characterization words

Question 1

bigot

Answer 1

a person who is obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices

Question 2

braggot

Answer 2

a person who boasts loudly or exaggeratedly, bragger

Question 3

buffoon

Answer 3

a person who amuses others by trucks, jokes, odd gestures and postures

Question 4

bungler

Answer 4

a person who often fails to do things properly because they make mistakes or are clumsy

Question 5

charlatan

Answer 5

a pretender of medical skill

Question 6

colleague

Answer 6

someone you work with or someone who’s in the same professions as you

Question 7

connoisseur

Answer 7

a person with expert knowledge or training, especially in the fine arts

Question 8

culprit

Answer 8

a person responsible for something wrong, unpleasant etc.

Question 9

dilettante

Answer 9

a person having a superficial interest in an art or a branch of knowledge

Question 10

felon

Answer 10

a person who is guilty of a serious crime

Question 11

feminist

Answer 11

the belief that women and men should have equal rights and opportunities

Question 12

glutton

Answer 12

a person devoted to eating and drinking to excess; greedy person. often ironic

Question 13

gourmet

Answer 13

a culture ideal associated with the culinary arts of fine food and drink

Question 14

huckster

Answer 14

anyone who sells something or served biased interests, using pushy or showy tactics

Question 15

ingenue

Answer 15

a naive girl or young women

Question 16

luminary

Answer 16

a person of prominence or brilliant achievement

Question 17

magnate

Answer 17

a person of great influence, importance, or standing in a particular enterprise

Question 18

martyr

Answer 18

a person who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty of witnessing and refusing to renounce a religion

Question 19

nomad

Answer 19

a member of a group of people who no fixed home and move out according to the seasons from place in search of a group of people, water, food and grazing land

Question 20

oracle

Answer 20

a person or agency considered to provide wise and insightful counsel, or prophetic predictions

Question 21

pacifist

Answer 21

strongly and actively opposed to conflict and especially war pacifist beliefs

Question 22

paragon

Answer 22

someone or something that is the very best

Question 23

patriarch

Answer 23

one of the scriptural father of the human race or if the hebrew people

• a man is father or founder
• the oldest member or representative of a group

Question 24

prodigy

Answer 24

a person, especially a child or young person, having extraordinary talent or ability

Question 25

pundit

Answer 25

a person who makes comments or judgments, especially in an authoritative manner

Question 26

raconteur

Answer 26

a person who excels in telling anecdotes

Question 27

recluse

Answer 27

a person who leads a secluded or solitary life

Question 28

ruffian

Answer 28

a brutal person: bully

Question 29

saboteur

Answer 29

a person who destroys or damaged something deliberately

Question 30

schlemiel

Answer 30

a somewhat dopey, awkward person

Question 31

skeptic

Answer 31

an attitude of doubt or a disposition to incredulity

Question 32

tippler

Answer 32

a person who is habitually drunk

Question 33

tycoon

Answer 33

a wealthy and powerful businessperson or industrialist; a magnate

Question 34

urchin

Answer 34

a mischievous and often poor and raggedy clothed youngster street urchins

Question 35

virtuoso

Answer 35

a person who has special knowledge or skill in a field, individual excellence

Question 36

zealot

Answer 36

an extremely religious person