Synonyms Flashcards
Cloy
New Yorker: Irony can be as cloying as gushiness, in excessive doses.
fig. To satiate, surfeit, gratify beyond desire; to disgust, weary (with excess of anything).
to become uninteresting or distasteful through an overabundance. (a diet of cake and candy soon cloys).
Flinty
Hard, rugged, impenetrable,
3. a. fig. Of a person or his heart: Obdurate, unfeeling, hard-hearted.
S: Now that Letterman’s a flinty codger, an establishment figure, it’s become difficult to recall just how revolutionary his style of meta-comedy once felt (New Yorker).
S: Ted Cruz’s Flinty Path.
- Flinty (Spark on a callous)
- Callous (Think hard skin being coarse)
- Coarsened (Coarse hair around heart)
- Hard-hearted (Heart getting hard)
- Hardened (Hardened to hard boiled)
- hard-boiled (Egg with an impervious shell)
- Impervious (I_mpervious can’t sense_)
- Insensitive (Sense being incured in the smoker)
- Inured (
- Obdurate (obdurable is steel)
- Steely (s_tone covered in steel)_
- Stony (Stone for skin)
- Thick-skinned (Thick-skin=unfeeling)
- Unfeeling (Someone unfeeling is unyielding)
- Unyielding
Enumerate
1. to mention separately as if in counting; name one by one; specify, as in a list:
S: What can I but enumerate old themes?
S: Many of the texts enumerate specific business details: the price of goods purchased and sold, the interest rate on debt,
Enumerate A small baby rating the various catalogs.
Catalog Front page catalog cover with eyes of items (spaghetti sauce)
Itemize Items with eyes that are watching the S&P Index
Index S&P Index being wrapped in a Talis
Tally A Talis that is covering the tabbulates.
Tabulate
Chart
Number
Outline
- to ascertain the number of; count.
Enumerate
Calculate
Cipher
Count
Quanity
Tally
To attack
1. trans. To punish, damage, injure; to attack physically or verbally; (also) to reprimand severely. Also intr.
Attack
Strafe (Chaffe the Ass)
Assail (Ass with blisters) to attack vigourosly; to impinge upon, beset (Light assailed their eyes)
Blistered (Flaying a Fish with Blisters)
Flay (Flay a Faust Fish) to strip the skin off of; deprive or strip of money or property; castigate
Fustigate (Faust-igate pounce) to cudgel;
Trounce to beat severely; defeat decisively
S: Storms strafe South.
S: Furman confirmed that he spent part of Hurricane Sandy sitting at his breakfast table playing gin rummy, watching the winds strafe the Hudson.
Berate
Blister
Castigate
Censure
Lash
Reproach
Scathe
Fusillade
to attack (ground troops or installations) byairplanes with machine-gun fire.
Planes strafe South Asia
- Fusillade (Fuse Chaffing its outlet)
- Strafe (Chaffing a barge)
- Barrage (Barge on which football players blitz)
- Blitz (Small foot ball players blitzing to get the mortar)
- Mortar (Mortar mashing up pepper)
- Pepper (Pepper sprayed onto plaster)
- Plaster (Plaster wall being covered with shells)
- Shell
Bombard
Enfilade
Languid
TIRED
a. Of a person, animal, bodily function, etc.: weak, faint, or inert, esp. from illness or fatigue.
S: So began, for Oedipa, the languid, sinister blooming of The Tristero (Crying of Lot, 47)
- Languid (Lang-_squid drooping)_
- Droopy Lacking in spirit or courage; disheartened (droopy nerves)
- Enervated Without vigor or force. (Nerves making stripes on Flag)
- Flagging Becoming smaller or weaker; dwindling (Flag with a List)
- Listless Spiritless; indifferent. (Lists over Tucker Bond Watts)
- Tuckered
Pooped
Sagging
Wilting
Weary (winged)
Sleepy
SLEEPY (22.21)
- Languid (Lange boots and coma-toes
- Comatose torpor/lacking alertness (Coma-toes and eyebrowsy)
- Drowsy (eyebrowsy and weights on eyes)
- Heavy-eyed (weights on eyes with slum/burbs in pupils)
- Slumbery (Slums/burbs and stoops)
- Stuporous suspension of sensibility/**mental torpor/stupefaction (Stoop and y-awning)
- Yawny
Cataleptic
Dozy
Sedated
Snoozy
Somnolent
Soporific
Apathetic
APATHETIC
- Languid (Language and numb tongue)
- Benumbed (numb tongue detached)
- Detached (detached moosiant)
- Insouciant free from concern, worry, anxiety; blithe (Moosiant with a lot of phlegm)
- Phlegmatic not easily excited to action or emotion (phlegm dripping off trunk)
- Spunkless (Trunk and lying supine)
- Supine
Disinterested
Indifferenent
Olympian
Pluckless
Slack
Uncaring
Unconcerned
Withdrawn
Purloin
S: Congressional overseers have hacked into the C.I.A. network to purloinhidden documents on torture.
S: In 2000, the Republican majority put aside its professed disdain of judicial activism and helped to purloin the election for W., who went on to heedlessly invade Iraq and callously ignore Katrina
- Purloin (Sirloin inspected underneath a Besseler enlarger)
- Embezzle (Besseler inspecting Phil)
- Filch (Phil taking many pills)
- Pilfer (Pills being poached in a skillet)
- Poach (Poached eggs being spindled on loom)
- Swindle
Snatch
Rustle
Chic
Given to fashionable and striking display in manners and dress; that is a ‘dasher’
- Chic (Chick that is dapper)
- Dapper ( with teeth)
- Dressed to the teeth (or nines) (Teeth being dug into a Natty light)
- Natty dainty tidiness, taste, skill; fashionable-also of persons actions or behavior (Natty light that has a knob to open it)
- Nobby Relating to or characteristic of people of some wealth or social distinction; very smart or elegant, fashionable. In later use depreciative (Knob protruding on swan’s head).
