English Vocabulary: Adjectives B to G

adj.) rowdy

adv.) with rude overconfidence

adj.) easily broken or cracked

n.) someone who eats too much

adj.) demanding or exhausting

n.) sly, cunning trickery

adj.) outwardly generous; marked by excess A diamond ring is too lavish a gift for a first date

adj.) unhurried

adj.) likely; legally responsible for

v.) to loiter or dawdle

v.) to dislike to the point of disgust

adj.) rising to great heights, literally or figuratively

adj.) showing a desire to hurt another

v.) to move skillfully

n.) preoccupation with physical objects

adj.) having no justification; without limits

adj.) exhausted; worn down

adj.) looking back with a mixture of sadness and desire

v.) to refuse to give

adj.) being used to something

v.) to obtain

adj.) marked by sudden sharpness

adj.) next to; near

n.) an exclusive circle of people

adj.) unrefined in taste or manners; of crude, common material

v.) to gently urge or influence

adj.) adequate; capable or qualified to do a job

adj.) depressed; losing hope

adj.) lacking necessities; homeless The family was left destitute after the horrible fire

adj.) emotionally removed; objective in outlook

v.) to worsen over time

adj.) harmful; damaging

v.) to keep going; to survive

v.) to engage the whole attention of

v.) to follow as a result

v.) to captivate; to place under a spell

n.) an ideal example

n.) a lack of good sense; a foolish act

adj.) nearly hopeless; lonely from desertion

adj.) phony; attempting to deceive

adj.) lacking in seriousness; relatively unimportant

adj.) basically or primarily essential The Constitution ensures our fundamental rights

adv.) sneakily or secretively

adj.) tending to include all

v.) to bring upon oneself

adj.) unconcerned or uninterested

v.) to treat with leniency; to yield to

v.) to mix with other people

adj.) stingy with money

n.) total control or ownership of a sector of business

adj.) repetitive and boring

adj.) given to gloomy or deadly subject matter

v.) to do something as a favor; to put in one's debt by a favor

n.) the condition of being forgotten; a state marked by lack of awareness or consciousness Several films from the 1940s have lived on as classics, but most of them have fallen into oblivion

adj.) failing to notice or remember

adj.) relatively unknown and not easily understood; hidden by darkness

adj.) stubborn

n.) a balanced state

adj.) showing selfimportance

adj.) weighty and boring

v.) to go in front of; to exceed in rank or importance

n.) a person or thing that comes before

n.) a usually small remaining trace

v.) to abandon or disown

n.) a copy

v.) to correct severely and formally

n.) the clearing up or solving of a problem; determination

adv.) referring to two things occurring at the same time

n.) a doubter; one who withholds an opinion until seeing all evidence

adj.) slow and lazy

adj.) selfsatisfied in an annoying way

n.) persistence; firmness

adj.) hesitant; not fully developed or definite

n.) the boundary at the beginning of something; the point at which an effect is produced I opened the gate at the threshold of the estate

v.) to prosper and flourish

n.) a lack of courage or confidence

v.) to decorate

v.) to to cause suffering

adj) wealthy

n.) selfsatisfaction with a current state

adj.) serving to complete something

n.) readiness to conform to requirements

v.) to go along with what is requested

n.) mental calmness

n.) total destruction

adj.) deceptive due to a lack of straightforwardness; wandering and roundabout No one could have guessed the Joker's devious plan until he tricked Gotham with it

v.) to invent or develop

v.) to consume greedily

v.) to recognize or identify a problem

v.) to increase in extent or scope, often without control The disagreement escalated into a brawl

adj.) absolutely necessary

v.) to slip away or avoid

v.) to suggest or to bring to mind

adj.) free from a requirement that other people are held to Because I had served recently, I was exempt from jury duty