blithe

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1. joyous, merry, or gay in disposition; glad; cheerful: Everyone loved her for her blithe spirit. 2. without thought or regard; carefree; heedless: a blithe indifference to anyone's feelings. bellicose - Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious. Synonyms: battleful, combative, contentious Usage: She had always found him to be bellicose and was not surprised when he was expelled from the military academy for his belligerent and violent behavior.
plaintive - Expressing sorrow; mournful or melancholy. Synonyms: mournful Usage: A strain of plaintive music, played on stringed instruments, and flutes, recalled my attention to the hidden shrine. crass - So crude and unrefined as to be lacking in discrimination and sensibility. Synonyms: unrefined Usage: Jenny's strict mother was horrified by the crass behavior of the young man whom her daughter had befriended. virid - Bright green with or as if with vegetation. Synonyms: verdant Usage: The lake was virid with bright algae on the surface. trenchant - Having keenness and forcefulness and penetration in thought, expression, or intellect. Synonyms: searching Usage: His trenchant criticism redirected the debate and gave everyone something new to consider. torpid - Lethargic; apathetic. Synonyms: inert, sluggish Usage: They are always in a torpid state, and are apt to yawn and go to sleep over any intellectual toil disperse - To drive off or scatter in different directions. Synonyms: dissipate, spread, dispel Usage: When it seemed that a riot was about to start, the police arrived to disperse the crowd. teem - To be full of things; abound or swarm. Synonyms: pullulate, swarm Usage: The street teemed with hundreds of policemen who questioned every potential witness. besmirch - Charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone; smear so as to make dirty or stained. Synonyms: asperse, calumniate, defame, slander, denigrate, sully, smear

Usage: He denied everything the tabloids wrote about him, stating that they were only trying to besmirch his reputation. burnish - To make smooth or glossy by or as if by rubbing; polish. Synonyms: furbish, buff, flush Usage: Every afternoon, she would obsessively burnish the floors until the parlor gleamed like an ice rink. mollify - To calm in temper or feeling; to lessen in intensity. Synonyms: appease, conciliate, pacify, placate, soothe, temper Usage: She was so outraged that nothing her friends said could mollify her ange pleonastic - Repetition of the same sense in different words. Synonyms: redundant, tautological Usage: "A true fact" and "a free gift" are pleonastic expressions. halcyon - Marked by peace and prosperity. Synonyms: prosperous, golden Usage: We spent a few halcyon years in New York before the stock market crashed. bumptious - Crudely or loudly assertive; pushy. Synonyms: self-assertive Usage: I was annoyed by his bumptious style of conversation, and wished he would let others speak. indomitable - Incapable of being overcome, subdued, or vanquished; unconquerable. Synonyms: never-say-die, unsubduable Usage: And that the great monster is indomitable, you will yet have reason to know. emollient - Softening and soothing, especially to the skin. Synonyms: demulcent, salving, softening Usage: In the winter, she applied emollient cream to her hands to prevent the skin from cracking.

Cat's-paw - A person used by another as a dupe or tool. Synonyms: pawn, instrument Usage: He was humiliated to learn that he had been made a cat's-paw in the businessman's unscrupulous dealings. bulrush - Any of various aquatic or wetland herbs having grass-like leaves and usually clusters of small, often brown spikelets. Synonyms: cat's-tail, nailrod, reed mace Usage: According to the story, Moses was found in the bulrushes by the pharaoh's daughter. celerity - Swiftness of action or motion; speed. Synonyms: rapidity, quickness Usage: These rapid attentions were bestowed with the celerity and skill of a practiced surgeon. imbroglio - A difficult or intricate situation; an entanglement. Synonyms: embroilment Usage: Hence, as the intelligent reader can foresee, this groom has a part to play in the imbroglio. polyglot - A person having a speaking, reading, or writing knowledge of several languages. Synonyms: linguist Usage: He was a polyglot who spoke nine languages fluently.