- Soigne (Swan’s way sign that has pink trimming)
- Trim
Dashing
Jaunty
Sleek
Spruce
Well-groomed
Cheeky
S: (It was helped by Australians’ love of home ownership, known as the Great Aussie Dream; extremely low home-loan default rates; and soft spot for what Australians call a larrikin, the kind of cheeky and irreverent person that Mr. Symond personified in contrast to staid establishment bankers.)
S: Ms. de Maigret also offers a tongue-in-cheek crib sheet to her ruffled, devil-may-care brand of style with her 2014 book, “How to Be Parisian,” which has been published in 26 languages. Her cheeky tips include: “Cut your own hair or ask your sister to do it for you. Of course you know celebrity hairdressers, but only as friends.”
- Cheeky (Brass cheeks)
- Brash(y) tactless; hasty, rash (Brass crust on a pie)
- Crusty harsh, surly, rude. (Crust with large fresh peaches)
- Fresh (Peaches in Pert)
- Pert 1. open, unconcealed, public; 2. Of a person, esp. a young one, or one regarded as socially inferior: impertinent or saucy in speech or manners; malapert; cheeky (Pert being recalled for adding Hollandaise sauce)
- Saucy Boldly smart (Sauce coming out of someone’s snotty nose)
- Snot-nosed Snotty
Audacious
Insolent
Impudent
Wise-ass
Unflappable
Calm: Not subject to nervous excitement or anxiety
S: But he won in the best actor category for “Capote” (2005). As the eccentrically sociable, brilliantly probing and unflappably gay author of “In Cold Blood,” Mr. Hoffman flawlessly affected the real-life Truman Capote’s distinctly nasal, high-pitched voice and the naturally fey drama of his presence. Writing in The Times, A. O. Scott described the film as being about a writer’s relationship with his work.
S: Unflappable Djokovic.
- Unflappable (wings flapping disensing drug called ataraxia)
- Ataraxia State of freedom from emotional disturbance/anxiety; tranquility (Drug called ataraxia injected into Bovine creatures)
- Bovine stolid; dull; inert (Bovine cows dis and passionate marry Even and tempered)
- Dispassionate Free from/unaffected by passion; devoid of personal feeling or bias; impatial
- Even-tempered Not easily ruffled, annoyed, or disturbed (Even and tempered are both durable/energizer bunny)
- Imperturbable Incapabe of being upset or agitated; not easily excited. (Durable energizer bunny fucks moosiant)
- Insouciance Free from concern, worry, anxiety.
Gushy
S: Irony can be as cloying as gushiness, in excessive doses.
Gushy: (Gushers floating around in a bath)
Bathetic (Taking a bath and being washed with Cloyws)
Cloying: causing or tending to cause disgust or aversion through excess (a perfume of cloying sweetness): (Putting in a fuse with cloyws)
Effusive (Fuse being swallowed my a woman named maud)
Maudlin (Maud with name tag having her name tag scratched out by mawkish hawk)
Mawkish (mawkish hawk that eviscerates a chick and turns it to mush)
Mushy (mush being eaten with enormous blue spoon by a panda named namby-pamby.
Namby-pamby (Namby Pamby licking the smaltz from her cub).
Schmaltzy (Enormous pool of Schmaltzy grease being sopped with a gigantic piece of bread)
Soppy
Flounce
To go with agitated, clumsy, or violent motion;
- Dash (100 yard dash with belly flop at end)
- Flop (He flopped onto Flounder)
- FLOUNDER (Flounder caught by guy with name tag Jerk)
- Jerk (Jerk Jiggered Flounder)
- Jigger (Jigger/jiggle/joggle)
- Jiggle
- Joggle (After Jog, plunged into water)
- plunge (Plunged trash as well.)
- THRASH (Trash and MashWALLOWS)
- WALLOW wallop-the puppy walloped down the walk. (Wallow/Wallop)
- WELTER (He Walloped the man with a Welt)
- Wrench (after welt he hit the man with a wrench)
- Wriggle (and used the wrench for a getaway rig)
- Yank (Had to Yank the Rig really hard)
Quick/Dashing
prompt vigour of action; Impetuous
- Fleety (Feet at the headboard)
- Headlong breakneck speed; also rashly, recklessly, without care; also going head first: falling or plunging headlong (Headboard petting it)
- Light-footed/legged (go to other end of light-footed)
- Nimble quick light in movement, agile: mental/physical (A thimble on the big toe fo the leg)
- Snappy quick/sudden in action or performance. (Snap turtle snapping at thimble)
- Spirited (Snap turtle snapping with spirit)
Lively
Serious/Demure
Of persons (and their bearing, speech, etc.): Sober, grave, serious; reserved or composed in demeanour.
- Serious/ Demure (Mural nicely decorations outlining it)
- Decorous Dignified in conduct, manner, appearance, character. (Decorations pointing to grave)
- Grave Serious/ solemn (Le penseur is sitting in a grave)
- Pensive Expressing or revealing thoughtfulness, sometimes marked by sadness. Formal or self-restrained. (Le penseur on a resevation lectern)
- Reserved Avoiding familarity or intimacy with others. (Reservation lectern marked up with dates.)
- Sedate Calm, quiet, or composed, undisturbed by passion or excitement. (Dates all have Soberlin written above them)
- Sober habitually temperate; marked by seriousness, gravity, solemnity. (Sober/Solemn/ Somber)
- Solemn dignified or serious formality
- Somber dimly lighted; gloomy, depressing, dismal; extremely serious
- Staid settled in character; free from flightiness or caprice
- Weighty
