Tough Phrases!!!

Tough Phrases!!!

1. ASPERITY

-àthe quality of being hard to endure, uninviting or formidable or manner

Eg-he pointed this out with some asperit

1. BEATITUDE

 -àa state of supreme happiness or blessedness

Eg- the expression of beatitude the religious sometimes adopt .

1. CAPRICIOUS
   
   
   
   

• changeable; determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason

           Eg-a capricious climate .

1. CAPTIOUS

--àtending to find and call attention to faults

Eg- A captious attitude often causes difficulties in a relationship

2. Chloric

àbad-tempered or irritable

Eg- he was a choleric, self-important little man .

1. CORNUCOPIA

 ---àgoat's horn filled with grain and flowers and fruit symbolizing prosperity; the property of being extremely abundant .

Eg-- This is a time of abundance when bird, beast and insect gather to share the cornucopia.

3.denouement

--à I waited by the eighteenth green with thousands of spectators to see the denouement

4.Ekistics

--àthe study of human settlements

Eg-- the rudiments of ekisticsthe horrendous traffic jams were foreseeable.

10 . MENDACIOUS

--ànot telling the truth; lying

Eg-mendacious propaganda.

11.MEPHISTOPHELIAN

-àcharacteristic of a devil; wicked

Eg- His Mephistophelianeyes unsettled his teachers

12. NUGATORY

--àhaving little or no value or importance

Eg-Social custom made this proviso almost nugatory.

13. OTIOSE

--à superfluous or redundant (of a word or phrase); indolent; futile or functionless

Eg- there were occasions when I felt my efforts were rather otiose .

14 . PECCADILLO

-àa relatively minor fault or sin

Eg-the smallest governmental peccadillolife would become intolerable .

15. PELLUCID

--àtranslucently clear

Eg-mountains reflected in the pellucid waters .

16. PERCIPIENT

1.    --àhaving good insight or understanding; perceptive

Eg- he is a percipient interpreter of the public mood .

17. PROLIXITY

-àboring, drawn out verbosity

Eg-extended to great, unnecessary, or tedious Length .

18. RUBRIC

---àan established rule, tradition, or custom

Eg- a set of instructions or rules .

19.Sardonic

-----àgrimly mocking or cynical

Eg-Starkey attempted a sardonic smile.

20 . SCHADENFREUDE

--àdelight taken in another's misfortune

Eg- pleasure derived by someone from another person's misfortune .