| asinine |
silly or willfully stupid. |
| connoisseur |
a person with the experience, expertise, and sense of appreciation to make informed judgments in a fine art or in matters of taste. |
| detonate |
to explode or cause to explode. |
| disperse |
to drive away in all directions; scatter. |
| dissuade |
to urge or convince not to do something. |
| frivolous |
unworthy of serious consideration or merit; trivial or silly. |
| induce |
to persuade or influence, as to a course of action. |
| plausible |
seeming to be true or reasonable; credible. |
| posit |
to propose or suggest as an account of something or as a contribution to an understanding of something. |
| propitious |
offering favorable circumstances or conditions; opportune; promising. |
| referent |
anything in the real world or in the imagination that is symbolized or referred to by a word or other symbol. |
| retinue |
a group of attendants or other employees who accompany a prominent person. |
| satiate |
to glut or fill to excess; oversupply; surfeit. |
| sophomoric |
displaying intellectual pretentiousness or proud confidence about one's knowledge when actually poorly informed or immature. |
| unconscionable |
not restrained or guided by a concern for what is right and just; unprincipled. |