WORDS TO DESCRIBE A PERSON Flashcards
(163 cards)
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SIMPLETON
(syn.) ‘IMBECILE, PUTZ
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A person without the usual ability to use reason and understand
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MUGGLE
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A person who does not have a particular type of skill or knowledge
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SAVANT
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A person with a high level of knowledge or skill, especially someone who is less able in other ways:
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GROUCH
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A person who often complains
(v) complain in an angry way
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ALARMIST
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someone who is considered to be exaggerating a danger and so causing needless worry or panic
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VIXEN
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A female fox, an unpleasant, ill-tempered woman
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MUTT
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a person who behaves in a silly or careless way
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ANTIPODEAN
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a person from Australia or New Zealand
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BLISTER
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Annoying person
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BIZ’NATCH
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Unpleasant person
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BRUTE
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A rough and sometimes violent man
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BUZZKILL
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A person or thing that spoils the mood or the pleasure of others
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CLERGY PERSON
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Religious officials
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CONCUBINE
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A woman who, in some societies, lives and has sex with a man she is not married to, and has a lower social rank than his wife or wives
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CHAPERONE
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Older woman who stays and takes care of younger woman
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CHARLATAN
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A person who pretends to have skills or knowledge that they don’t have, esp in medicine
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CONTENDER
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Someone who competes with other people to try to win sth
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CONTRARIAN
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A person who takes a contrary position or attitude
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CRUSADER
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Someone who makes a determined effort to achieve or stop sth bc of their strong beliefs
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CULPRIT
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A person who’s responsible for a crime or misdeed
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DEPUTY
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A person who is given the power to do sth instead of another person, or the person whose rank is immediately below that of the leader of an org
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DESCIPLE
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A person who believes in the ideas and principles of someone famous and tries to live the way that person does or did
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DISSIDENT
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A person who publicly disagrees with & criticizes their gov
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EPITOME
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A person / thing that is a perfect example of a particular quality or type
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**EUNUCH**
A man who has had his testicles removed
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**FANATIC**
A person who is extremely interested in sth, to a degree that some people find unreasonable
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**GLOBETROTTER**
someone who travels regularly to different parts of the world
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**FIGUREHEAD**
Leader without real power
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**FLIGHTY**
(woman) not responsible, likely to change jobs, bfs, activities
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**FLIMSY**
Easily damaged
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**FUGITITIVE**
A person who is running away or hiding from the police or a dangerous situation
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**GEEZER**
A man often old or unusual in some way
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**GOON**
Violent criminal who's paid to hurt or threaten people
Silly, stupid person
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**HENCHMAN**
Someone who does unpleasant of illegal things for a powerful person
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**IMBECILE**
A stupid person
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**INTERLOPER**
Someone who becomes involved in an activity without being asked or enter a place without permission
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**KOOK**
Mad eccentric person
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**LATCHKEY KID**
Children who are regular left without adult supervision
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**LAYMAN**
Someone who is part of a religious or org but who is not paid or specially trained
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**LUMBERJACK**
A person whose job is to cut down trees to be used in building and industry
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**LAUREATE**
A person who has been given a very high honor bc of their ability in a subject of study
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**CROONER**
A singer, especially a man who sings jazz standards
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**MATADOR**
A man who fights and kills bulls
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**MOBSTER**
gangster
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**MOGUL**
An important or powerful person, esp in motion picture or media industry
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**ONLOOKER**
Someone who watches sth that is happening in a public place but is not involved in it
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**ORACLE**
A female priest who gave people wise but often mysterious advice from a god, or the advice given
Someone who knows a lot about a subject and can give good advice
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**ORTHODONICS**
The job or activity of correcting the position of teeth and dealing with and preventing problems of the teeth
