FELICITOUS PHRASES A ability, humor, and perspicacity [perspicacity = perceptive] abrupt, rough, and immoderate abstruse, metaphysical, and idealistic abundant, varied, and vigorous accessible, knowable, and demonstrable accomplished, inventive, and deft-fingered accuracy, ease, and grace acquire, classify, and arrange action, incident, and interest active, learned, and liberal acts, activities, and aims actual, stern, and pathetic acuteness, honesty, and, fearlessness addition, correction, and amplification adventurous, eager, and afraid affected, pedantic, and vain [pedantic = attention to detail or rules] affluent, genial, and frank aggressive, envious, and arrogant agreeable, engaging, and delightful air, woodland, and water alarmed, anxious, and uneasy alert, hopeful, and practical amazement, resentment, and indignation ambiguous, strange, and sinister amiable, genial, and charitable amusing, sympathetic, and interesting ancient, subtle, and treacherous annoyances, shifts, and inconveniences anxious, fearful, and anticipative appearance, conversation, and bearing approbation, wealth, and power [approbation = warm approval; praise] apt, explicit, and communicative ardent, undisciplined, and undirected arrogance, conceit, and disdain artificial, rhetorical, and mundane artistic, progressive, and popular aspirations, dreams, and devotions assured, stern, and judicial astonishment, apprehension, and horror attainments, possessions, and character attention, forbearance, and patience attract, interest, and persuade augmenting, furthering, and reenforcing austere, calm, and somber authority, leadership, and command avarice, pride, and revenge awakened, girded, and active awe, reverence, and adoration awkwardness, narrowness, and self-consciousness B barbarous, shapeless, and irregular beautiful, graceful, and accomplished beggar, thief, and impostor belittling, personal, and selfish birth, rank, and fortune bitter, baleful, and venomous bland, patient, and methodical blessing, bestowing, and welcoming blind, partial, and prejudiced blithe, innocent, and free bluster, swagger, and might body, soul, and mind boisterous, undignified, and vulgar bold, original, and ingenious bombastic, incongruous, and unsymmetrical bountiful, exuberant, and luxurious brain, energy, and enterprise brave, authoritative, and confident breadth, richness, and freshness breathless, confused, and exhilarated brief, isolated, and fragmentary brilliancy, energy, and zeal broad, spare, and athletic broken, apologetic, and confused brotherhood, humanity, and chivalry brusqueness, rudeness, and self-assertion brutish, repulsive, and terrible busy, active, and toiling C calculated, logical, and dispassionate calm, earnest, and genial candor, integrity, and straightforwardness capricious, perverse, and prejudiced careful, reasoned, and courteous cautious, prudent, and decisive caviling, petulance, and discontent censured, slighted, and despised certain, swift, and final chance, doubt, and mutability character, life, and aims charitable, just, and true charm, grace, and glory cheerful, modest, and delicate childish, discordant, and superfluous chill, harden, and repel circumstances, properties, and characteristics civilized, mild, and humane clear, cloudless, and serene cleverness, independence, and originality coarseness, violence, and cunning coherent, interdependent, and logical cold, cynical, and relentless color, intensity, and vivacity comfort, virtue, and happiness comments, criticisms, and judgments common, dull, and threadbare compact, determinate, and engaging conceited, commonplace, and uninspiring conception, direction, and organization confident, inflexible, and uncontrollable conflict, confusion, and disintegration confused, broken, and fragmentary conscience, heart, and life conscientious, clear-headed, and accurate consistent, thoughtful, and steadfast consoling, pacifying, and benign constant, wise, and sympathetic constitution, temperament, and habits convince, convert, and reconstruct copious, redundant, and involved corroding, venomous, and malignant corrupt, self-seeking, and dishonest countenance, voice, and manner country, lake, and mountain courage, patience, and honesty courteous, patient, and indefatigable covetousness, selfishness, and ignorance credulous, weak, and superstitious crimes, follies, and misfortunes crisp, emphatic, and powerful crude, warped, and barren cruelty, violence, and injustice culture, growth, and progress cunning, cruelty, and treachery