I was amused to find the following words as MAIN ENTRIES in my thesaurus. These aren't from the old-fashioned, intelligent version but from a popular version of Roget's. I mean...if you know THESE words, do you really NEED a thesaurus in the first place?? And are you REALLY going to look up these words to find a more appropriate synonym? Hm.
agglutinate - join, attach
boffo - successful, record-breaking
callow - inexperienced, immature
dilatory - procrastinating, delaying
extrude - expel, eject
fatuous - stupid, foolish
gormandize - devour, gorge
histrionic - theatrical, dramatic
ignominy - shame, dishonor
jocund - cheerful, lighthearted
knurled - bumpy, knotty
legerdemain - sleight of hand, deceit
mendacious - dishonest, misleading
nefarious - villainous, detestable
officious - meddlesome, intrusive
proclivity - inclination, tendency
querulous - fault-finding, critical
redolent - fragrant, aromatic
sobriquet - nickname, alias
troglodyte - recluse, hermit
urbane - suave, refined
vestigial - obsolete, atrophied
wan - pale, colorless
yammer - whine, complain
zephyr - gentle breeze, light wind
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