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**PAGAN PERSON**
A person who worships many gods or the earth or nature
A person who's old fashioned + often offensive
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**PASTORAL NOMADS**
People who move periodically and depend on domesticated livestock
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**POISE**
People with poise can handle pressure without showing it
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**PIKER**
The person who avoids getting into difficult or dangerous situations
A gambler Who makes only small bets
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**PUNDIT**
A person who knows a lot about a particular subject and is therefore often asked to give an opinion about it
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**PUNK**
Young person who behaves in a rude, aggressive or violent way
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**PUGILIST**
A boxer or fighter
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**PUTZ**
A fool, worthless person
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**RANDO**
Socially engage in inappropriate behaviour
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**REACTIONARY**
People who opposing politicial or social liberalization or reform
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**'RECLUSE**
A person who lives a solitary life and tends to avoid other people
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**REFLEXIVE**
The person who does the action is also the person who is affected by it
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**SCHMUCK**
Stupid silly person
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**SECRETARY OF TREASURY**
Acts as a principal advisor to the President and the Cabinet on economic issues
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**GENTILE**
A person who is not a Jew
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**WIMP**
a weak and cowardly or unadventurous person
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**SENATOR**
A politician who has been elected to a senate
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**SCROOGE**
Someone who spends a little money as possible and is not generous
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**SHAMANS**
A person regarded as having access to, and influence in the world of good and evil spirits, esp among some peoples of N. Asia and NA
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**SKINHEAD**
Young man of a subculture characterized by close-cropped hair and heavy boots, perceived as aggressive
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**SLUGGER**
A person who throws hard punches
A player who consistently hits for power
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**STICKLER FOR**
A person who insists on a certain quality or type of behavior
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**STUD**
A man who is considered to be attractive and skilled sexually
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**FREE-'LOADER**
| (n)
A person who takes advantage of others' generosity without returning favors
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**BUTCH**
(of a woman) looking or behaving like a man
(of a man) being very strong with big muscles, and behaving in a traditionally male way
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**SCHMUCK**
Stupid silly person
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**SU-PER-'FI-CIAL**
(of a person) never thinking about things that are serious or important
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**'MI-LI-TANT**
People who believe in something very strongly and are active in trying to bring about political or social change, often in extreme ways that other people find unacceptable
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**'TEE-TO-TA-LER**
| ˈtēˌtōdlər
A person who never drinks alcohol
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**SMART-ASS**
Someone who is always trying to seem more intelligent than other people in a way that is annoying
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**'UM-PIRE**
| ˈʌm.paɪr
A person who is present at a sports competition in order to make certain that the rules of that particular game are obeyed and to judge if particular actions are acceptable
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**'VER-MIN**
| ˈvɝː.mɪn
An offensive word for people who are unpleasant in harmful to society
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**VI-GI-'LAN-TE**
A person or a group of people who tries to prevent crime without being officialy recognized
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**WENCH**
A young woman
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**'WAC-KA-DOO-DLE**
Crazy or eccentric kind of person
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**'WHIP-PER-SNAP-PER**
Young inexperienced person who presumptuous or overconfident
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**BIONIC**
Used to refer to a person who has greater powers of strength, speed, etc. than seem to be possible for a human
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**TWINK**
A gay man who is young, slim, and looks like a boy
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**BEERKEEP**
| BARTENDER
prevent something bad from affecting you for a period of time
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**'STEL-LAR**
Stellar people or activities are of an extremely high standard
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**VIR-TU-'O-SO**
| ˌvɝː.tʃuˈoʊ.soʊ
A person who is extremely skilled at something, especially at playing an instrument or performing
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**SLOB**
A lazy, untidy, and often rude person
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**CON-'QUIS-TA-DOR**
| kɑːnˈkiː.stə.dɔːr
One of the Spanish people who travelled to America in the 16th century and took control of Mexico and Peru
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**CEN-'TU-RI-ON**
An officer in the army of ancient Rome who was responsible for 100 soldiers
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**BOZO**
A stupid or foolish person
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**GEEZER**
A man, often old or unusual in some way
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**CRACKPOT**
a person who is silly or stupid
a crazy or strange person
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**DAMSEL**
A young, unmarried woman
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**PESCATARIAN**
Someone who don't eat read meat and poultry, but fish and seafood
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**SPAZ**
Extremely clumsy person
Offensive insult - people with cerebral palsy
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**'PHI-LIS-TINE**
People who deny to see the beauty of art and culture
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**'PRO-VOST**
the senior admisitrative officer in charge of universities or colleges
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**SCAPEGOAT**
a person who is blamed for sth that someone else has done
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**SPENDTHRIFT**
someone who spends lots of money in a way that wastes it
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**DYKE**