curious, fantastic, and charming D danger, difficulty, and hardship darkness, doubt, and difficulty dazzle, amaze, and overpower deadly, silent, and inaccessible deceitful, lazy, and dishonest decent, respectable, and sensible decisions, affirmations, and denials deep, flexible, and melodious defeated, discredited, and despised deferential, conciliatory, and courteous definite, tangible, and practicable deftness, delicacy, and veracity degraded, defeated, and emasculated dejected, discouraged, and disappointed deliberately, coolly, and methodically delicate, mobile, and complex delightful, witty, and sensible denounced, persecuted, and reviled dependent, subsidiary, and allied depth, tenderness, and sublimity desolated, impoverished, and embittered despair, finality, and hopelessness detailed, described, and explained devastating, horrible, and irremediable devout, gentle, and kindly difficult, painful, and slow digestion, circulation, and assimilation dignity, solemnity, and responsibility diligent, cautious, and painstaking dingy, cumbersome, and depressing directness, spontaneity, and simplicity disciplined, drilled, and trained discontent, revolt, and despair discordant, coarse, and unpleasing discourses, lectures, and harangues disheveled, wild, and distracted disinterested, patient, and exact dislikes, jealousies, and ambitions dismal, cold, and dead dismay, remorse, and anguish disordered, wild, and incoherent dispassionate, wise, and intelligent disposition, taste, and temperament dissension, discord, and rebellion distracted, hopeless, and bankrupt disturbed, shaken, and distressed diversified, animated, and rapid division, prejudice, and antagonism doctrine, life, and destiny dogmatic, scientific, and philosophic doubt, cynicism, and indifference draggled, dirty, and slouching dramatic, picturesque, and vigorous dream, speculate, and philosophize drunkenness, licentiousness, and profanity dry, inane, and droll dull, hideous, and arid dullards, hypocrites, and cowards dust, turmoil, and smoke duties, labors, and anxieties dwarfed, scant, and wretched E eagerness, heartiness, and vehemence earnestness, zeal, and intelligence ease, power, and self-confidence easy, natural, and unembarrassed effluent, radiating, and fructifying egotistic, disdainful, and proud elegant, convincing, and irresistible emotion, affection, and desire empty, noisy, and blundering end, aim, and purpose energies, capacities, and opportunities enlighten, uplift, and strengthen enmity, suspicion, and hatred enrich, discipline, and embellish enthusiasm, vehemence, and spirit envy, jealousy, and malice equable, animated, and alert erect, elastic, and graceful error, ignorance, and strife essence, existence, and identity esteem, confidence, and affection evil, disease, and death exact, logical, and convincing examine, compare, and decide excessive, inaccurate, and unliterary excitements, interests, and responsibilities experience, knowledge, and conduct exposure, ruin, and flight exterior, formal, and imposing F faded, dusty, and unread failures, experiences, and ambitions fair, proud, and handsome fairies, sprites, and angels faith, hope, and love false, wicked, and disloyal fantastic, absurd, and impossible fear, dread, and apprehension features, form, and height feeble, illogical, and vicious feelings, motives, and desires fertility, ingenuity, and resource fervently, patiently, and persistently fibs, myths, and fables fierce, dogmatic, and bigoted figure, face, and attitude fire, force, and passion flit, change, and vary flushed, trembling, and unstrung foibles, tricks, and fads foliage, color, and symmetry follies, fashions, and infatuations foolish, ignorant, and unscrupulous force, grace, and symmetry forcible, extraordinary, and sublime foremost, preeminent, and incomparable foresight, prudence, and economy form, color, and distance formless, silent, and awful forward, onward, and upward frank, kindly, and unfaltering free, equal, and just freedom, honor, and dignity fresh, vigorous, and telling fretfulness, irritability, and petulance friendly, amiable, and sincere frigid, austere, and splendid fruitful, luminous, and progressive full, animated, and varied fullness, force, and precision furious, sanguinary, and disorganizing fustian, padding, and irrelevancy G gaunt, desolate, and despoiled gay, easy, and cordial generous, large-hearted, and magnanimous genial, frank, and confiding genius, learning, and virtue gentle, firm, and loving genuineness, disinterestedness, and