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not admitting of penetration or passage into or through; "an impenetrable fortress"; "impenetrable rain forests"
dense: permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter; "dense smoke"; "heavy fog"; "impenetrable gloom"
impossible to understand; "impenetrable jargon" |
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| expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively; "able to dazzle with his facile tongue"; "silver speech" |
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in a grave and sober manner; "he walked soberly toward the altar"
badly: to a severe or serious degree; "fingers so badly frozen they had to be amputated"; "badly injured"; "a severely impaired heart"; "is gravely ill"; "was seriously ill" |
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| marked by a ready flow of speech; "she is an extremely voluble young woman who engages in soliloquies not conversations" |
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dress: arrange attractively; "dress my hair for the wedding"
hairdo: the arrangement of the hair (especially a woman's hair) |
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| coltish: given to merry frolicking; "frolicsome students celebrated their graduation with parties and practical jokes" |
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recovering readily from adversity, depression, or the like
bouncy: elastic; rebounds readily; "clean bouncy hair"; "a lively tennis ball"; "as resilient as seasoned hickory"; "springy turf" |
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violate the sacred character of a place or language; "desecrate a cemetery"; "violate the sanctity of the church"; "profane the name of God"
remove the consecration from a person or an object |
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predict or reveal through, or as if through, divine inspiration
preach: deliver a sermon; "The minister is not preaching this Sunday" |
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deposit as a sediment
settle as sediment
matter that has been deposited by some natural process |
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| exasperating: extremely annoying or displeasing; "his cavelier curtness of manner was exasperating"; "I've had an exasperating day"; "her infuriating indifference"; "the ceaseless tumult of the jukebox was maddening" |
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serving to promote your interest; "was merciful only when mercy was expedient"
a means to an end; not necessarily a principled or ethical one
appropriate to a purpose; practical; "in the circumstances it was expedient to express loyalty" |
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serving to promote your interest; "was merciful only when mercy was expedient"
a means to an end; not necessarily a principled or ethical one
appropriate to a purpose; practical; "in the circumstances it was expedient to express loyalty" |
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necessity: anything indispensable; "food and shelter are necessities of life"; "the essentials of the good life"; "allow farmers to buy their requirements under favorable conditions"; "a place where the requisites of water fuel and fodder can be obtained"
needed: necessary for relief or supply; "provided them with all things needful" |
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| body waste: waste matter (as urine or sweat but especially feces) discharged from the body |
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| fledgling: young and inexperienced; "a fledgling enterprise"; "a fledgling skier"; "an unfledged lawyer" |
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unequivocally detestable; "abominable treatment of prisoners"; "detestable vices"; "execrable crimes"; "consequences odious to those you govern"- Edmund Burke
atrocious: exceptionally bad or displeasing; "atrocious taste"; "abominable workmanship"; "an awful voice"; "dreadful manners"; "a painful performance"; "terrible handwriting"; "an unspeakable odor came sweeping into the room" |
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tending to float on a liquid or rise in air or gas; "buoyant balloons"; "buoyant balsawood boats"; "a floaty scarf"
characterized by liveliness and lightheartedness; "buoyant spirits"; "his quick wit and chirpy humor"; "looking bright and well and chirpy"; "a perky little widow in her 70s" |
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away from the right path or direction; "he was led astray"
wide: far from the intended target; "the arrow went wide of the mark"; "a bullet went astray and killed a bystander" |
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