lot of the times the way I feel about current events forces me to behave very superfluously in whatever direction I choose to go in.
Review: fluid (not fluent), incontrovertible, didactic (usually overt rather than subconscious), patronizing (usually negative), cryptic, insipid, poignant, gratuitous, superfluous.
ReplyDeleteMore details needed to show mastery: rhetoric, lucid, frenetic.