strength germinate, develop, and radiate gesture, accent, and attitude ghastly, hateful, and ugly gibes, sneers, and anger gifts, graces, and accomplishments gladness, exaltation, and triumph glean, gather, and digest gloomy, silent, and tranquil glow, grace, and pleasantness good, gentle, and affectionate gorgeous, still, and warm grace, simplicity, and sweetness gracious, mild, and good gradual, cautious, and well-reasoned gratitude, happiness, and affection grave, disastrous, and wanton gravity, sweetness, and patience gray, monotonous, and uninteresting great, grand, and mighty greed, lust, and cruelty grim, lean, and hungry gross, ignorant, and impudent growth, progress, and extension guide, philosopher, and friend H habits, tastes, and opinions hard, stern, and inexorable harmony, peace, and happiness harsh, intolerant, and austere health, character, and efficiency helpful, suggestive, and inspiring helpless, hopeless, and downtrodden high, lofty, and noble high-spirited, confident, and genial history, philosophy, and eloquence homage, ability, and culture honesty, probity, and justice [probity = integrity; uprightness] honors, riches, and power hopes, aspirations, and longings hot, swift, and impatient humanity, freedom, and justice humble, submissive, and serviceable humor, fancy, and susceptibility I idle, profuse, and profligate ignorance, fear, and selfishness illuminating, chastening, and transforming images, events, and incidents imagination, judgment, and reason immediate, sure, and easy immethodical, irregular, and inconsecutive impatient, inconsiderate, and self-willed impetuous, fierce, and irresistible impracticable, chimerical, and contemptible impulse, energy, and activity inclinations, habits, and interests incoherent, loud, and confusing incomparable, matchless, and immortal inconsiderate, irritable, and insolent indignation, surprise, and reproach indirect, obscure, and ambiguous indolent, dreamy, and frolicsome inert, torpid, and lethargic ingenuity, force, and originality innocence, intelligence, and youth inordinate, excessive, and extravagant insight, knowledge, and capacity insincere, partial, and arbitrary insipid, commonplace, and chattering insolence, injustice, and imposture intelligence, taste, and manners intense, weighty, and philosophical inventions, sciences, and discoveries irksome, painful, and depressing irresolute, procrastinating, and unenterprising irritable, sulky, and furious issues, hopes, and interests J jealousy, exclusiveness, and taciturnity jovial, ready-witted, and broad-gaged joyous, delightful, and gay justice, mercy, and peace K keen, clear, and accurate knowing, feeling, and willing knowledge, skill, and foresight L labors, anxieties, and trials large, rhythmical, and pleasing laughter, ridicule, and sneers lead, attack, and conquer learning, profundity, and imagination legislation, education, and religion levity, indolence, and procrastination libelers, reviewers, and rivals liberating, vitalizing, and cheering liberty, justice, and humanity light, easy, and playful literature, history, and legend lively, careless, and joyous lofty, serene, and impregnable logical, clear, and consistent loitering, heart-sick, and reluctant lonely, sad, and enslaved long, wailing, and passionate lost, ruined, and deserted loud, deep, and distinct love, veneration, and gratitude lucid, lively, and effective luxurious, whimsical, and selfish M magnificent, sumptuous, and stately magnitude, duration, and scope majesty, beauty, and truth malevolence, vanity, and falsehood manly, refined, and unaffected mean, pitiful, and sordid meek, humane, and temperate melancholy, grave, and serious mercy, truth, and righteousness methodical, sensible, and conscientious might, majesty, and power mild, sweet, and peaceable mischief, cruelty, and futility moans, shrieks, and curses mobile, quick, and sensitive modest, sympathetic, and kind molding, controlling, and conforming monstrous, incredible, and inhuman moral, material, and social motionless, staring, and appalled motives, purposes, and intentions mountains, seas, and vineyards moved, swayed, and ruled murder, destruction, and agony mystery, vagueness, and jargon N narrow, precise, and formal natural, innocent, and laudable neatness, order, and comfort necessary, just, and logical neglect, rashness, and incompetence new, strange, and unusual niggardly, sordid, and parsimonious [grudging, wretched and frugal] noble, laudable, and good noise, clatter, and clamor null, void, and