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  • 121Loquacity — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Loquacity >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 loquacity loquacity loquaciousness Sgm: N 1 talkativeness talkativeness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 garrulity garrulity Sgm: N 1 multiloquence multiloquence much speaking GRP …

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  • 122subjective — [[t]səbʤe̱ktɪv[/t]] ADJ GRADED Something that is subjective is based on personal opinions and feelings rather than on facts. We know that taste in art is a subjective matter... The way they interpreted their past was highly subjective. Ant:… …

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  • 123frivolities — fri·vol·i·ty || frɪ vÉ‘lÉ™tɪ / vÉ’l n. light heartedness, flippancy, foolishness, silliness …

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  • 124frivolity — fri·vol·i·ty || frɪ vÉ‘lÉ™tɪ / vÉ’l n. light heartedness, flippancy, foolishness, silliness …

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  • 125flippant — adjective not showing the appropriate seriousness or respect. Derivatives flippancy noun flippantly adverb Origin C17 (early senses included nimble and talkative , then playful ): from flip1 + ant …

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  • 126impudence — n. Insolence, assurance, presumption, boldness, shamelessness, effrontery, rudeness, impertinence, sauciness, pertness, flippancy, brass, front, face …

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  • 127pertness — n. 1. Briskness, smartness, sprightliness, liveliness. 2. Sauciness, forwardness, impertinence, impudence, flippancy …

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  • 128flippant — adjective not being serious about something that other people think you should be serious about, so that they think you do not care: A hospital is hardly the place for such flippant remarks. flippantly adverb flippancy noun (U) …

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