Lesbo
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**ORATOR**
Public speaker, or someone who's good at it
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**RACKETEER**
Someone who makes money from illegal activities such as threatening people or selling worthless, immoral, or illegal goods or services
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**SWINE**
A person who you consider to be extremely unpleasant and unkind
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**TWAT**
A stupid or obnoxious person
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**DANDY**
A man who dressed expensive, fashionably and interested in his own appearance
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**INGRATE**
an ungrateful person
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**PATHOLOGIST**
an expert in studying diseases, esp by dissecting dead bodies to study
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**HY-PO-'CHON-DRI-AC**
A person who continuously worries about their health without having areason to do so
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**DOMINATRIX**
the female partner who has control over the opposite sexual partner
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**ACOLYTE**
who assists clergy or liturgical services by performing minor duties
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**MISCREANT**
Someone who behaves badly or doesn't obey the rules
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**ZEALOT**
A person who has a strong opninions about sth and also expects someone to have the same too
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**SKEEZY**
Used to describe a man being strange and unpleasant
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**FULL-STACK ENGINEER**
Engineer who's in chaarge of BOH + FOH programming - design - test - implement
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**APOSTLE**
People who support particular belief or political movements
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**BARRISTER**
lawyer who gives specilized legal advice and can argue a case in both higher and lower court
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**SOLICITOR**
lawyer who prepares cases and give advice on legal subjects and can represent people in lower court
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**COMMISSARY**
a gov official with particular responsibility
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**AMISH**
a Christian religious group that lives in a traditional way in many rural areas eastern US
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**BAILIFF**
An official who confisticate properties of someone who can't pay their debt
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**DEPUTY**
A person who is given the power temporarily while the leader's away
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**POD BOSS**
Most powerful inmate in jail
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**POLYGLOT**
Multilinguistic speaker
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**SMACKHEAD**
a heroine addict
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**MAESTRO**
a man who's skilled at playing and producing music
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**SULTAN**
a ruler in mulism countries
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**BUXOM**
healthy looking woman, with large breasts and good amount of fat
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**CRANK CALLER**
someone makes unpleasant calls to people they don't know
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**STICKLER**
a person who thinks a particular behavior is important and always try to follow it
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**RECLUSE**
a person who lives alone and avoid going out or talkin to people
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**HUSSY**
a rude word for a woman who's thought to be promiscuous
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**GOOFBALL**
silly, naive person
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**SLEAZEBAG**
a person who has low standards of honesty or morals
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**LAYMAN / LAYPERSON**
a person who is not trained or without detailed knowlege of a subject
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**PAUPER**
a brokie
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**BUFFOON**
a clown
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** SCIOLIST**
A person who pretends to be knowledgeable and well informed
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** SCIOLIST**
A person who pretends to be knowledgeable and well informed
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REACTIONARY
A person who is opposed to poli and socio changes / radical changes
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REACTIONARY
A person who is opposed to poli and socio changes / radical changes
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IDEOLOGUE
A person who believes very strongly in particular principles and tries to follow them carefully
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FLIBBETIGIBBET
A silly, talking too much person
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JESTER
A medieval comedian clown
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PUTTY (IN ONE’S HAND)
A person who easily influenced or persuaded
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CELIBATE
an unmarried person
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LEECH
A person who gives attention to someone over a long period to get their money or support
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BONEHEAD
An indiot
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BIMBO
a young attractive woman but not intelligent
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EXPAT
someone who does not live in their own country
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EQUESTRIAN
A professional horse rider
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CONVALESCENT
recovering from illness or injuries
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CONVALESCENT
patients who recovers from illness or injury
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HIGHFLYER
Someone who has a lot of ability and a strong wish to be successful and is therefore expected to achieve a lot
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MEGALOMANIA
someone who has a greed of power and control
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PRODIGAL
someone who tend to splurge without thinking
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'HARBINGER
a person or thing that shows that sth is going to happen soon
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DANDY
a man, esp in the past, who dressed in expensive, fashionable clothes, and very interested in his own appearance
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LITE'RATI
people with a good education who know a lot about literature
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DIS'CIPLE
a person who believes in the ideas and principles of someone famous and tries to live the way that person does or did
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HUMDINGER
Something or someone that is noticeable because it is a very good example of its type