useless O obscure, difficult, and subtle observation, discrimination, and comparison obsolete, artificial, and inadequate obstinacy, stupidity, and wilfulness officious, fidgety, and talkative old, absurd, and meaningless one, individual, and integral openly, frankly, and legitimately opposition, bitterness, and defiance oppressive, grasping, and slanderous opulent, powerful, and prosperous organization, monopoly, and pressure origin, character, and aim original, terse, and vigorous overriding, arrogant, and quarrelsome P pain, toil, and privation pale, ugly, and sinister parable, precept, and practise partial, false, and disastrous passion, tenderness, and reverence patient, gentle, and kind peace, order, and civilization pellucid, animated, and varied [pellucid = transparently clear] permanent, true, and real perplexed, tedious, and obscure personal, sharp, and pointed perspicuity, vivacity, and grace [perspicuity = clearness and lucidity] pert, smirking, and conceited pervading, searching, and saturating petty, unsuccessful, and unamiable philosophy, morals, and discoveries picturesque, daring, and potent piety, charity, and humility pillage, arson, and bloodshed pious, patient, and trustful pity, sympathy, and compassion placable, reasonable, and willing [placable = easily calmed; tolerant] place, fame, and fortune placid, clear, and mellow plague, pestilence, and famine plan, purpose, and work pleasant, friendly, and amiable pleased, interested, and delighted pleasure, enjoyment, and satisfaction plenty, content, and tranquillity plodding, sedentary, and laborious poise, dignity, and reserve polished, elegant, and sumptuous politics, business, and religion pompous, affected, and unreal poor, miserable, and helpless pose, gesture, and expression powerful, dazzling, and daring practical, visible, and tangible precious, massive, and splendid precise, formal, and cynical prejudice, dulness, and spite prepossessions, opinions, and prejudices presiding, directing, and controlling pride, passion, and conceit princely, picturesque, and pathetic principles, conduct, and habits progress, order, and happiness prolonged, obstinate, and continued prompt, fiery, and resolute propriety, perspicacity, and accuracy [perspicacity = perceptive] prosaic, dull, and unattractive protective, propitiatory, and accommodating [propitiatory = conciliatory] protests, criticisms, and rebukes proud, reserved, and disagreeable prudence, mildness, and firmness puckered, winking, and doddering pure, honorable, and just purge, brace, and strengthen purpose, intention, and meaning puzzles, tangles, and questionings Q quarrels, misunderstandings, and enmities questions, disputes, and controversies quicken, sharpen, and intensify quiet, unaffected, and unostentatious R raise, refine, and elevate rapid, robust, and effective rapt, emotional, and mystic raptures, transports, and fancies rash, violent, and indefinite readiness, skill, and accuracy reading, reflection, and observation reaffirmed, amplified, and maintained real, earnest, and energetic regard, esteem, and affection relaxation, recreation, and pleasure religion, politics, and literature reminiscences, associations, and impressions remote, careless, and indifferent reparations, restitutions, and guarantees repress, curb, and correct reproach, shame, and remorse reproof, correction, and instruction resentment, hatred, and despair resolute, patient, and fervent resourceful, steadfast, and skilful respect, admiration, and homage rest, respite, and peace restless, discontented, and rebellious restraint, self-denial, and austerity reticent, restrained, and reserved reverie, contemplation, and loneliness rich, thoughtful, and glowing ridicule, sarcasm, and invective [invective = abusive language] rights, powers, and privileges rise, flourish, and decay robustness, elasticity, and firmness romance, adventure, and passion rough, barren, and unsightly rude, sulky, and overbearing rush, roar, and shriek S sacredness, dignity, and loveliness sad, gloomy, and suspicious safe, sensible, and sane sanguine, impulsive, and irrepressible sarcasm, satire, and ridicule satiety, surfeit, and tedium savage, fierce, and intractable scheming, contriving, and dishonesty self-absorbed, conceited, and contemptuous self-conscious, artificial, and affected self-exacting, laborious, and inexhaustible selfishness, coarseness, and mendacity [mendacity = untruthfulness] sense, grace, and good-will sensibility, harmony, and energy sensitive, ardent, and conscientious