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chicanery
Have you ever gotten the sense that politicians or corporate leaders will say anything to turn public o
Besideschicanery, another funny-sounding word for trickery isshenanigans. Whereas the former is al
chicanery
the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
Regressive
Regressive
Regressive
Regressive
Goldbrick
Goldbrick
Nugatory
Nugatory
Nugatory
Vitriolic
Vitriolic
Vitriolic
intuitive
intuitive
intuitive
intuitive
visceral
Fallibility
Fallibility
Fallibility
Fallibility
Impugn
Impugn
Impugn
Impugn
Impugn
Goosebumps
Goosebumps
Laggard
Laggard
Laggard
Laggard
Laggard
Laggard
Scruffily
Scruffily
Scruffily
Nonplus
Nonplus
Ex: Psychics are intuitive. So are mothers when they know you're lying.
Ex: A process can be said to be intuitive as well, if it can be easily learned without an
Ex: obtained through intuition rather than from reasoning or observation
Ex: Visceral sensation is in your guts, coming from strong emotion and not from logic
liable to err
Ex: as a human, we are all fallibile, because fallible means like to make errors or fai
Ex: If a sceintific experiment data is fallible, it means you cannot trust number.
Opp: INFALLIBLE - Incapable of failure or error
To cause people to doubt someones character, qualities or reputation by critizing the
Impugnable, impugnability,impugner, impugnment
Ex: Are your usually grumpy brother is suddenly nice and sweet. You will impugn his
Ex: Are you impugning my copetence as a professional designer.
Ex: Are youOpp: UNIMPUGNABLE
to be very exited, spot on skin due to cold ect.
Ex: The young boy had a goosebumps when his football team won the championship
One that lags, responding slowly, sluggish
slow or delay in action
Person or thing that dose not go or move as quickly as others.
Ex: Staff were under enormous pressure and that there was no time for the laggards
Ex: I hate being stuck behind laggard motorists on the freeway
Ex: The company has been laggard in developing new product
Shabby and untide or dirty
Ex: a teenager in scruffily jeans and baggy T-shirts
Ex: The neighborhood is full of dilapidated houses with scruffily backyards.
perplexed, puzzeled completely, bewilderness
Ex: Puzzed that she left without saying Goodbye
Ex: the teacher shortage will render nugatory the hopes of implementing the new cu
Filled with bitter critic or malice
Harsh and corrosive in tone
Ex: Avoid using vitriolic lanuage whenever possible and you will keep your friends an
Intuitivemeans having the ability to understand or know something without any direct evidence or re
Hubris
Hubris
Obnubilate
Obnubilate
Obnubilate
PARASOL
serenade
serenade
disseminate
disseminate
disseminate
disseminate
gainsay
gainsay
gainsay
a piece of music sung or played in the open air, typically by a man at night under the window of his belove
to spread information, knowledge, opinions widely.Semin-derives from the Latin word for seed; the
aberrant
aberrant
aberrant
aberrant
aberrant
ASTRAY
ASTRAY
ASTRAY
ASTRAY
Fretting
Fretting
Fretting
Fretting
Fretting
Fretting
Impetus
Impetus
Impetus
Impetuous
impetuosity
impetuously
impetuousness
Usurp
philander
(of a man) readily or frequently enter into casual sexual relationships with women. ( Opp
coquette
ogle
perspicacity
the quality of having a ready insight into things; shrewdness. the ability to understand thi
aberrance,aberrancy.Notethat Abhorrentisdifferentmeaningdetestableorloaths
Ex: Turmeric could have important abilities in healing and preventing brain damage
out of the right way; off the correct or known road, path, or route
Ex: Despite specific instructions, they went astray and got lost
away from that which is right; into error, confusion, or undesirableaction or thought:
Ex: Limestone slowly frets away under pounding by the wind and rain
Ex: Advertisers hope their commercials will be an impetus to buy the product.
If you're a careful person who thinks everything through and doesn't act rashly, then you're
the trait of acting suddenly on impulse without reflection
the trait of acting suddenly on impulse without reflection
seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession
will say anything to turn public opinion their way? This tricky kind of deceit and manipulation is calledchicanery.
gans. Whereas the former is always used in the singular and involves deceptive language, the latter is usually used in the plural and r
e easily learned without any prior training like an easy-to-learn software programm
or observation
emotion and not from logic or reason
uffily backyards.
om the Latin word for seed; the idea withdisseminateis that information travels like seeds sown by a farmer.
aningdetestableorloathsome
bleaction or thought:
nd and rain
y the product.
onships with women. ( Oppsit of coquette). A philanderer is a guy who likes women.
used in the plural and refers to the actions of a person. Your crazy neighbor is up to his old shenanigans if he has begun doing weird
e has begun doing weird stuff again, but if a politician's chicanery is exposed, he will lose public trust and not be returned to office in