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an imposter, a quack. someone who pretends to have skills or knowledege he doesn't really possess.
Before we realized that the "doctor"was a charlatan, he had duped us out of one thousand dollars. |
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difficult to understand.
Proffesor Drudge's lecture on quark theory was so abstruse that it boggled my mind. |
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harmless.Unlikely to arouse strong feelings.Useless.
don't let the appearances fool you:that drooling old cpdger.though he looks innocuous, is a malicious mobster. |
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cheerful, promptness, quickness.
She was eager to visit her overseas relatives,so she made her plans with alacrity once the invitation and ticket arrived. |
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an abnormal absence of feeling or emotion.
On a torrid summer's afternoon i feel so languid that i would even be apathetic to an invitation to the new water park. |
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harsh,shrill,unpleasntly irratating sound.
The strident ring of the alarm vlock jolted him from a deep slepp. |
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a chain or shackle which resticts motion. to put on shackles or to restrict motion.
in a monumental explosion of energy, Superman burst the steel fetters asunder and flew off to find lois lane. |
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unpredictable, guided by chance or by sudden flights of fancy.
her capricious behavior made her a delightfully spontaneous, but hopelessly unreliable, friend. |
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to remove from an entanglement or difficulty.
the shepherd carefully extricated his hysterically bleating lamb from the barbed wire |
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to praise highly, to glorify.
because it was so diffucult to extol the virtues of their own candidate, the party chose instead to sling mud at the opposition. |
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