serene, ineffable, and flawless [ineffable = indescribable] serious, calm, and searching settled, adjusted, and balanced shallow, false, and petty shapes, forms, and artifices sharpness, bitterness, and sarcasm shivering, moaning, and weeping shrewd, artful, and designing shy, wild, and provocative sick, ashamed, and disillusioned silent, cold, and motionless simple, full, and impressive sin, selfishness, and luxury sincere, placable, and generous [placable = easily calmed; tolerant] skill, sagacity, and firmness [sagacity = farsighted; wise] sleekness, stealth, and savagery slovenly, base, and untrue slow, reluctant, and unwelcome smirking, garrulous, and pretentious smooth, sentimental, and harmonious smug, fat, and complacent sneers, innuendoes, and insinuations social, esthetic, and intellectual solitary, sedentary, and lifeless sound, human, and healthy sour, malignant, and envious spacious, clean, and comfortable speechless, motionless, and amazed spirit, vigor, and variety spitefulness, dishonesty, and cruelty splendid, powerful, and enduring startling, alarming, and vehement statesmen, philosophers, and divines steadiness, self-control, and serenity stern, forbidding, and unfeeling stiff, decorous, and formal strained, worn, and haggard strange, dark, and mysterious strengthen, invigorate, and discipline strenuous, intelligent, and alive striking, bold, and magnificent stripped, swept, and bare strong, cool, and inflexible studied, discussed, and debated sturdy, energetic, and high-minded style, manner, and disposition subtle, delicate, and refined successful, energetic, and ingenious sudden, vehement, and unfamed suggestive, stimulating, and inspiring sullen, silent, and disconsolate suppliant, gentle, and submissive [suppliant = asking humbly] surprise, admiration, and wonder suspicious, restive, and untractable swiftness, mobility, and penetrativeness sympathy, service, and compassion T talent, scholarship, and refinement tameness, monotony, and reserve taste, feeling, and sentiment tedious, painful, and distressing temper, pride, and sensuality temperament, character, and circumstance temperate, sweet, and venerable tenderness, loyalty, and devotion terror, remorse, and shame terseness, simplicity, and quaintness theatrical, sensational, and demonstrative thought, utterance, and action threats, cries, and prayers thrilling, dramatic, and picturesque thwart, criticize, and embarrass time, thought, and consideration touched, strengthened, and transformed tradition, prejudice, and stupidity tragic, tremendous, and horrible transparent, theatric, and insincere treachery, envy, and selfishness tremulous, soft, and bright [tremulous = trembling, quivering, shaking] trial, discipline, and temptation tricks, shufflings, and frauds trivial, labored, and wearisome true, lasting, and beneficial tyranny, injustice, and extortion U ugly, scowling, and offensive unbending, contemptuous, and scornful unclean, shameful, and degrading undecided, wavering, and cautious unearthly, horrible, and obnoxious uneasy, overstrained, and melancholy unity, emphasis, and coherence unmodulated, cold, and expressionless unphilosophical, unsystematic, and discursive unscrupulous, heartless, and hypocritical unwholesome, bewildering, and unprofitable unworldly, peaceable, and philosophical upright, kind-hearted, and blameless urgent, tumultuous, and incomprehensible V vague, impalpable, and incongruous vanities, stupidities, and falsehoods venerable, patriotic, and virtuous verities, certainties, and realities vigilant, inveterate, and unresting [inveterate = long established] vigorous, subtle, and comprehensive violent, sinister, and rebellious virtue, genius, and charm visionary, fraudulent, and empirical vital, formidable, and dominant vivid, comprehensible, and striking vulgarity, ignorance, and misapprehension W waddling, perspiring, and breathless want, worry, and woe wasteful, indolent, and evasive watchful, suspicious, and timid wealth, position, and influence wearied, despondent, and bewildered weight, size, and solidity well-proportioned, logical, and sane whimsical, fantastic, and impracticable wholesome, beautiful, and righteous wicked, pernicious, and degrading wild, confused, and dizzy wilful, wanton, and deliberate will, energy, and self-control wisdom, patriotism, and justice wit, fancy, and imagination worthless, broken, and defeated wretchedness, deformity, and malice wrinkled, careworn, and pale |
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